IBM will open London data centre in July in SoftLayer cloud computing expansion
June 30, 2014
Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Daniel Robinson.
IBM’s SoftLayer cloud division is due to launch an additional data centre in London as part of a $1.2bn global expansion that will also see Paris and Frankfurt added later this year. The firm also said its BlueMix development platform is now out of beta and generally available from SoftLayer.
The opening of the new data centre is part of an expansion programme that IBM announced at the start of 2014, which will see the IT giant deliver cloud services from 40 data centres worldwide in 15 countries across the globe by the end of the year. The London data centre, which was due to be operational by the end of June, will now come online sometime in July, IBM said. It will deliver additional capacity for IBM SoftLayer cloud services, and its location near Chessington places it close to key customers in the City of London, according to the firm…
Steven Canale, SoftLayer co-founder and now vice president of Global Sales, said: "London has the headquarters of about a third of the biggest companies around the world, so it is obviously very fertile ground for many enterprise businesses, but this is part of our overall $1.2bn expansion, so we’re not just building out here in London, it’s around the globe."…
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