{"id":10880,"date":"2014-06-03T23:47:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T23:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jun\/04\/softlayers-jonathan-wisler-ibm-partnership-phenomenal\/"},"modified":"2014-06-03T23:47:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T23:47:25","slug":"softlayers-jonathan-wisler-ibm-partnership-phenomenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/softlayers-jonathan-wisler-ibm-partnership-phenomenal\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftLayer\u2019s Jonathan Wisler: IBM partnership \u201cphenomenal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftLayer has announced the opening of a Hong Kong data centre, with Jonathan Wisler, EMEA managing director at SoftLayer, saying the company&rsquo;s partnership with IBM continues to accelerate.<\/p>\n<p>The infrastructure as a service provider opened up in Hong Kong on Monday, with further plans to expand in London later this year &ndash; as Salesforce.com did last week &ndash; as well as expansion in Europe, South America, Latin America and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Wisler notes that &lsquo;performance, network and data privacy laws&rsquo; form the reason behind the move.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re building out these data centres based on customer demand,&rdquo; he tells <em>CloudTech<\/em>. &nbsp;&ldquo;It gets you closer to the end user, it makes it more of a high performance delivery platform, so in addition to the hosting we provide we&rsquo;re also a very large network provider so with our service you get hosting plus network, and we manage that network.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Building out data &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftLayer has announced the opening of a Hong Kong data centre, with Jonathan Wisler, EMEA managing director at SoftLayer, saying the company&rsquo;s partnership with IBM continues to accelerate.<br \/>\nThe infrastructure as a service provider opened up in Ho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}