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IBM has announced a US$38M investment in a new IBM Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Centre in Singapore, which will provide businesses in India with solutions and services to harness the potential of cloud computing. The new facility will extend IBMs globally-integrated cloud delivery network with centres in Germany, Canada and the United States; and 13 global cloud labs, of which seven are based in Asia Pacific China, India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore.
Scheduled to launch in April, the Centre will make available IBMs cloud services and technology portfolio via the company’s cloud delivery infrastructure. These services are designed to enable clients to reap the benefits of business and IT transformation; increase flexibility and agility; accelerate time to market; reduce costs; and increase security and compliance of public cloud environments.
The first offering to be available at the IBM Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Centre will be from IBM’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud portfolio. It is built on an agile cloud infrastructure and provides rapid access to security-rich, enterprise-class virtual server environments.
“The new Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Centre is a reflection of IBMs focus to invest in technology innovation that delivers value to our clients. The Centre will provide Indian organisations with the best available set of Cloud options to achieve their IT infrastructure ambitions in order to become successful businesses,” said, Ashish Kumar, General Manager, IBM Global Technology Services, India/ South Asia.
“In India, we see a great opportunity for the software development industry and other IT driven businesses to leverage the IBM enterprise cloud offering in order to divert their test and development workload for more productive use. In addition to providing high security standards, the Centres pay-per-use offerings model will help Indian clients minimise capital expenditure and reduce business operational costs. IBMs investment in the Asia Pacific Centre is part of our ongoing global commitment to the Cloud Computing business in support of IBMs 2015 growth roadmap.”