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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.$ J8 D9 s2 W( X" C+ N1 v! ]" @
9 O i5 m; {6 ]* _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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business. ( z+ o' g- J9 J8 K3 B9 C) H5 F" S: v4 L- s# L
The Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata.% O' l3 m8 E4 a. J/ R. U: w( Q
+ a% V- C! ]. P1 _8 r2 S2 L' XSoftlayer’s CEO Lance Crosby said in an interview with InformtionWeek the next Softlayer data center sites will most likely be Canada, Mexico, UK and Australia., g- i* E# C& E& P' e5 g
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IBM Watson will be available in the new Hong Kong facility making it only one of three facilities to provide the business intelligence engine- the other facilities to provide Watson are in London and Dallas. " @! i% E5 c8 ~" i4 V% b' W, }! d0 T% p( I1 J; ~
IBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site.: Q u9 M0 s1 N4 T
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BlueMix is an implementation of IBM’s Open Cloud Architecture, leveraging Cloud Foundry to enable developers to rapidly build, deploy, and manage their cloud applications, while tapping a growing ecosystem of available services and runtime frameworks. 2 L0 L$ F! ^2 p" `. n' ]1 f4 b5 e' F& [
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. x2 A* n: n5 ^ `3 @( {0 y& w9 x& t1 a
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