IBM opens Cloud Computing center in India

BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM today unveiled a Cloud Computing center in Bangalore.

The Bangalore center will give enterprise customers including mid-market, universities and government bodies in India immediate access to the resources they need to pilot cloud infrastructures and applications, and deliver new and innovative services to their customers, said a press release.

IBM also announced the opening of other new Cloud Computing centers in Korea, Vietnam and Brazil. With this IBM has the largest network of cloud computing centers in the world, the company said. These centers will cater to an increasing demand in emerging markets such as India for Internet-based new computing models and skills.

IBM Cloud Computing Centers host computing activities for clients or provide access to expertise and infrastructures for clients to design and deploy their own cloud environments, the release added.

IBM is already collaborating with partners, government and academia in other emerging countries to facilitate innovation supported by a Cloud infrastructure.

In India, clients such as mid-market vendors, academic institutions, telecommunications companies and government bodies will be able to access the center for the resources they need to pilot cloud infrastructures and applications, and deliver new services to their customers.

“Cloud computing enables server centric virtualization which helps IT ecosystem to achieve smaller footprint, efficient resource utilization and server consolidation,” said Prof. Sanjay G. Dhande, director, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

He said the technology collaboration between IIT Kanpur and IBM India would drive new developments in computing to support academic advancement and economic development in India.

“The convergence of personally empowering technologies into the hands of the consumer is fundamentally changing consumer behavior and expectations. Cloud computing offers an answer for many of these needs,” said Dr. Ponani Gopalakrishnan, vice president, India Software Lab.

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, it added.

Earlier this month, IBM announced its largest launch ever of new storage hardware, software and services, aimed at meeting the demands of cloud computing.

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