{"id":15271,"date":"2015-06-16T12:53:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T12:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=228352"},"modified":"2015-06-16T12:53:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T12:53:16","slug":"ibm-stands-up-softlayer-datacentre-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-stands-up-softlayer-datacentre-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM stands up SoftLayer datacentre in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_160192\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2013\/10\/datacentre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-160192\" alt=\"IBM has added its first SoftLayer datacentre in Italy, and its 24th globally\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2013\/10\/datacentre.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">IBM has added its first SoftLayer datacentre in Italy, and its 24th globally<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>IBM announced the launch of its first SoftLayer datacentre in Italy this week, which is located in Cornaredo, Milan.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the datacentre in Milan, a growing hub for cloud services, will enable it to offer a local option for Italian businesses looking to deploy IBM cloud services. The facility, it\u2019s 24<sup>th<\/sup> SoftLayer datacentre globally, has a capacity for up to 11,000 servers, a power rating of 2.8 megawatts, and is designed to Tier III spec.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d said Marc Jones, chief technology officer for SoftLayer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Milan datacentre extends the unique capabilities of our global platform by providing a fast, local onramp to the cloud. Customers have everything they need to quickly build out and test solutions that run the gamut from crunching big data to launching a mobile app globally,\u201d Jones added.<\/p>\n<p>Nicola Ciniero, general manager of IBM Italy said: \u201cThis datacentre represents a financial and technological investment made by a multinational company that has faith in this country&#8217;s potential. Having an IBM Cloud presence in Italy will provide local businesses with the right foundation to innovate and thrive on a global level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move comes just a couple of months after I<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2015\/04\/23\/ibm-adds-second-softlayer-datacentre-in-the-netherlands\/\">BM added a second SoftLayer datacentre in the Netherlands.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company said the datacentre in Milan, a growing hub for cloud services, will enable it to offer a local option for Italian businesses looking to deploy IBM cloud services. The facility, it&rsquo;s 24th SoftLayer datacentre globally, has a capacity for up to 11,000 servers, a power rating of 2.8 megawatts, and is designed to Tier III spec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1992,799,2832,1976,2833,1636],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datacentre","category-ibm","category-marc-jones","category-news-analysis","category-nicola-ciniero","category-softlayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271","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\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15517,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271\/revisions\/15517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}