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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. $ j+ E4 }2 }! [* x5 f( A - B# p) o7 _1 p* q2 ^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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business./ g. Q( C1 g( {9 U
6 W' d* ]5 |" D! H/ sThe Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata. & E" O- F# o! U) N* j4 X# H ) a4 V8 {; U5 Q* W; P* q$ ySoftlayer’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.6 V( z' h5 @1 B# p
- ]; F9 G3 v9 H, r# IIBM 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 ]& N9 O |% S8 _
6 p: }/ u& c: mIBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site.# F2 [7 m2 ?) l9 p
) v7 p! Q' o, h4 D+ Y% EBlueMix 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 H* l1 x6 c2 X9 L' O" D8 z: ^% C
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 _5 E) B2 I1 \$ u; }9 E % B+ {7 P1 ]- k& o- I