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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.! K$ I- F) g; g; S; ]3 U
) z1 V, W4 d# QThe 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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business.6 R: q! K s ]7 |( N* l6 u, {# M
5 a8 ^% V0 H, r1 a$ T+ }" CThe Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata.! L" q/ r, K+ P! K1 K I
) E6 c7 h. b" Y# I- R* ]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. " O3 f+ Z$ Q' O, [" J1 b2 o& i. }% i; R5 y* A
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.6 h+ I- C. y( |5 O
+ z3 O* _( U) \# ^9 {( Y% V- YIBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site. Y- k) v, g9 M( M! Q
0 x/ _' G5 q K! d% @3 G* Z0 s5 FBlueMix 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.7 i4 m6 C2 H1 Q% l
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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.1 h9 v9 N! C E7 Q; D a
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