{"id":3522,"date":"2012-09-07T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2352645"},"modified":"2012-09-07T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T15:27:00","slug":"baidu-to-spend-1-6-billion-on-cloud-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/baidu-to-spend-1-6-billion-on-cloud-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Baidu to Spend $1.6 Billion on Cloud Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baidu, China\u2019s biggest PC-based search engine, said Monday in Beijing that it\u2019s going to put upwards of $1.6 billion in a new cloud computing center.<br \/>\nIt declined to give details but the sum it says it\u2019s willing to spend is a powerful lot of money in any currency.<br \/>\nOne report suggests the center will be online in four years and have upwards of three million CPU cores and 4,000PB of storage. It could take Baidu four years to figure out how to pay for such a thing.<br \/>\nObviously it wants a gateway for mobile services such as the online storage it\u2019s already offering. It released free tools on Monday to encourage developers to build apps using its cloud services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2352645\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baidu, China\u2019s biggest PC-based search engine, said Monday in Beijing that it\u2019s going to put upwards of $1.6 billion in a new cloud computing center.<br \/>\nIt declined to give details but the sum it says it\u2019s willing to spend is a powerful lot of mone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}