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IBM Expands Cloud Footprint

With SoftLayer cloud center in Paris, France

IBM Corporation will open a new SoftLayer cloud center in Paris, France, before the end of this year.

The facility will complement SoftLayer cloud centers in London and Amsterdam, offering clients more options for moving data and operations to the cloud in Europe in a secure environment. IBM cloud will also provide cloud infrastructure services for customers and companies in France that require in-country data residency.

We’re addressing clients’ and countries’ growing desire for data sovereignty head on,” said Lance Crosby, CEO, SoftLayer. “With each new cloud center we’re bringing our complete cloud services portfolio to the doorsteps of local customers. The Paris cloud center allows us to support workloads and applications from French customers who want their data to stay in the country and secure in the cloud, and provides our global clients with an opportunity to get even closer to their end user customers in the region.

The facility is part of a new 15 cloud center expansion and a $1.2 billion investment by IBM cloud to grow its cloud presence around the world. It has capacity for thousands of physical servers and offers SoftLayer cloud infrastructure services, including bare metal servers, virtual servers, storage, and networking. It integrates via the company’s private network with all SoftLayer cloud centers and network PoPs around the world. With services deployed on demand and remote access and control, customers can create their public, private, or hybrid cloud environments.

The new Paris cloud center opening comes at an opportune time as French analyst firm Markess International SAS reported that the cloud computing market in France has increased by EUR 2.2 billion in 2012 to EUR 4.1 billion in 2014 as more companies adopt cloud to deploy Web-centric workloads or transform their existing operations.

We’ve been a SoftLayer customer for four years now,” said Nicolas Zumbiehl, CEO, Hypernia Corporation, a SoftLayer customer that provides managed hosting and gaming services. “We appreciate SoftLayer’s robust cloud environment and WW network, and since we’re a global company with clients in France, we’re excited about SoftLayer’s global expansion, and especially about the new data center in France.

France ranks in SoftLayer’s top ten best-performing countries within EMEA and continues to grow as new French customers come on board.

We chose SoftLayer because it could deliver the infrastructure we needed to enable our customers with training, localization, and real-time performance support,” said Michel Balcaen, CEO, Assima PLC, a company with French founders that develops end-user performance software for large organizations around the world. “IBM provided us with the expertise to design our cloud solution, while SoftLayer met all the requirements we had in terms of location, data privacy, flexibility, and performance. We manage centrally the VMs for all our clients WW from our R&D Center in Paris.

More details on SoftLayer’s new Paris data center

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