{"id":10996,"date":"2014-07-01T03:51:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T03:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jul\/01\/softlayer-launches-london-data-centre-has-europe-its-sights\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T03:51:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T03:51:15","slug":"softlayer-launches-london-data-centre-has-europe-in-its-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/softlayer-launches-london-data-centre-has-europe-in-its-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftLayer launches London data centre, has Europe in its sights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has announced a new UK data centre from SoftLayer will launch later this month &ndash; with France and Germany also in the IaaS provider&rsquo;s sights for this year.<\/p>\n<p>The new data centre will complement SoftLayer&rsquo;s existing Amsterdam offering, as well as the Point of Presence London network. The move comes just a month after Salesforce launched their own London data centre.<\/p>\n<p>IBM describes London as a key cloud market, with one third of the world&rsquo;s largest companies headquartered in London and some of the world&rsquo;s largest financial institutions operating from there.<\/p>\n<p>The London server will hold more than 15,000 physical servers and will offer the full range of SoftLayer services, from bare metal to storage and networking, with SoftLayer offering $500 for the first customers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>CloudTech<\/em> at Cloud World Forum last week, SoftLayer EMEA managing director Jonathan Wisler explained how the company was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has announced a new UK data centre from SoftLayer will launch later this month &ndash; with France and Germany also in the IaaS provider&rsquo;s sights for this year.<br \/>\nThe new data centre will complement SoftLayer&rsquo;s existing Amsterdam offering&#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-10996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996","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=10996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}