With the addition of the new centre in Mumbai to its global footprint, IBM adds new resiliency service capabilities for its clients. The Mumbai centre joins Asia Pacific facilities in Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Melbourne opened this year alone as part of IBM's US$1.2 billion investment in cloud centres in every major market worldwide.
The driving forces behind the adoption of cloud computing worldwide include requirements for businesses and governments to store certain data locally to comply with data residency regulations, as well as a growing desire for startups to expand their businesses globally. IBM estimates about 100 nations and territories have adopted laws that dictate how governments and private enterprises handle personal data.
The new Mumbai IBM Cloud Center is part of IBM's commitment to continue to grow IBM's Cloud presence around the world. This effort includes IBM's business consulting division, which features cloud experts with deep industry knowledge who are located around the globe to enable clients to move to cloud. These experts are dedicated to working face-to-face with clients to address all of their industry specific needs as they transform to the cloud era.
“This new Mumbai centre is IBM’s latest investment to create the most extensive global network of cloud facilities in the industry to help clients expand globally with cloud and tackle data sovereignty issues,” said Lingraju Sawkar, Director, Integrated Technology Services, Global Technology Services IBM India / SA. “Through this new centre, we are able to help usher businesses into the cloud era while delivering the levels of security that allow them to experience the benefits of this new environment and ensure they remain protected.”
Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the new, 31,000 sq ft Mumbai facility offers an array of solutions including proven cloud resiliency services. These services guarantee customers uptime of 99.99% across any IT environment, including traditional IT, public, private, or hybrid cloud deployments. In the event of an outage, the centre’s support team can recover data in minutes to ensure that is has little to no impact on business operations while going virtually unseen by customers.
Clients around the world are using IBM Cloud Centers spread across every major market to help them adopt cloud for growth and innovation. New Zealand-based Finzsoft Solutions, a financial technology provider, has for example turned to the IBM cloud to offer solutions-as-a-service to clients as the company expands in Australasia and across the Asia Pacific region.
The driving forces behind the adoption of cloud computing worldwide include requirements for businesses and governments to store certain data locally to comply with data residency regulations, as well as a growing desire for startups to expand their businesses globally. IBM estimates about 100 nations and territories have adopted laws that dictate how governments and private enterprises handle personal data.
The new Mumbai IBM Cloud Center is part of IBM's commitment to continue to grow IBM's Cloud presence around the world. This effort includes IBM's business consulting division, which features cloud experts with deep industry knowledge who are located around the globe to enable clients to move to cloud. These experts are dedicated to working face-to-face with clients to address all of their industry specific needs as they transform to the cloud era.
“This new Mumbai centre is IBM’s latest investment to create the most extensive global network of cloud facilities in the industry to help clients expand globally with cloud and tackle data sovereignty issues,” said Lingraju Sawkar, Director, Integrated Technology Services, Global Technology Services IBM India / SA. “Through this new centre, we are able to help usher businesses into the cloud era while delivering the levels of security that allow them to experience the benefits of this new environment and ensure they remain protected.”
Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the new, 31,000 sq ft Mumbai facility offers an array of solutions including proven cloud resiliency services. These services guarantee customers uptime of 99.99% across any IT environment, including traditional IT, public, private, or hybrid cloud deployments. In the event of an outage, the centre’s support team can recover data in minutes to ensure that is has little to no impact on business operations while going virtually unseen by customers.
Clients around the world are using IBM Cloud Centers spread across every major market to help them adopt cloud for growth and innovation. New Zealand-based Finzsoft Solutions, a financial technology provider, has for example turned to the IBM cloud to offer solutions-as-a-service to clients as the company expands in Australasia and across the Asia Pacific region.
Under a five-year cloud agreement, Finzsoft will move its core and vertical banking applications, including its Sovereign application, to the IBM Cloud. The agreement to host Finzsoft applications in the IBM Cloud at IBM cloud centres in Auckland and Wellington will enable Finzsoft to speed up the deployment of its solutions, reduce costs and provide security and resiliency to its customers. The cloud-based model enables Finzsoft to meet the growing demands amongst its client base for operating models that deliver agility, availability and stability.
Under the new agreement, Finzsoft will leverage IBM Cloud Managed Services for New Zealand as well as infrastructure from SoftLayer, an IBM company, enabling Finzsoft to take advantage of IBM's global network of enterprise-grade cloud centers in every major market and allowing for data sovereignty and other requirements to be met as they move to the cloud.
"IBM's reputation as a global technology and innovation leader was key to our decision to enter into this agreement. Working with IBM will give our clients confidence that we are offering our solutions through a robust and secure cloud environment, something which is extremely important to tier one banks and finance companies. Having the IBM global brand behind us will strengthen our business proposals to our clients and enable a continued focus on the development and delivery of transformational and scalable solutions for our clients," said Andrew Holliday, Managing Director, Finzsoft.
"The banking sector is rapidly transforming. The focus on digital, mobility, online banking and granular customer data means our customers want greater flexibility and more personalised and integrated solutions. This agile, on-demand and real time access to solutions as-a-service through the IBM Cloud will also help transform how our customers approach core banking refreshes and upgrades,” added Holliday.
"The rapid transformation of the banking industry is being driven strongly by digital technologies. Finzsoft chose IBM for very clear reasons – security, enterprise-grade capabilities, global network and our ability to be a transformation partner. Working with Finzsoft to deliver these leading applications as-a-service demonstrates that IBM is a leading provider of cloud services with a compelling value proposition to enterprises," said Robert Varker, Business Unit Executive, IBM Integrated Technology Services.
In addition to the need for a global network of cloud centres to address growing client demands, companies also looking for a secure, dedicated and highly available environment that enables greater flexibility and an open cloud. To address this, IBM is also introducing the IBM Cloud OpenStack Services via the IBM Cloud marketplace. This will enable greater interoperability between existing IT systems and off-premise cloud workloads and provide clients with the means to more easily deploy an OpenStack cloud.
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