Amazon.com has opened an online presence on rival Alibaba’s Tmall superstore, according to Reuters and other outlets citing an Alibaba spokesman. are both prodigious online retailers and rivals and both are eying the other’s… Read more »
U.S. cloud companies see China as a huge opportunity. Now Big Blue is partnering with Tencent Cloud to bring cloud and SaaS business applications to that market. Read more »
Beijing UnionRead Information Technology will give HP the local presence needed to build and operate OpenStack-based clouds for Chinese businesses. Read more »
Another wrinkle arises in Microsoft’s already complicated relationship with China: The government has reportedly banned the use of Windows 8 by its employees. Read more »
… but they’re forging ahead anyway. In their expansion mode they will also face growing competition from local providers, especially in China. The Week in Cloud. Read more »
… or at least the year we learned about it. In this week’s Structure Show we discuss the news avalanche touched off by Edward Snowden’s disclosures. Read more »
Christmas week was pretty slow — except for major cloud announcements out of China, oh and Edward “the gift that keeps on giving” Snowden issues his Christmas warning, er message. Read more »