Among the lesser-known arms of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding is a business called AliCloud, which operates data centers -- facilities that house computing equipment such as servers.

“With the addition of AliCloud, the Teridion Global Cloud Network now offers an unparalleled Internet experience to an additional 700 million users,” said Elad Rave, founder and CEO of Teridion.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will work with Nvidia Corp. on cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and plans to enlist about 1,000 developers to work on its big-data platform during the next ...