IBM has expanded its cloud computing services in Japan and in the Asia Pacific region, with the opening of a new IBM Cloud Data Center in Japan and a dedicated data center for LotusLive, IBM’s cloud collaboration service.
The company notes that the new facilities will expand its global cloud delivery services that currently serve over 50 countries with centers located in Singapore, Germany, Canada, and the US; and 13 global cloud labs, of which seven are based in Asia Pacific, including China, India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore.
The new IBM Cloud Data Center located in Makuhari, Japan offers SmartCloud enterprise-class services that involve a host of secure managed services, to run diverse workloads across multiple delivery methods, which combines both public cloud and private cloud capabilities.
The data centre will enable enterprise clients in Japan select key characteristics of a public, private and hybrid cloud to meet workload requirements from Web infrastructure to advanced business processes, across various dimenions such as security and isolation, availability and performance, technology platforms, management support and deployment, and payment and billing.
New offerings allow for end-to-end management of service delivery from the server and operating system to the application and process layer.
The new facilities will offer customers with new options to expand production leveraging other workloads like web sites, batch processing, development and test and other initiatives, and reduce deployment time through automation and rapid provisioning.
IBM’s dedicated data center for LotusLive, which will be available later this year, is designed to allow customers in Japan to more easily move to the cloud.
LotusLive provides integrated social collaboration tools that spans across company’s business social network and offers customers with file storing and sharing, instant messaging, Web conferencing and activity management capabilities.
IBM said the Japan data center allows users to share and edit information, host online meetings and manage activities inside and outside company boundaries.
LotusLive will improve network performance and will allow clients to work in a security-rich cloud environment, if they cannot take their data outside the country due to security and regulatory compliance.
