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Apple reportedly working with Chinese server vendor to help bring cloud services in-house

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<p>Apple is reportedly working with Chinese server vendor Inspur as it seeks to bring the infrastructure for its cloud services in-house.</p>
<p>Apple currently relies on third-party companies to host its cloud content, most of the capacity currently provided by Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, with Google also <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/16/apple-icloud-google-cloud-platform/" target="_blank">recently joining[/url] the roster. However, the company is said to be working on developing its own data network and infrastructure in a project <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/17/apple-building-own-cloud-infrastructure/" target="_blank">codenamed McQueen[/url].</p>
<p>While part of the motivation will be cost, it was also recently reported that security is another significant consideration, Apple being concerned that servers received from third-parties may have been <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/23/apple-cloud-infrastructure-servers-snooping/" target="_blank">tampered with[/url] prior to delivery …</p>
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