New facility extends IBM’s global cloud delivery capabilities to meet cloud needs of businesses in Asia Pacific.
Global software services and products firm IBM has announced a $38 million (around Rs 170 crore) 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 IBM’s 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 IBM’s cloud services and technology portfolio via the company’s cloud delivery infrastructure.
“The new Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Centre is a reflection of IBM’s 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 security standards, the Centre’s pay-per-use offerings model will help Indian clients minimise capital expenditure and reduce business operational costs. IBM’s investment in the Asia Pacific Centre is part of our ongoing global commitment to the Cloud Computing business in support of IBM’s 2015 growth roadmap.”
According to Chris Morris Director of Cloud Services & Technologies, IDC Asia/Pacific: “The APEJ market for cloud computing services will grow by an average 40% per annum rate through 2014 to reach $4.9 billion. A major driver of this growth has been the new regional data centres which are now emerging to provide the necessary infrastructure for growth of the key cloud service areas. While cloud services have been attractive in the past, concerns about the consistency of the service performance due to the potential impact of network latency and the location of the data have inhibited their uptake for anything that was a critical workload. This increased availability of enterprise-class cloud services will underpin the acceleration of cloud services in APEJ as cloud service shifts from the SMB sector to the large enterprise.”
