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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., S" H6 g) m! c
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The 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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business. , K1 O* R! \4 R4 d+ c/ N, |2 O+ _0 N( u- S
The Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata. ' Z6 h" t/ |- j2 R8 `' c1 l / F% s. C3 s2 I* H. v4 }) ^Softlayer’s CEO Lance Crosby said in an interview with InformtionWeek the next Softlayer data center sites will most likely be Canada, Mexico, UK and Australia. ) U7 _1 O* B' F* u: C$ b1 H* v( g) r8 @" @8 D8 |
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.7 J1 k6 b" R0 L" E, O ]2 N
' y7 Q- R' O# }6 H8 Y6 M t. o1 O) ?2 mIBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site. 5 I7 p2 }. ~4 j. x+ r& @2 d& ^: S ; K! v: z5 q: Y& a7 b$ wBlueMix 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./ r! S3 S& ^3 S0 A" F/ W# n
! y- U5 N8 ]# J* yIBM 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.9 Q: A. d1 a' k, q; e$ E7 V