" d3 r+ l3 c/ C/ KIBM will open a cloud data center facility in Hong Kong for its subsidiary SoftLayer on April 14, according to InformationWeek. 8 w8 `3 b$ V: `8 w1 V# j2 X 0 f- Y' c W" i' T+ @' h; AThe 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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business. ! Z* f9 v9 B$ Y- E% H0 @% M. I2 a# v* s) w- z
The Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata.1 \7 d! P) O: X+ ~6 L7 D
% t( E) `3 ~( p2 b2 V7 mSoftlayer’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. ' P3 Y( V% f, h" u& Y& p" s* O$ s( `, u6 n! c: q
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.! z: B$ M7 F3 j5 ~: V6 U
1 t3 v/ c& ]0 R/ UIBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site.( T- u9 L' |7 t8 Y
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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.) \- R4 }6 [$ C! J: A/ {: z( {
/ ]& [' J, D6 \$ x0 P3 A, NIBM 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.# M8 A* K; b5 [) R$ }. p
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