{"id":9873,"date":"2014-01-02T00:22:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T00:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jan\/02\/china-unicom-enters-cloud-race-wo-cloud-service\/"},"modified":"2014-01-02T00:22:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T00:22:40","slug":"china-unicom-enters-cloud-race-with-wo-cloud-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/china-unicom-enters-cloud-race-with-wo-cloud-service\/","title":{"rendered":"China Unicom enters cloud race with Wo-Cloud service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple of weeks have seen a variety of updates from players looking to up their cloudy stake in China, including Amazon and IBM.<\/p>\n<p>Now China Unicom has joined the race, offering a service called Wo-Cloud, according to a report from Web Hosting Daily.<\/p>\n<p>According to the firm&rsquo;s president, Lu Yimin, China Unicom will focus on the IaaS and PaaS area.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;China Unicom will rely on its advantages in network resources, infrastructure, mobile internet technology, scope of customers, and dedicated service,&rdquo; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The firm also announced the launch of two data centres, in Hohhot and Langfang, and introduced the www.wocloud.cn gateway.<\/p>\n<p>The service is based on OpenStack, which has also been in the news in recent times following the announcement of Oracle&rsquo;s sponsorship of the OpenStack Foundation. The technology, developed by Rackspace and NASA, has a dazzling array of sponsors, from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple of weeks have seen a variety of updates from players looking to up their cloudy stake in China, including Amazon and IBM.<br \/>\nNow China Unicom has joined the race, offering a service called Wo-Cloud, according to a report from Web Hosting D&#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-9873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873","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=9873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}