BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM today announced the launch of its first Cloud Computing Center in Bangalore to enable businesses to pilot cloud infrastructures and applications for their clients.

The new facility will give enterprise customers including mid market, universities and government bodies in India to access the resources they need to pilot cloud infrastructure and applications and deliver new and innovative services to their customers, said Dr. P Gopalakrishnan, vice president, IBM India Software Lab.

“Today, we have a very highly competitive environment and the customer expectations are higher that ever before. In such a scenario innovations can no longer be confined to four walls of a room. The new facility will help amalgamate need-based ideas to develop new technologies”, Dr. Gopalakrishnan said.

According to the IBM vice president hoped the Cloud Computing Center will be focusing on new platform innovations while keeping an eye on IBM’s traditional domains. The enterprise customers can benefit in addressing issues like bridging the technology gap, developing new technologies and managing the fast growth effectively.

IBM Cloud Computing Centers host computing activities for clients or provide access to enterprise and infrastructures for clients to design and deploy their own cloud environments. This computing model allows businesses and consumers alike to remotely access a vast computing resource that can be tapped on-demand to deliver next-generation services that consumers demand, like online medical records or mobile stock portfolio management.

Apart from enterprise customers, small and medium business (SMBs) will the opportunity to contribute to new technologies in the open innovation environment. The businesses can benefit from energy efficiency because of its principle as a shared infrastructure, and allows tracking information, paying for what they use and access.

Dr. Gopalakrishnan said the India center would help enterprises looking to transform their data center for service delivery and innovation as well as startup businesses or organizations that do not have infrastructure. There will be a special focus on the fast growing communications industry including content providers, Internet service providers and telecom companies.

IBM has dedicated more than 200 full time researchers and over 100 million dollars over three years in cloud computing and offers a number of products and services to help clients offer the types of services end users and consumers demand.