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" X" g9 ]9 x- aIBM will open a cloud data center facility in Hong Kong for its subsidiary SoftLayer on April 14, according to InformationWeek. ( r+ m$ {- Y d" e- p 4 g& {/ q" t/ m& V8 p" U u FThe 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.( w; s! p d9 O& ]! S7 X
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The Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata.3 ]+ \: W' A# S# C4 w2 W
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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. 2 Q4 a; l( o" C r4 ? L* r& e& X6 T, @; [
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. ' [9 \# s9 s2 f" v) H! { . N2 N3 d. R+ o& e5 m U: v1 BIBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site.) F( D2 c9 b5 r) a2 A- ]
& b( i( q& U' _& D! ]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.# u) r# S+ A9 x1 ~/ ^" h/ h5 e4 T
" w C; A3 F! l* g1 K4 p! ?2 qIBM 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. , @0 R: s" v1 [ B% B" S7 a0 L8 x
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