Tech companies built infrastructure for billions to view the Winter Olympics

The Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea will begin tonight, and by the time they’re done, more than 4 billion people will likely have watch the various athletic events.
Alibaba is providing the cloud service and e-commerce for the Olympics, and it is sending several hundred employees to South Korea to handle the operations. The effort is a dry run for China’s turn hosting the Winter Olympics in 2022. And Atos, a French information technology company, handles the IT for the ev