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i0 G0 p$ z9 g9 g5 B5 ?IBM will open a cloud data center facility in Hong Kong for its subsidiary SoftLayer on April 14, according to InformationWeek. 7 ], N! s) h$ g" m0 C# `/ v 4 \& H+ x+ _) }2 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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business.- l- S2 t ]; f. z' Y: d: T
! |# q3 g# k& ?- w+ \The Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata.1 J# s1 L7 n. {. ?1 Q$ R$ @. a
8 G1 c( R: b! z7 y8 [; eSoftlayer’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 z2 b! z$ b3 G7 d7 L% @. W) d4 o# F6 O5 e
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.! }) ^" b8 l! K4 T: C
) {. B/ d4 H+ ?, [% J5 [0 qIBM’s BlueMix platform-as-a-service on Softlayer - which was announced last month- will also be available from the Hong Kong site.( r+ t/ I" J$ y! x- G. i# S2 x
8 B3 b6 }% j. q& S( L: T2 jBlueMix 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. " A) ~* M* B% O0 w# g , V, x: |1 |/ U# c# |: _# L6 H) sIBM 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 Y$ _& V4 U: [3 ^6 g1 |! Z5 E! e) D+ d: |