The centre is to be built in Wuxi and will be established through an agreement signed between IBM and Wuxi Tai Lake Industry Investment and Development Company.
The China Cloud Computing Center will be a shared facility providing each software company in the park with its own virtualised computing resource. Such virtual environments can replace the traditional data center model, in which each company owns and manages its own hardware and software.
“Cloud computing is helping to foster the growth of new software companies in China,” IBM Software senior vice-president and group executive Steve Mills said.
“Like many new software companies seeking growth opportunities both locally and abroad, these Chinese software companies will rely on technical infrastructures built on open standards and delivered as a service. This open approach to computing will help them deliver innovation and pursue global market opportunities.”
Cloud computing is an approach to shared information technology (IT) infrastructure in which large pools of systems are linked together to provide IT services.
Cloud computing lets corporate data centres to operate more like the internet by enabling computing resources to be accessed and shared as virtual resources in a secure and scalable way.
The centre will be built using IBM's ‘Blue Cloud’ technologies, a series of cloud computing offerings based on open standards and open source software which link together computers to deliver Web 2.0 capabilities such as mashups, open collaboration, social networking and mobile commerce.
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