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China's largest cloud computing base settled in Nanjing

13:26, August 22, 2011

Edited and Translated by Ye Xin, People's Daily Online

China's largest cloud computing base, the Shuguang Cloud Computing Industrial Base, with a total investment of 400 million yuan, has been settled formally in Jiangning District of Nanjing City, capital of east China's Jiangsu province on Aug. 21.

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility — much like in an electricity grid — over a network, which is typically the Internet.

The Shuguang Cloud Computing Industrial Base is estimated to reach tera-scale computing as well as have a storage capacity of 1 petabyte in three years. The first phase of the project has an investment of 100 million yuan, and its computing scale will reach 50 trillion times per second, with a storage capacity of 200 terabytes. In addition, its computing scale will be promoted to 300 trillion times per second, with a storage capacity of 500 terabytes in the second phase of the project.

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Chen Li at 2011-09-12173.234.147.*: When I think of storing sensitive and confidential information on a mainframe based in China (Cloud), it give me the jitters. There are several issues here.
Chen Li at 2011-09-12173.234.147.*: When I think of storing sensitive and confidential information on a mainframe based in China (Cloud), it give me the jitters. There are several issues here.
PD User at 2011-09-12173.234.147.*: When I think of storing sensitive and confidential information on a mainframe based in China (Cloud), it give me the jitters. There are several issues here.
ming chu at 2011-08-2367.180.91.*: great idea of cloud computering !.....my Chinese friend Mr.Chen and I both have cloud computers....residing in USA , and with the WEB in the cloud , and using our knowledgeof Chinese language , we can reach China instantly .