Cloud atlas: A weather forecast on the Chinese cloud industry

Grazed from TheNextWeb. Author: Josh Ong.

We’ve already talked at length about the division between the Chinese Internet and the rest of the world. It’s a schism that has broad-reaching effects on censorship and culture, and it also has a heavy impact on the development of the Chinese cloud industry.

That industry, like its nebulous namesake, is itself vague and undefined. These days it has become such a buzzword that almost anything related to the Internet will have the label slapped onto it. As such, in our survey of the Chinese cloud industry, we’re going to look at several different cross-sections, from back-end computing infrastructure to personal storage…

Cirrus Clouds

To get the forecast for the current state of the cloud in China, I spoke with several members of the industry at companies ranging in size from startups to Internet giants. Everyone agreed that the country’s infrastructure is still a few year’s behind its counterparts in the west…

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