Clearer skies for foreign cloud services in China?

China's complex and restrictive regulatory framework governing data protection, cybersecurity and internet services has made accessing its vast cloud computing market a highly complicated process.

Global IT companies shifting their business models to focus on the cloud have found it particularly tough to navigate—and enter—the domestic market, and the nation's IT regulator has drafted new rules to clarify the applicable scope of cloud services, the required licenses and qualifications, and the extent to which foreign operators can actually get involved.