{"id":1761,"date":"2016-11-22T01:42:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/ibm-expands-its-uk-presence-with-4-new-data-centers.html"},"modified":"2016-11-22T01:42:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:42:22","slug":"ibm-expands-its-uk-presence-with-4-new-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/ibm-expands-its-uk-presence-with-4-new-data-centers.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM expands its UK presence with 4 new data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"


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IBM<\/a> today announced that it is launching four new data centers in the U.K. This brings IBM\u2019s total data center footprint in the U.K. to six, in addition to 16 other locations across Europe.<\/p>\n

This is yet another example of the company\u2019s increasing infrastructure investment. The first of these new U.K. locations in Fareham will go online in December, with the other three U.K. locations launching next year. As an IBM spokesperson told me, IBM isn\u2019t building its own data centers, though. It\u2019ll lease raw space and build out its own infrastructure (electrical, networking, compute, storage, etc.) in these leased spaces.<\/p>\n

The last new data center IBM opened in Europe was its Oslo location, in September, but the company also recently expanded its presence in Asia with the launch of its Korean data center in August. In total, IBM\u2019s cloud services are now available in 50 data centers.<\/p>\n

IBM is betting on a number of different brands for these data centers. Its Watson cognitive services, for example,\u00a0are only one of hundreds of different services that run in its data centers. Under the SoftLayer brand, it also offers more basic cloud servers and storage solutions, as well as its Bluemix<\/a> platform as a service offering. But there is also the OpenStack-based Blue Box<\/a> private cloud as a service and a plethora\u00a0of other services<\/a> that run on those different platforms.<\/p>\n

Looking at IBM\u2019s cloud portfolio can quickly become overwhelming, but\u00a0it\u2019s also driving\u00a0a good bit of IBM\u2019s revenue. In its third quarter, cloud revenue grew to $12.7 billion. In the U.K., its marquee customers include the likes of Wimbledon, Dixons Carphone, Shop Direct, National Express and, as the company announced today, tour operator Thomson.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that IBM\u2019s second new data center in the U.K. will operate out of an Ark data center. Ark Data Centres<\/a> is a join venture between the U.K. government and the public sector. This\u00a0will likely increase IBM\u2019s footprint in the public sector in the U.K., as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy adding four new Cloud data centres in the UK, IBM is giving local businesses an easy route to the cloud, helping them quickly innovate and respond to market demands,\u201d said Robert LeBlanc, senior vice president of IBM Cloud, in a canned statement. \u201cIBM is continuing to invest in high growth areas, offering clients higher-value cloud data services such as Watson and Blockchain running on our cloud infrastructure that delivers world-class scalability, performance and security.\u201d<\/p>\n

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