Samsung Turns Its Gaze North to Challenge Cloud-Computing Giants
Samsung Group is building a data center not far from the border between South Korea and North Korea with the goal of launching a cloud service that will take on giants like AWS and Azure
• The smartphone market is slowing and the boom in memory chip prices is expected to come to an end
• But the cloud market is growing, and arms of Samsung already make key cloud infrastructure parts, such as data storage
• Samsung is targeting large enterprises that use multiple cloud providers with a service that lets them manage data like it was a single cloud