在经典的IBM营销的味道，蓝色巨人宣布一个大的投资到云：$ 1.2十亿以后两年显著加强其国际数据中心的占用空间为它的云。雷竞技电脑网站
IBM has been aiming high in the cloud for the past few years and today's declaration makes it clear IBM is in the public cloud fight for the long haul. That is news that others in the market - particularly the likes of Amazon Web Services, Google, Verizon Terremark, Microsoft and Rackspace - may not be ecstatic to hear, but the statement can't come as a huge surprise to those in the cloud industry either.
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首先，详细说明：作为投资的一部分，IBM表示，它计划在2014年新的数据中心到底有横跨15个国家五大洲超过40个数据中心将今年在中国建立（这是雷竞技电脑网站previously announced), Washington D.C., Hong Kong, London, Japan, India, Canada, Mexico City and Dallas, with more new data centers in the Middle East and Africa in 2015. "This will be the most comprehensive global cloud service any company has offered," IBM SVP of global technology services Erich Clementi wrote in a blog announcing the investment, seemingly taking a swipe at Amazon Web Services.
AWS has nine regions including four in the U.S., one each in South America, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Europe (Ireland), and it has announced plans for aChineseregion.
IBM says the data center build out will allow it to serve more customers more quickly. By having data centers in close geographic proximity to the end users customers have the fastest access to those cloud resources, IBM says. Data sovereignty laws in foreign countries and concerns about government snooping will allow customers to keep data within their country's borders too.
此举代表了SoftLayer的真是个好消息，一个公共云的IaaS平台，IBMbought for $2 billionin mid-2013. Since acquiring the company, IBM has made SoftLayer a centerpiece of its public cloud and today it said SoftLayer will serve as the "foundation" of its cloud portfolio moving forward. SoftLayer employees made a pretty penny on their buyout from IBM, and now the company is doubling down on their shiny new toy. SoftLayer data center capacity will almost double from 13 data centers to 25 when the expansion is complete.
IBM is certainly looking to take on the heavyweight in this industry: Amazon Web Services. At AWS's most recent user conference, IBM rented advertisements on buses driving around Las Vegas boasting that its SoftLayer platform hosts more web sites than any other cloud provider - including AWS. Andy Jassy, who heads up Amazon's cloud operations called IBM out during his keynote for placing the ads across the city - marking a rare foray by Amazon into a public marketing duel with competitors. (Check out Alex Williams' write up of the cmarketing gimmicks of competitors at AWS's show这里。）
虽然IBM下跌了一堆现金放在云可能激怒一些市场，但现实是（继续第2页）的行业是如此年轻，有足够的企业去周围所有主要的供应商有他们的作品的馅饼。IBM百分点研究指出，公共云计算市场在2020年从估计的十亿$ 113 2013顶部$ 200十亿，上，根据Gartner的。有足够的份额多万玩家。
Who this really threatens are the mid-size and smaller IaaS cloud players who may not be able to keep up with the billion-dollar investments of mega-players. No doubt Amazon, Microsoft and Google will respond to this news with evaluations of their own global data center footprint, which they're undoubtedly already doing anyway. IBM may be looking to differentiate itself as a true international cloud player: At this point, Amazon doesn't have any data centers in Mexico or Central America and it only has one in the European region, nor does AWS have any announced plans for services in the Middle East or Africa.
IBM似乎做爱宏伟豪言像今天的关于投资策略。去年三月，其SoftLayer的收购之前，IBM宣布的OpenStack，开源云计算的IaaS平台，将central to its cloud strategy向前进。2013年9月，IBM承诺$1 billion to the developmentof Linux-based cloud and analytics platforms. And just this month IBM said it将investa reported $1 billion into what it calls cognitive computing, which is centered around its Watson technology.
可能有人会问这样的新闻价值的公告实际上是如何的。这是真正的新的钱，IBM正致力于Linux和云计算？或者是IBM已经打算花这笔钱在其预算今年无论如何，现在它只是作出这一宣布？无论哪种方式，很显然IBM正在寻找使公共IaaS的云市场的举动。花费$ 1.2十亿打造了十几个新的数据中心肯定是一个开始的地方。雷竞技电脑网站
Senior Writer Brandon Butler covers云计算佛r Network World andNetworkWorld.com。他可以在到达BButler@nww.com和佛und on Twitter at@BButlerNWW.