IBM spent 1.2 billion dollars to expand cloud services to promote a-share concept unit

Technology giant moves frequently, following Google has just announced a huge purchase of smart home equipment vendors, IBM has also been a big new data center to expand cloud services. Analysts believe the news is expected to promote a A-share cloud computing concept stocks. Beijing Times reporter Wang Haojiao intern reporter Dong Xiaoxue-event IBM New 15 Center According to foreign media reports, IBM recently announced that it will spend more than 1.2 billion U.S. dollars on five continents to create 15 new data centers to expand cloud services, covering new customers and markets. IBM's new data center will be located in Washington, D.C., Dallas, Mexico City, mainland China, Hong Kong, China, London, Japan, India and Canada. IBM also plans to create new data centers in the Middle East and Africa in 2015. IBM said the investment would increase the volume of IBM's data center to 40 this year, with its cloud services company SoftLayer's cloud storage space one-fold. IBM also says the company will use SoftLayer network hosting technology when delivering cloud services. Since the acquisition of SoftLayer, IBM Cloud Services has added 2,400 new customers. -Analysis to promote cloud computing industry "IBM, as the world's leading IT companies to expand cloud services, will be the cloud industry to play a driving role." "The advent of cloud computing has far-reaching implications for the IT industry," said Shing, an analyst at Datong Securities. At present, the network equipment business Huawei, the application software business Ufida, Kingdee, internet manufacturer Ali, mobile operators and so on are actively implementing cloud computing strategy, the domestic cloud computing industry development prospects optimistic. In addition, the national policy for the development of cloud computing industry also has a big push role. Relatively optimistic about emerging software, services and content-centric applications, hardware vendors and traditional software vendors or impacted. But he also cautioned that the corresponding stocks would be under pressure once industry development fell below expectations. -Invest in multiple company layout cloud services reporters learned that last July 31, the IBM Public Cloud service announced its first foray into China, and the capital Online signed a long-term strategic cooperation agreement public cloud. Public data show that 263 of the equity capital online, the move also caused 263 stocks rose. Liu Nao Yan, the first venture investment consultant, believes the future of the capital's online and IBM cooperation will be unusually bright. For IBM, Public Cloud solutions and server deployments are mature products with no application risk and strong technical support. It is also understood that, such as treasure Letter software, Rongzhilian, etc. are involved in cloud services.