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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. ^' C- p" z& S+ W' u5 a* i: J! [9 }: V
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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business.6 K4 X3 b/ }6 ~! m. c; N1 s; z) q
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The Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata.0 k p% M5 h, @/ X. y
4 E# e/ O J, m( `; ?Softlayer’s CEO Lance Crosby said in an interview with InformtionWeek the next Softlayer data center sites will most likely be Canada, Mexico, UK and Australia.7 Y4 N, Q8 M# K5 g; X
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IBM Watson will be available in the new Hong Kong facility making it only one of three facilities to provide the business intelligence engine- the other facilities to provide Watson are in London and Dallas. 2 i, h4 p5 H G1 v0 r; m+ y5 N$ l2 u; I/ C2 }
IBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site.! n/ m" R- T" [* g5 G0 W& o
9 J) @- S& C8 c: I' y0 p$ z3 BBlueMix 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. / Z' x9 p0 F7 o$ T8 ? " l; m6 m; j- m1 hIBM 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. 5 s# j: I P; x! \6 u9 `0 r1 p, q5 H
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