IBM United SoftLayer Global New 15 data centers

"Tenkine Server channel January 17 News" Recently, IBM announced that it will create 15 new data centers around the world, and these data centers will be built on the SoftLayer platform. IBM spent 2 billion on the 2013 acquisition of cloud computing infrastructure provider SoftLayer, while SoftLayer's data center resources were the most valued by IBM. IBM's new data center will be located in Washington, D.C., Dallas, Mexico City, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/33109.html "> 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 says the SoftLayer platform can deliver high-performance services to the region. IBM data centers are focused on corporate customers, which is different from Amazon AWS's orientation toward developers. In terms of technical details, IBM Data Center will contain at least four server modules, each containing 4000 servers. Each module does not rely on other modules, independent of each other, with 99.9% uptime guarantee. Customers can choose a single module, enjoy 99.9% of the normal service, or select multiple modules to further increase service availability.

IBM says the global cloud services market is expected to reach $200 billion trillion by 2020. More and more enterprises choose to use cloud computing. It is a space for imagination to include the Chinese mainland in the list given by IBM. Amazon has landed in China by the end of 2013 and Microsoft Azure is in China before IBM seems to need some action. We get the message that IBM has been announcing the cooperation of the SmartCloud enterprise+ into the mainland of China. IBM announced that it will build data centers in mainland China and Hong Kong, China.