Hey, cloud big three! AI-wielding Huawei says it's coming for you

Re: The world according to Huawei

Kind of interesting that within the past year the Chinese government has knocked out all access to external cloud providers via the great firewall plus some DNS hackery. At least they've done this to the general public - probably companies are still accessing needed cloud services to stay competitive.

And suddenly Huawei announces a cloud service that will work in China. They should be able to get a half a billion signups in short order, and compete with Google and Amazon.

Smart business practice to get your government to force hundreds of millions of customers into your fold. Western healthcare and insurance and banking corporations are old hands at this type of activity. Tech players like Microsoft, Google, and the cable and telco companies have become quite adept at the practice also. Welcome to the big boy league, Huawei.

Re: The world according to Huawei

I've just posted a comment on the oversized quadcopter article which warns against using old-fashioned Cold War attitudes when judging what China is doing. Like it or not China is now a major player in technology and sniping at a company such as Huawei just because they're Chinese and have a funny sounding name is fiddling while (competitive) Rome burns. After all, the only way US manufacturers can compete with them is by spreading FUD -- they're Chinese so invoke 007 circa 1970-something. (Same happened with Kaspersky -- their claim to fame is picking apart the web of malware that the NSA had developed; the only Russian angle was they didn't seem to be making too much of a fuss about it until Snowden blew the lid on it.)

We need to take the Chinese seriously -- not as enemies, though, but as competitors.

Re: Trust - Sooo would you trust China with your data

Depends what data.

If you live in the UK, Blair's extradition treaty with the US says that they can render you to the US at will. They don't even have to have their evidence tested in court. Even John McCain said it was ridiculous.

The Russian and Chinese governments can't do that.

I don't have industrial or commercial secrets to hide; I'm not running anything illegal, my data are innocuous. But I still might want to store them in a country which genuinely isn't interested in me, rather than one where some malicious berk might decide I have enough money to be worth getting over there for some special treatment.

Re: ".....rotating CEO........."

Yes they have 3 who take it in turns as the expectation is that is requires too much for one person to handle continuously... other companies might learn.

Yes I'm sure there is an animated gif for it...