IBM continues to expand its cloud footprint by opening a second IBM Cloud data center in São Paulo, Brazil to provide in-country cloud solutions to local companies in the country. From the new location, the connections with IBM Cloud services in Latin America will be reduced to just milliseconds, said IBM. The new data center joins two other IBM Cloud data centers in Latin America: one located in Hortolândia, São Paulo and Queretaro, México.
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With capacity for 9,000 total servers and a power rating of 2.8 megawatts, the São Paulo data center offers the full range of SoftLayer infrastructure services, including bare metal and virtual servers, storage, security services, and networking. The new data center can also host OpenStack-based solutions including those from Blue Box, a recent IBM acquisition. This helps extend the reach of any OpenStack environment, enabling customers to connect to infrastructure and managed services that support powerful architectures including AIX on Power Systems, said IBM.
Mauricio Brentano, CTO of Seekr
It is apparent to us, partners, the investment and interest from IBM to evolve increasingly SoftLayer. More than performance and quality, one of the great advantages of IBM is the service, promptness and assistance in defining the best solution for our needs, extremely difficult to find in other solutions of Cloud Computing.
