As part of IBM's $1.2 billion investment to expand its cloud services, the IT gaint has announced the opening of its newest SoftLayer cloud center in Sydney, adding to an earlier facility in Melbourne to meet the growing customer demand. The Sydney cloud center offers the full range of SoftLayer cloud infrastructure services, including bare metal servers, virtual servers, storage, security services, and networking.
Since launching its first Australian cloud center in Melbourne late last year, IBM said that the cloud service has added hundreds of new customers and experienced a boom across other SoftLayer facilities in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo.
According to IBM, building on this success, the new Sydney facility makes it easy for Australian customers, or those looking for an Australian location, to tap into IBM's enterprise-grade offerings. It broadens data redundancy options within Australia and APAC while providing secure, scalable, and customizable infrastructure solutions for both enterprise and born-on-the-Web businesses.
