IBM Drives Cloud, Big Data, Services Into Emerging Markets

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Darryl K. Taft.

IBM announced a series of wins that indicate wider adoption of Big Blue’s cloud, big data and services solutions in emerging markets.  In a series of recent wins, IBM demonstrates how its cloud technology, systems, storage and outsourcing services are helping organizations worldwide – particularly in emerging markets — to make a smooth transition into the digital era, harness big data and improve their overall infrastructure.

IBM recently announced that Capitalonline Data Service Co. (CDS), one of China’s leading Internet data center (IDC) service providers, tapped Big Blue to develop an infrastructure for delivering enhanced cloud solutions. As part of a multi-million dollar engagement, IBM will build and manage CDS’s public cloud service based on IBM SmartCloud technology…


As one of the earliest IDC service providers in China, CDS entered the cloud computing market in 2009 to provide cloud, datacenter and value-added IT services to clients in government, finance, entertainment and other industries.  “CDS has made a long-term development strategy for cloud, and one of the important aspects of the strategy is to adopt the world’s leading cloud computing technologies,” said CDS CEO Qu Ning, in a statement. “IBM is a leading provider of enterprise-class cloud services globally, with a deep understanding of the Chinese market. With this collaboration we will be able to offer organizations superior public cloud services and help them achieve business innovation and transformation.”…

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