MUMBAI, India, Oct. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced an expansion of its global cloud network
with a new cloud center in Mumbai,
India and a new suite of cloud services for OpenStack. The
Mumbai center further expands
IBM's global cloud footprint, which now includes centers in
London, Amsterdam, Beijing, Hong
Kong, Singapore,
Melbourne, Toronto, Dallas and Raleigh,
NC; all of which opened this year. IBM's new Mumbai center, in addition to the soon to be
opened Paris cloud center
announced last week, are the latest results of IBM's $1.2 billion investment in Cloud Centers in every
major market worldwide.
The driving forces behind the adoption of cloud computing
worldwide include requirements for businesses and governments to
store certain data locally to comply with data residency
regulations, as well as a growing desire for startups to expand
their businesses globally. IBM estimates about 100 nations and
territories have adopted laws that dictate how governments and
private enterprises handle personal data.
In addition to the need for a global network of cloud centers to
address growing client demands, companies also looking for a
secure, dedicated and highly available environment that enables
greater flexibility and an open cloud. To address this, IBM is also
introducing the IBM Cloud OpenStack Services via the IBM Cloud
marketplace. This will enable greater interoperability between
existing IT systems and off-premise cloud workloads and provides
its clients with the means to more easily deploy an OpenStack
cloud.
The new Mumbai IBM Cloud Center is part of IBM's commitment to
continue to grow IBM's Cloud presence around the world. This effort
includes IBM's business consulting division, which features
thousands of cloud experts with deep industry knowledge who are
located around the globe to enable clients to move to cloud. These
experts are dedicated to working face-to-face with clients to
address all of their industry specific needs as they transform to
the cloud era.
"This new Mumbai center is
IBM's latest investment to create the most extensive global network
of cloud facilities in the industry to help clients expand globally
with cloud and tackle data sovereignty issues," said Lingraju
Sawkar, Director, Integrated Technology Services, Global Technology
Services IBM India / SA. "Through this new center, we are able to
help usher businesses into the cloud era while delivering the
levels of security that allow them to experience the benefits of
this new environment and ensure they remain protected."
Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the new, 31,000 square
foot Mumbai facility offers an
array of solutions including proven cloud resiliency services.
These services guarantee customers up times of 99.99 percent across
any IT environment, including traditional IT, public, private, or
hybrid cloud deployments. In the event of an outage, the center's
support team can recover data in minutes to ensure that is has
little to no impact on business operations while going virtually
unseen by customers.
Clients around the world are using IBM Cloud centers spread
across every major market to help them adopt cloud for growth and
innovation.
- Daimler subsidiary moovel GmbH is using a cloud
infrastructure from SoftLayer, an IBM company, for its car-sharing
mobile application, cars2go to allow the company to better serve
its customers around the world by helping them find the least
expensive or fastest way to travel.
- Kona chose IBM Cloud over AWS, Microsoft and Rackspace
-- and has deployed a new cloud-based application development
service on cloud infrastructure from SoftLayer, an IBM company to
help it build dynamic mobile applications that link its customers'
back end systems of record with mobile systems of
engagement and help them expand globally.
- Finzsoft's core and vertical banking applications,
including its Sovereign application, turned to the IBM cloud to
help the financial technology provider offer solutions-as-a-service
to clients as the company expands in Australasia and across the
Asia Pacific region.
With the addition of the new center in Mumbai to its global footprint, IBM adds new
resiliency service capabilities to these clients.
About IBM Cloud Computing
IBM is the global leader in cloud with an unmatched portfolio of
open cloud solutions to enable clients for the hybrid cloud era
with integration, control over data and expertise. IBM Cloud has
helped more than 30,000 clients around the world. Today, IBM has
100+ cloud SaaS solutions, thousands of experts with deep industry
knowledge helping clients transform and a growing global network of
data centers. Since 2007, IBM has invested more than $7 billion in 17 acquisitions to accelerate its
cloud initiatives. IBM holds 1,560 cloud patents focused on driving
innovation. In fact, IBM for the 21st consecutive year topped the
annual list of US patent leaders. IBM processes more the 5.5M
client transactions daily through IBM's public cloud. For more
information about cloud offerings from IBM, visit
http://www.ibm.com/cloud. Follow us on Twitter at @IBMcloud and on
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For more information about the cloud offerings from IBM
Resiliency Services, please visit: http://bit.ly/1cqLDOz
Contact:
Charisse Higgins
IBM External Relations
347-992-8147
cthiggin@us.ibm.com
Anushri Dubey
IBM External Relations
India/ South Asia
Phone: +91-80-4192-4251
Mobile: +91 8095626117
e-mail: anusdube@in.ibm.com
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