NEW DELHI, INDIA: IBM announced its launch of new storage hardware, software and services that will enable businesses, governments and other institutions to transform static data into more dynamic information that is accessible in a cloud computing environment. The company is planning to invest $2 billion over three years.

According to IBM, with the proliferation of the mobile web, the average individual's information footprint—the digitization of entertainment, healthcare, security, social networking, retail preferences will grow from 1 terabyte per year to more than 16 terabytes by 2020.

"As India goes through a radical shift away from the decades-old client/server model to a radically more efficient Internet-style architecture, we have taken a giant leap to address foreseen customer challenges with the new information infrastructure launch. With our future investments and key acquisitions throughout the last 24 months we have cemented our strategy to provide information on demand," said Shashi B Mal, Director—Systems and Technology Group, IBM India/South Asia.

"Infrastructures need to adapt to meet this demand, and in response, IBM today is delivering critical elements for an information infrastructure as part of its new enterprise data center strategy. These elements focus on the availability, compliance and retention, and security pain points for clients as they re-design their data centers. More than 30 new, upgraded products and services are being introduced across the IBM portfolio to meet these critical needs," added Shailesh Agarwal, VP—Business Systems, Systems and Technology Group, IBM India South Asia.

IBM also announced the global opening of the New Enterprise Data Center Leadership Centers.