{"id":8864,"date":"2013-09-16T23:24:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T23:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/sep\/17\/why-chinas-cloud-computing-ecosystem-vital-crossroads\/"},"modified":"2013-09-16T23:24:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T23:24:05","slug":"why-chinas-cloud-computing-ecosystem-is-at-a-vital-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-chinas-cloud-computing-ecosystem-is-at-a-vital-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Why China\u2019s cloud computing ecosystem is at a vital crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Due to its sheer size and economic power, China has the potential to be a huge cloud computing market. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But there are many obstacles to overcome. A new report examines these problems and the relationship between China and the US, whilst a big Chinese telco has announced overseas cloud expansion. Where now for China and the cloud?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A report released earlier this month on behalf of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCESRC) has warned of potential security concerns if the US consumer market for Chinese cloud computing services grows.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, prepared by Defense Group Incorporated, noted in particular the inherent risks of collaboration between foreign firms and Chinese companies offering cloud services, jeopardising the foreign partner&rsquo;s information security.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the report is quick to ensure the security problems of public clouds aren&rsquo;t used as a brush to tar China unnecessarily.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If Chinese public cloud infrastructure &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to its sheer size and economic power, China has the potential to be a huge cloud computing market.<br \/>\nBut there are many obstacles to overcome. A new report examines these problems and the relationship between China and the US, whilst a big Chinese t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}