China and the Cloud: Revising Culture to Reap New Business “Access your information from anywhere.” This is one of the primary tenets of marketing for cloud computing — entice consumers with the freedom to work, or play, wherever they roam. Selling such expansiveness should hit a snag in a nation that underscores authoritarian control, like — as if you couldn’t guess — China. New-fangled ideas about liberating people, inherent to the cloud’s nature, wouldn’t appear likely to score a home run in the People’s Republic. Yet in fact, cloud computing has ignited China’s never-ending need to be number-one. Last time,
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China and the Cloud: Revising Culture to Reap New Business
by Jeff Norman on December 20, 2011
in Cloud Computing, Computing, Invest, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Trends
