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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.$ }$ ]+ _ v9 m( I
! Z& A; f- r: c( E! B5 E3 wThe 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 F9 \+ F5 {
F; t7 Q; m5 j! k/ iThe Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata. ) v0 \, r" r% Y, N# t4 B+ v5 l! E/ D% w6 D2 N I# n
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. 1 b" y, ?9 s5 f: X4 F) b 9 B5 S% @7 F/ F* R3 qIBM 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.( H! `) u* V1 |! a! u
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IBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site. . D0 H% p! T2 _* z8 x; r; V" c+ L & P+ X. N* Y4 p3 y. }8 p/ 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.; _3 S3 Z% g2 k5 u" s
7 |- U/ G# o) ]2 KIBM 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. 5 `5 ?/ I% @9 H! W& ~* i+ h , {. K" _6 O4 ]; L1 ] A: T