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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. ) r. [0 P2 i, \! t' \9 ?- J4 U/ w$ D2 c0 r9 A! e) a
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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business. - v! S# `- [0 L' F 3 f2 {( {! L+ _: K+ B5 ~6 JThe Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata. . u" l9 |$ H( u: Y9 m ! j! O3 g. s5 l8 _) L2 q. dSoftlayer’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.: W: d/ u* u" [; `/ w
+ S& w/ e. q) E, R7 zIBM 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.* y3 ]/ s: S1 v% T9 e
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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.8 b/ S/ q+ _( n) a
5 M: c0 e' o. S# c' V! J2 aBlueMix 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. : u- f+ ?) r6 i1 }# Y. l: z0 f
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.; ~$ n3 C) S' \5 A
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