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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. ( ^1 u+ T' M( L 8 D$ `" V5 T/ g. |( S% L) s) ?. rThe 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$1.2bn investment for the expansion of its cloud storage business.* d8 k9 ^/ w: M) i4 U3 h8 C
2 F6 g' t$ A$ \The Hong Kong facility will have capacity for 15,000 servers and will have network connectivity provided by Equinix, NTT and Tata.- X/ d# H# f3 e: N: C: A
N) B6 |8 o8 z) T2 {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.7 {& |7 g; r/ x% n% c( r7 j& y
4 X' U& N8 j* p( b. c; {3 E+ @* yIBM 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.8 Z$ ~7 f; p! N5 }
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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 A7 ^1 H$ `& A0 @- Y
4 n0 v$ E# L9 B2 w$ q: nBlueMix 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. " v8 M Q% G. M6 A 9 p) u3 ~; ~7 v# X' yIBM 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.$ j" B, [7 u1 m( V
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