LONDON: IBM aims to expand the number of data centres it offers clients around the world by 25% to meet fast-rising demand for Internet-based services, after what has been described by a company executive as a "breakthrough year" in 2014 for its cloud computing business.
IBM has quadrupled the number of cloud data facilities it offers around the world to 49 in the past 18 months, responding in part to laws requiring the local retention of data following revelations over US government Web surveillance, as well as increased corporate compliance rules.