In a substantial increase of its global cloud footprint, IBM is announcing plans to commit over $1.2 billion in 2014 to add to its existing inventory of cloud data centers.
IBM will be adding 15 new data centers to its current list of 12 and the 13 SoftLayer data centers the company acquired last summer. The 15 new data centers will bring IBM's global total to 40, giving the company a presence on 5 continents and 15 countries.
IBM's 2014 strategy is to launch data centers in major geographic and financial centers including "China, Washington, D.C., Hong Kong, London, Japan, India, Canada, Mexico City, and Dallas," according to the press release. The company then plans to expand into theMiddle East and Africa in 2015.
Investing $1.2 billion, after spending about $2 billion last summer on SoftLayer and another $1 billion in the creation of its Watson Group less than a month ago, seems like a good deal of money to tie up. However, IBM is counting on the estimated $200 billion global growth of the cloud market by 2020; if the estimates are correct, then IBM will be positioned to take advantage of the need for cloud data centers, analytics, and service offerings globally.
"IBM is continuing to invest in high growth areas," said Erich Clementi, senior vice president of IBM Global Technology Services. "Last year, IBM made a big investment adding the $2 billion acquisition of SoftLayer to its existing high value cloud portfolio. Today's announcement is another major step in driving a global expansion of IBM’s cloud footprint and helping clients drive transformation."
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