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6 d7 U9 b, x, t3 f: mIBM will open a cloud data center facility in Hong Kong for its subsidiary SoftLayer on April 14, according to InformationWeek.9 A- F" X) {2 M5 p; x4 j' ]) r( x: F
' E2 R3 A! g* b# c, FThe 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' G6 p, R: H4 [! r e
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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.+ v A: a6 }" c2 t( A
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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.' m, N; h5 _* z. E
. D4 | a( M% I; j* v- |* xIBM 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.5 v, L( D! I. @7 q# q
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IBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site.7 g2 T& u& F- r7 E) t' T5 x# M/ }2 r
' C3 Q, D7 q! 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.5 s6 e {0 e2 U: l% u A0 O
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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.+ {0 i0 N# p3 x. e! q8 u
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