IBM has launched IBM Business Park, a green data centre integrated within Korea’s existing Kyobo Data Centre in Songdo International City, Incheon, as part of the Korean government’s goal to build Incheon into an international economic hub.
Through the new IBM Business Park, the company will provide a series of information technology (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.
According to IBM, the data centre has been built to enable improved service for customers in addition to cost optimisation by applying its technology and standards to the entire process from operation to analysis. It consolidates the unified control and operation system and reflects comprehensive technologies including the virtualisation of servers and storages, cloud computing and green work environment.
The company claims that the Business Park built with green technology maximises energy efficiency through the systematic roadmap whose design including the introduction of a local cooling system minimises power consumption arising from cooling and the application of a 90-cm thick raised access floor following the analysis of computational fluid dynamics. These features can reduce thermal energy by more than 10% and lower carbon emission by 26%.
Won-jong Kim, general manager of global technology services at IBM Korea, said: IBM Business Park boasts highest level of availability, safety, scalability, security, as well as efficiency assessment and designing principles of a green data center. We are committed to providing the best services to support our clients to transform into smarter enterprises through innovation.”
