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9 e, `4 ?0 g; b, E$ M1 TIBM will open a cloud data center facility in Hong Kong for its subsidiary SoftLayer on April 14, according to InformationWeek.* e% [. k# [0 B) v$ n
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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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business. & ~4 O; x! \: h- M/ o: l6 U; M8 N* H2 i7 v
The Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata.- W# x w3 x5 n/ S" w& Y
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Softlayer’s CEO Lance Crosby said in an interview with InformtionWeek the next Softlayer data center sites will most likely be Canada, Mexico, UK and Australia.& T* S+ ~5 {8 d$ l5 G# s
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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. % g9 l7 _" v* u7 z: z * z" U. \$ j X0 _- x1 b1 bIBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site. 0 D" ?0 Y% s* R3 o4 A& d6 U- _3 A8 L$ t; |
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.( @8 s0 K9 O% m$ O/ c
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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.) h& h$ Q) L+ Q& B- p, _
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