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Regulatory compliance is a critical consideration when transmitting and storing data. It becomes exponentially complex as different countries have different laws around data residency. This is especially true for businesses wanting to operate in China because of strict internet and privacy laws. Providing internet content To China is a challenge, but it is not impossible to overcome. To…

This Friday, Zenlayer’s President & CEO will be speaking on innovation and entrepreneurship in China and the United States at MIT China Innovation & Entrepreneur Forum (CHIEF). Founded in 2011, MIT-CHIEF is a not-for-profit student organization that promotes intellectual exchanges and collaborations between China and the United States in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Trading Technology with China…

With standard telecommunication structures failing to keep businesses and consumers connected, the need is growing for a technology to bring various types of communications together as one.

This is where SD-WAN implementations are coming into play. This technology is changing how even the smallest businesses connect and communicate with customers and other businesses.

Enterprises throughout the world are turning to SD-WAN to reduce latency, improve reach and expand their businesses. By 2020, it’s expected that this industry will grow to over $6 billion in revenues, making it important to learn from these early adopters and see if it’s right for your business.

Just as businesses start committing to the cloud, another trend starts to emerge – edge computing.

Right now, edge computing is trending in North America for a variety of reasons. As with all technology, moving to the edge is simply the next evolution from the cloud.

While edge computing and cloud computing will work hand-in-hand, businesses are starting to find that for some things, closer data processing is the better choice.

Reaching the Chinese marketplace is likely a lucrative prospect for enterprises like yours offering streaming video or mobile services. While you’ve perhaps made inroads into this, you’ve probably fought the firewalls China uses to block specific content. To get around this, many businesses now use VPN’s, or virtual private networks.

Despite many VPN’s operating in China lately, a recent dramatic crackdown took place. This could soon change how companies effectively send content without using more technical means.

This news might throw your own business into a quandary after depending on VPNs to get mobile and video services to Chinese citizens. What does it mean for the future of VPNs and unfiltered content there?

There is some hope, mostly through other technological options.

If you care about your ecommerce business, you’re in it for the long haul—not just growth in the next quarter, or the next year—but growth over the next 20 years. And that means finding new markets for your online products, domestically, but also globally.

Phenomenal Internet Growth Southeast Asia is the fastest growing Internet region in the world.  According to a 2016 report released by Google and Temasek, Southeast Asia’s Internet users are poised to grow at a 14% CAGR over the next five years. Philippines, the second most populous country in Southeast Asia, enjoys an extraordinary Internet growth…

Cloud AI developer CloudMinds has partnered with Zenlayer to power its artificial intelligence engines in the cloud.

“AI is poised to transform our lives in almost every way, from healthcare to retail to entertainment,” said Joe Zhu, Founder and CEO of Zenlayer. “We are excited to assist CloudMinds in reaching its goal of developing the first humanoid robot by 2025.”

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we discussed how to determine if you need server hosting in China and the network/data center landscapes in China.

Here in Part 3, we will explore additional factors to consider when choosing a data center in China.