' g4 D4 e1 O* m6 d-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ) M: A Q$ T0 `. O # g( j/ a% _: _2 u3 K; ^4 C# W6 hIBM will open a cloud data center facility in Hong Kong for its subsidiary SoftLayer on April 14, according to InformationWeek. 4 L& W8 l- @4 h3 g! N 9 W/ @4 ]: R/ q# t5 ]1 T g5 oThe 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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business. ; T3 @5 L, x9 X+ G2 G: N! d% ^, w Y7 l( }6 N- ?7 h7 y F
The Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata. " x5 }$ {$ q1 t5 b* P5 e7 |1 r4 j5 ~( q1 ^
Softlayer’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. 8 M2 E* o. s1 R5 J9 L: ]: A. J6 @7 N) R. n- {
IBM 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.' Q8 g) i, d( U7 ?
0 `# S& R1 k# d( R$ ]3 a; vIBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site.3 b0 f! y+ S. \! q- ~ }
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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. : l4 j8 K3 r; z( E) X2 }) ^2 u7 e 9 K8 d7 G5 S4 O% s; R, N) IIBM 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. $ R. v5 _& d' U- W, ~, v+ [* @/ y* J& w8 B
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