IBM has opened aEuropean cloud computingcentre in
Dublin to deliver research and serve the cloud computing needs of
customers and partners.
Financially backed by the Industrial Development Agency of
Ireland (IDA Ireland), the new facility will serve as a hub that
will deliver
cloud computing research and services to a number of satellite
facilities to be built in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
IBM experts from these centres will work directly with clients
in the region, helping them adopt cloud computing systems that spur
technology research and business development, said IBM.
One of the Dublin centre's first offerings for clients, called
IBM Idea Factory for Cloud Computing, is a new service delivered
directly to clients over a cloud computing environment.
Using Web 2.0 technology, it allows communities of business
professionals to be assembled into social networks to facilitate
the development of new business ideas.
IBM Idea Factory for Cloud Computing captures business
processes - from their beginnings as ideas to commercialisation -
speeding up brainstorming among employees, partners, software
developers and other third party participants.
Cloud computing is an IT infrastructure in which dynamically
shared computing resources are virtualised and accessed as a
service over the web.