By Christian Molinari
bna.com
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has committed US$1.2bn to expand its cloud footprint and open 15 new datacenters worldwide, with Mexico City being one of the first to be launched, the company announced in a release.
The plan is to have datacenters in all major geographies and financial centers throughout the world, with plans to also expand in the Middle East and Africa in 2015.
"This year IBM plans to deliver cloud services from 40 datacenters worldwide in 15 countries and five continents globally, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia," the Big Blue said.
The 15 new datacenters - which are in locations including China, Washington DC, Hong Kong, London, Japan, India, Canada and Dallas - will be added to IBM's existing 12 datacenters worldwide, as well as the 13 datacenters it acquired with the US$2bn purchase of cloud computing infrastructure company SoftLayer in July last year.
With this move, IBM is establishing SoftLayer as the foundation of its cloud portfolio, in order to provide a scalable base for the global delivery of cloud services within IBM's middleware and SaaS solutions.
The business case can be made for bringing core applications to the cloud when a company lacks the necessary infrastructure or HR skills to keep them on premises, SoftLayer COO George Karidis previously told BNamericas. And while reducing capex and employing cloud services under opex make a compelling case for adoption, cloud deployment is more about how to get new products and services out to market faster.
The global cloud market is set to grow to US$100bn by 2020, IBM noted.
The plan is to have datacenters in all major geographies and financial centers throughout the world, with plans to also expand in the Middle East and Africa in 2015.
"This year IBM plans to deliver cloud services from 40 datacenters worldwide in 15 countries and five continents globally, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia," the Big Blue said.
The 15 new datacenters - which are in locations including China, Washington DC, Hong Kong, London, Japan, India, Canada and Dallas - will be added to IBM's existing 12 datacenters worldwide, as well as the 13 datacenters it acquired with the US$2bn purchase of cloud computing infrastructure company SoftLayer in July last year.
With this move, IBM is establishing SoftLayer as the foundation of its cloud portfolio, in order to provide a scalable base for the global delivery of cloud services within IBM's middleware and SaaS solutions.
The business case can be made for bringing core applications to the cloud when a company lacks the necessary infrastructure or HR skills to keep them on premises, SoftLayer COO George Karidis previously told BNamericas. And while reducing capex and employing cloud services under opex make a compelling case for adoption, cloud deployment is more about how to get new products and services out to market faster.
The global cloud market is set to grow to US$100bn by 2020, IBM noted.
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