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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.( A/ [1 g4 K+ r$ Z
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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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business. ) L3 m" }9 y9 [0 A2 I) S, z: H! G
The Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata. 9 o8 b+ M/ }$ K3 G; H; _, S! a; s; t8 \; P
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.! R" _2 o T7 `: P5 {
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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.0 k& @- A; z R! [! c! B+ t; h1 z
# y: N5 ~9 b9 {& D! c$ f, kIBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site. : {( f0 t( J1 H) ]' m H1 k/ k) Y( o% I+ H. T7 N0 S7 Y
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.. v3 |* i- k+ c% M' [! Y
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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. 9 s6 r0 Q% g) }- f% i* t 6 E! L2 J4 v4 J/ v
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