IBM (News - Alert), the providers of Blue Cloud, announced the launch of two ultra-sophisticated delivery data centers at North Carolina, US and Tokyo, Japan, which will be powering cloud computing model in order to meet the demands of the next era.

 

IBM is said to have invested nearly $400 Million to build these two cloud computing data centers. The company has spent nearly $360 million to build the advanced data center at its facility in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina.

 

IBM built the new data center at North Carolina as an initiative to its ‘Project Big Green’ program, in order considerably increase energy efficiency and as well handle a rapidly rising amount of data.

 

IBM that also built the new data center in Tokyo, Japan is said to be the company’s ninth cloud computing center worldwide. This center aims to provide large enterprise customers, universities and government organizations with immediate access to the resources that are required to pilot cloud infrastructures and applications, thereby delivering new and innovative services to the customers.

 

Cloud computing is said to be a computing model in which tasks are assigned to a group of connections, software and services that are accessed over a network. The model incorporates network of servers and connections, which is collectively called as "the cloud."

 

Cloud computing, also called as on-demand computing facilitates users to access high processing power of the supercomputer-level. Users can reach the cloud via a thin client or other access point, such as an iPhone (News - Alert), BlackBerry or laptop for resources as and when required. According to Sum Microsystems, Cloud computing happens when the network becomes the supercomputer. 

 

"Cloud computing is fundamentally about re-engineering the world's computing infrastructure, to enable game-changing -- even life changing -- applications," said Willy Chiu, Vice President, IBM High Performance On Demand Solutions, in the statement, "To IBM, cloud computing is much more than the normal evolution of a data center."

 

IBM’s new cloud computing center at North Carolina is said to be built on the company’s New Enterprise Data Center design principles. It provides businesses with unparalleled access to vast Internet-scale computing technology that is capable of supporting cloud environments.

 

The new cloud computing center at North Carolina will be done by renovating the existing building on its RTP campus that aims of reusing 95 percent of the original building's shell, recycling 90 percent of materials from original building, and with 20 percent of newly purchased material to be from recycled products. The center's new mechanical system design is said to be 50 percent more efficient than the industry’s average that is said to reduce approximately 31,799 tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, said the company. This is said to be the part of company’s Green Initiative.

 

IBM also plans to install high density computing systems that will utilize virtualization technology, in order to reduce energy costs by running multiple software applications on the same servers, says company.

 

IBM’s new data center at Tokyo, Japan is said to be significant because it is the first client facing center in a market as mature as Japan. This Tokyo cloud center will be linked to the new Raleigh center and company’s other seven cloud centers across the globe to help clients lead cloud infrastructures and applications globally, said the company.

 

IBM officials disclosed that they have 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 such as Blue Cloud to help their clients to offer the types of services end users according to consumers demand.

 

IBM’ Blue Cloud is a set of hardware, software and services that allows company’s clients to offer personal and business services from remote, centralized servers, the "cloud," that share computing resources and bandwidth - to any device, anywhere.

 

IBM statistics show that the company launched its Europe's first Cloud Computing Center in Dublin, Ireland in March and two more centers in Beijing, China and Johannesburg, South Africa in June.

 

IBM has provided cloud computing services to clients such as Wuxi City of China; Sogeti, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Capgemini (News - Alert); the Vietnamese government institutions and universities; and iTricity, a utility-based hosting service provider headquartered in the Netherlands.