iSoftStone to Support IBM Cloud Computing in Wuxi K-Park
(2008-3-7)

IBM announced that they will establish the first China Cloud Computing Center which will be located in the new Wuxi Tai Hu New Town Science and Education Industrial Park (K-Park) in Wuxi, China. The center will enable emerging Chinese IT outsourcing companies to tap into a virtual computing environment to support their software development activities. As IBM's premier partner and the leading IT service enterprise, iSoftStone will help to build and operate the IBM Cloud Computing Center.

"The China Cloud Computing Center represents a milestone in service-oriented computing," said T. W. Liu, the chairman and CEO of iSoftStone. "It will allow companies in the Wuxi Software Park to leapfrog to the newest computing models and will provide an efficient IT platform for software development." 

China Cloud Computing Center will provide a shared platform for each IT company in the K-Park for using the virtualized computing resource. Those companies will be able to access the platform computing services at any time, anywhere, as if they are using public utility services.

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 allows corporate data centers to operate more like the Internet by enabling computing resources to be accessed and shared as virtual resources in a secure and scalable manner. The China Cloud Computing Center 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.

More details on http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23426.wss

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