IBM SoftLayer Data Center building next City

"Tenkine Server channel July 2 News" IBM pledged to invest 1.2 billion U.S. dollars to expand the global cloud business, and increase http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13727.html "> SoftLayer the pace of data center construction. Following the formal operation of the Hong Kong SoftLayer Data Centre, a SoftLayer data center in London, UK, will operate services in early July to meet customer data services within the UK. The data center's construction will have more than 15000 physical servers capacity and provide a full range of SoftLayer cloud infrastructure services, making the SoftLayer in Amsterdam and London's data centers complementary.

London is home to the headquarters and financial institutions of many of the world's top giants, and the financial sector is an important business for IBM to expand its market. SoftLayer CEO noted that SoftLayer's cloud service in London and its surroundings has a huge customer base. Through the construction of the London data Center can be fully provided in the localization of services, including all the data privacy, security and control are provided by the SoftLayer platform. It also caters to IBM's strategic transformation of cloud migration to traditional customers.

It is understood that, like the Hong Kong Data Center, SoftLayer provides platforms that include physical bare-metal services, virtual servers, storage, and networks that enable users to create infrastructure environments that require a common cloud, a private cloud, or a hybrid cloud to support the enterprise's most demanding applications and workloads.

Earlier, IBM announced its new SoftLayer data center in Hong Kong, the first of 15 new data centers that IBM planned to build, and the continuation of IBM's commitment to invest $1.2 billion in its cloud computing business in major regional and financial centres around the world, And will expand the enterprise IT operations coverage and capabilities.

SoftLayer became a part of IBM in July 2013 and is now the foundation of IBM's cloud services portfolio, which will grow SoftLayer to 40 data centers in the future as cloud computing requirements reach more than twice times the existing number on five continents. Into the 3721.html ">2014 year, IBM closely around the SoftLayer platform integration of its own software business is accelerating. With IBM's rich software offerings and the SoftLayer platform, IBM's layout of cloud computing and large data markets has been rolled out.