Public cloud services help SMEs boost infrastructure automation

Rising labor and technology costs are prompting China's small and medium-sized enterprises, including startups, to increasingly rely on public cloud services for infrastructure automation.

Cloud computing - internet-based servers, storage and applications - offers infinite storage capacity, easy accessibility and transfer of data that can increase productivity at an affordable price tag, which makes it an invaluable tool for SMEs.

According to a survey conducted by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the total size of the public cloud services market - the tech base for automating infrastructure services - in China was 26.48 billion yuan ($3.88 billion) in 2017, up 55.7 percent from the size in 2016. The overall market is expected to touch 90.26 billion yuan by 2021.