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The cloud units of Alibaba and Baidu have been summoned by authorities in China to discuss fraud and cybersecurity. -
Separate reports today by Canalys and Synergy Research Group show that spending on cloud infrastructure is going up by about 35% a year to US$40 billion in the first quarter of 2021.
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China’s spending on cloud infrastructure has grown 62% year-on-year to reach $5.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020, with three companies having almost three-quarters of the business.
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According to Q2 figures from Synergy Research Group Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Alibaba are leading the in Asia-Pacific (APAC) cloud market.
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Nokia has won two contracts with China-based webscale giants to provide optical data centre interconnect (DCI) infrastructure, which the company said “consolidates our presence in the webscale market in China”.
