{"id":15273,"date":"2015-06-16T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/jun\/16\/ibm-softlayer-opens-italian-data-centre-fuelling-demand-local-cloud-services\/"},"modified":"2015-06-16T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:37:23","slug":"ibm-softlayer-opens-up-italian-data-centre-fuelling-demand-for-local-cloud-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-softlayer-opens-up-italian-data-centre-fuelling-demand-for-local-cloud-services\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM SoftLayer opens up Italian data centre, fuelling demand for local cloud services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Picture credit: IBM\/SoftLayer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>IBM has opened up its first cloud data centre in Cornaredo, a municipality in Milan, strengthening its European empire.<\/p>\n<p>The data centre, which runs on SoftLayer infrastructure, allows customers to more easily manage, run and store data through less latency and stronger data sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows previous openings in the UK, Germany and France. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/jan\/07\/ibm-launches-first-softlayer-cloud-data-centre-germany-bolsters-data-privacy\/\">The German data centre, in Frankfurt, opened in January this year<\/a>. According to the Polytechnic University of Milan&rsquo;s Observatory of Cloud and ICT as a Service, the Italian cloud market saw 31% year over year growth in 2014. IBM claims that, from its new location, connections to SoftLayer services within Europe take less than 30 milliseconds.<\/p>\n<p>The data centre plot has capacity for up to 11000 servers and a power rating of 2.8 megawatts. The Milan data centre is part of IBM&rsquo;s $1.2 billion investment in 2014, aimed at expanding its global cloud footprint.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Wisler, SoftLayer EMEA managing director, told <em>CloudTech<\/em> the expansion of SoftLayer&rsquo;s data centres, not just across Europe but globally, were primarily down to performance and data compliance. &ldquo;You see the execution of our strategy continuing,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The workloads are becoming more demanding in terms of low latency, so we&rsquo;re trying to get as close as possible to build what I call a compute CDN (content delivery network).&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nicola Ciniero, general manager for IBM Italy, said in a statement: &ldquo;This data centre represents a financial and technological investment made by a multinational company that has faith in this country&rsquo;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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As with the German launch, customers can receive up to $500 off their first orders in the new Milan data centre. You can find out more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softlayer.com\/info\/milan-hosting\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture credit: IBM\/SoftLayer<br \/>\nIBM has opened up its first cloud data centre in Cornaredo, a municipality in Milan, strengthening its European empire.<br \/>\nThe data centre, which runs on SoftLayer infrastructure, allows customers to more easily manage, run a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15274,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions\/15274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}