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IBM will open a cloud data center facility in Hong Kong for its subsidiary SoftLayer on April 14, according to InformationWeek. 3 I9 [* O. ]* T) R' @ % E. g' g" t) n0 zThe opening of the Hong Kong facility will mark the first of 15 data centers IBM said it is building throughout the year as part of a US$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business.# T: Y) n- y$ M, m4 r# G
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The Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata.! D0 P6 }' l% n& n4 f! q3 T3 k1 m2 J
5 p2 V4 C" s( y( n& Q$ ~ Y; KSoftlayer’s CEO Lance Crosby said in an interview with InformtionWeek the next Softlayer data center sites will most likely be Canada, Mexico, UK and Australia.0 S+ b) Y- l: J' k8 N
. K' Y3 D& o1 ?9 }2 o( N3 C& O& g1 DIBM Watson will be available in the new Hong Kong facility making it only one of three facilities to provide the business intelligence engine- the other facilities to provide Watson are in London and Dallas. 1 F% Y9 u* T' O1 }! i) C + m: L( U5 P" nIBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site.& w3 f) v0 p2 M. l+ Y& s% I
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BlueMix is an implementation of IBM’s Open Cloud Architecture, leveraging Cloud Foundry to enable developers to rapidly build, deploy, and manage their cloud applications, while tapping a growing ecosystem of available services and runtime frameworks.# I1 v9 v. I9 T3 ?2 I
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IBM said it will follow flexible pricing schemes as it deploys BlueMix, allowing customers to consume it by the hour, by the month, or by the seat. 7 u, z7 G6 y% i6 U# | - b+ X6 X8 j" [ j9 `
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