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. X( C8 } b2 D& DIBM will open a cloud data center facility in Hong Kong for its subsidiary SoftLayer on April 14, according to InformationWeek.1 t. I! M/ h$ R ?- n# A, v
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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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business. % c9 l6 v: V R( L& F3 C! C$ h7 T& C* ~ " Z1 F( s5 H4 i5 bThe Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata. 5 ?2 S( B. F5 k+ r2 i 1 W: f, J8 i6 ESoftlayer’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.9 h3 e9 ]+ D4 B2 a; J
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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. 8 U6 V7 \; G3 m7 K; {6 ?% e/ Y+ }" G$ f9 `; y! f* M; r
IBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site.0 f* T$ d! B) ]( R; H
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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.# \4 h4 k+ F6 f: M4 O1 C
+ u; j# N# R3 ] |- P" [7 ?% xIBM 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. 7 H# ~2 O U1 e* Z% ^ 7 R+ V, h. m7 [* `
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