Shanda (NASDAQ:SNDA) has flipped the switch on its Grand Cloud services, aimed at China’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), and which is modeled on the successful Amazon Web Services.
Its Grand Cloud platform – at grandcloud.cn – will provide remote computing and cloud-based services, for a fee, in a manner that Shanda says is more reliable, secure, and faster than a more old-fashioned business hosting set-up.
At the moment, Shanda is offering its SME clients five distinct services on its cloud platform: cloud-based hosting, storage, cloud-based hard-drive back-ups, database, and monitoring. A sixth service, MongoIC, will roll out later, and thus offer a sophisticated documents database as well.
Shanda, like Amazon, is aiming its cloud platform at companies who want to implement client-side applications, as well as firms needing more conventional web services.
It’s not clear how much extra server horsepower Shanda is employing for its new Grand Cloud, but as the distributor of some of China’s biggest-name online role-playing games (MMORPGs), Shanda is no stranger to massive bandwidth needs.
Shanda recently began pushing more into the realms of pure social media – aside from its online games – when it tested and unveiled a Twitter-clone microblogging service named Tuita.
[Source: TechWeb]
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