SoftLayer has announced the opening of a Hong Kong data centre, with Jonathan Wisler, EMEA managing director at SoftLayer, saying the company’s partnership with IBM continues to accelerate.

The infrastructure as a service provider opened up in Hong Kong on Monday, with further plans to expand in London later this year – as Salesforce.com did last week – as well as expansion in Europe, South America, Latin America and Asia.

Wisler notes that ‘performance, network and data privacy laws’ form the reason behind the move.

“We’re building out these data centres based on customer demand,” he tells CloudTech.  “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’re also a very large network provider so with our service you get hosting plus network, and we manage that network.

“Building out data …