: w" H8 d1 Q% ~8 o. C{:soso_e146:}如果开了就赶紧把论坛迁过去 % N. _0 l1 |3 M/ N- I1 o' s3 G2 j9 K6 Y
# ]1 y$ Y- q2 A' q3 E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * D$ B. q& D$ a: s) h$ v ' @+ E* f2 u" Q2 V9 Q PIBM will open a cloud data center facility in Hong Kong for its subsidiary SoftLayer on April 14, according to InformationWeek. 6 O- z( W+ S& q1 R) C1 Q3 G/ L 8 u. ^, f/ {3 P% 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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business.' ^' J& S+ A" D2 B. i; Y
: b/ q4 m- @# M$ X8 ]2 ~6 S" ?The Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata. 6 f3 l2 |! i4 p* V7 q4 a9 q) a: C+ }9 [
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.# N3 U* Q5 A, I; b& N% h o
9 [' T- W% `9 tIBM 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./ {; {4 i9 {; K9 N6 n: N3 A
5 ]& {$ t4 U* F, G) d+ sIBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site. / m/ U; `) @2 ^ F0 O# ~ 1 P' K# D# e# J% n- qBlueMix 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. 4 T: B- U% A# ~, u1 P% Q; s ' b5 C2 T( \# W) { aIBM 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. # p; i7 c8 Z9 Y1 ?1 n- c7 b1 o. U6 C0 p# I