IBM invests 400 million dollars for cloud computing data Center

Beijing Time August 2 news, according to foreign media reports, IBM announced in Friday, the company will invest about 400 million U.S. dollars for its North Carolina State and Tokyo, Japan's cloud Computing data Center transformation. It is reported that IBM will invest about 360 million dollars for the renovation of the existing building of North Carolina State Triangle Science Park (Research Triangle Park). This includes 95% of the existing building surface reuse, the existing building materials 90% of the two utilization. The new centre is expected to be completed by the end of 2009.　　After the completion of the new center, its mechanical equipment efficiency will be 50% higher than the industry average, equivalent to a reduction of about 31799 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year. IBM's new data center in Tokyo will be linked to the company's 8 other cloud computing hubs in North Carolina State, Dublin and Beijing.　　IBM has the world's largest computer consulting business, its main source of revenue for mainframe services, and in the future will turn to cloud computing services. From the profit model, Google to attract consumers through the Internet application software, Amazon to the entrepreneurs to provide host services, Salesforce.com and other services to provide on-demand software, and IBM is the Real Business computing field of heavyweight players.