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IBM Opens Cloud Computing Laboratory |
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IBM today opened a new Hong Kong Cloud Computing Laboratory to support LotusLive cloud services, construction has commenced on a state-of-the-art IBM Reliability Level 3+ data center in Auckland, New Zealand, and launched the 'IBM Business Park,' a green data center integrated within Korea's existing Kyobo Data Center in Songdo International City, Incheon. Hong Kong Cloud Computing Laboratory With more than 18 million client seats in its first year, IBM has established an elite team of experts to meet the demand of cloud-based collaboration services. This is IBM's tenth cloud computing lab and the first lab of a major IT vendor in Hong Kong. The new center serves as a world class development facility for Web 2.0, cloud mail and collaboration for businesses of all sizes around the globe. IBM said the lab will support the growth of cloud collaboration by governments and companies at a time when IBM estimates the global cloud computing market to grow at a compounded annual rate of 28 percent from $47 billion in 2008 to $126 billion by 2012. The IBM Cloud Computing Laboratory in Hong Kong is a development and services center, focusing on LotusLive messaging development, testing, technical support and services delivery. The core team has rich experience in architecting and operating secure, scalable and reliable SaaS messaging platforms. LotusLive messaging services start at US$3 per user per month. Data Center in Auckland, New Zealand Construction has commenced on a state-of-the-art IBM Reliability Level 3+ data center in Auckland, New Zealand which is being built to support clients' mission critical applications and operations. IBM will locate the data center at Highbrook Business Park in East Tamaki, a 56,000 square foot facility built to IBM global specifications. The data center will be cloud computing enabled, highly resilient and have the environmental protection advantages of IBM's industry-leading data center design characterised by energy efficiency, green technologies, scalability and the latest power and cooling technologies. IBM Business Park at Korea IBM also launched the 'IBM Business Park,' a green data center integrated within Korea's existing Kyobo Data Center in Songdo International City, Incheon, that is part of the Korean government's goal to build Incheon into an international economic hub. Through the IBM Business Park, IBM will provide a series of IT services including strategic outsourcing, e-business hosting and disaster recovery to more than 20 clients, including Amore Pacific, Iljin and Esquire, which have entered outsourcing agreements with IBM. The Business Park is built with green technology that exceeds the average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) among any Internet data centers in Korea. As Korea's most advanced green data center, it maximizes "green effects" by maximizing energy efficiency the introduction of a local cooling system that minimizes power consumption arising from excessive cooling and the application of a 90-cm thick raised access floor following the analysis of computational fluid dynamics. IBM says these features can reduce thermal energy by more than 10 percent and lower carbon emission by 26 percent. All in a day's work, IBM may say! |
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