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Cloud Computing in China: Chinese To Get E-Commerce Clouds

It is expected to cost roughly $15 million once construction starts this year
By Maureen O'Gara
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January 7, 2009 05:05 AM EST
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Alisoft, the software subsidiary of Alibaba.com, the big Chinese B2B e-commerce portal that Yahoo owns a piece of, has cut a strategic cooperation deal with the municipal government of Nanjing to build China’s first “e-commerce cloud computing center.” It is expected to cost roughly $15 million once construction starts this year.


The company also intends building cloud centers in other cities to “provide e-commerce services to domestic users as well as computing, storage and network services,” according to a Chinese press report that appears on Alibaba’s web site.

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Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.

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