AMSTERDAM: IBM announces SoftLayer subsidiary open second cloud data centre in Netherlands.
The new data center facility, located in Almere, will help meet the rapid growth of IBM Cloud by doubling its presence in the region, allowing for additional data storage to help with backing up and recovering data.
This new facility demonstrates the demand and success IBM Cloud is having at delivering high-value services right to the doorstep of our clients,” said James Comfort, IBM General Manager of Cloud Services in a statement. “We’re reaching customers in a way that takes all the guess work out of moving to the cloud.
They can build and scale applications, run the toughest big data workloads, have the level of security they need, all in country and connected to a truly global platform.”