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June 18, 2015

IBM Expands European Presence with New Data Center in Italy

IBM (News - Alert) has made yet another move geared toward strengthening its global presence when it comes to working in the cloud. The firm has also strengthened its standing in the European Market by opening its very first cloud data center in Italy. This particular center is located right in Milan and the cloud data center means that there is now an IBM presence in the region.

The cloud industry can operate all over the world, but there is something to be said for locale, especially when attempting to lock down a region. By having a local IBM Cloud presence, customers in the area are able to deploy their workloads in Italy with a low-latency connection into the global platform that IBM has established.

While IBM put the cloud data center in Milan because they wanted to just have a European presence, there are other business reasons why the firm made this particular decision. Italy is a growing market when it comes the cloud-computing world. The Polytechnic University of Milan says the country saw a growth in this particular market year over year by 31 percent.

"The Italian IT sector is changing as startups and enterprises alike are increasingly turning to the cloud to optimize infrastructure, lower IT costs, create new revenue streams, and spur innovation," Marc Jones, chief technology officer for SoftLayer (News - Alert), an IBM Company said in a recent statement. Jones added that launching the data center in Italy means the company is providing a local onramp to the cloud. IBM, using SoftLayer now has EMEA cloud centers in London, Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam and means that IBM really has created a network that spans the entire globe. The setup will give IBM’s customers in Europe top-notch service thanks to connections that will send data to European locations in less than 30 milliseconds.




Edited by Dominick Sorrentino
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