SubscribeIBM opened its latest data center on Friday in North Carolina. Big Blue said the $362 million, 100,000-square-foot facility at its Research Triangle Park campus is designed to support cloud computing and other new computing models.
According to IBM, the new data center cuts technology infrastructure costs and complexity for clients while raising quality and speeding services deployment. Big Blue’s data center also has green implications because it uses only half the energy of most facilities its size.
Pat Kerin, general manager of IBM North America, said data centers have always been a critical part of IBM’s global technology services and will become even more important as the processes, infrastructure and systems that define business today become increasingly connected and intelligent.
“This new facility not only sets new standards for energy efficiency,” Kerin said, “but provides the flexible capacity that allows IBM to deliver services that enable clients to reduce costs, improve productivity, and gain competitive advantage in their markets.”
Virtualization and Cloud Computing
With the new data center, IBM is beefing up support for new Internet technologies and services. IBM’s stated goal is to meet the business challenges of an environment characterized by an “exponential rise in computational power, a proliferation of connected devices, and an imperative to manage energy costs.”
IBM accomplishes this, in part, by using advanced software virtualization technologies that make possible access to information and services from any device with high levels of availability and quality of experience. The facility works aggressively to conserve energy resources by leveraging a smart management approach that links equipment, building systems, and data-center operations.
Support for cloud-computing workloads allows clients to tap into only the resources they need to support their IT operations at any given time. This approach also does away with the need for up to 70 percent of the required hardware resources to…
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