Samsung Heads Toward the DMZ to Challenge Cloud-Computing Giants
- Conglomerate turns to own cloud to keep up with global trend
- Samsung’s forte in hardware like chips offers unique edge
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The best place to put a data center in South Korea, it turns out, also happens to be close to one of the most dangerous in the world.
Barely an hour from the border with North Korea, in what used to be a civilian shooting range, Samsung Group is building a facility with the ambitious goal of challenging well-established cloud-computing providers Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google.