IBM has opened a new Hong Kong Cloud Computing Laboratory to support LotusLive cloud services. The new centre serves as a development facility for Web 2.0, cloud mail and collaboration for businesses of all sizes.
According to IBM, the laboratory, a development and services centre, focuses on LotusLive messaging development, testing, technical support and services delivery. The lab will support the growth of cloud collaboration by governments and companies.
The laboratory builds on the email technology of Outblaze, a Hong Kong-based company whose messaging assets were acquired by IBM earlier this year and incorporated into the Lotus brand of collaboration services.
IBM said the lab will support the growth of cloud collaboration by governments and companies. The services offered by the lab will help businesses transform communications and collaboration and reduces costs.
IBM’s LotusLive offers a suite of collaboration and social networking services including email, instant messaging, file-sharing, web meetings and project management starting at $3 per user per month. In addition, the company is also developing services that feature the benefits of on-premise and public cloud collaboration.
Matthew Wang, vice president of IBM China Development Laboratory and Asia Pacific North Cluster Laboratories, said: Strategically located near emerging growth markets, we expect that the new laboratory and IBM’s LotusLive platform will play an important role in helping clients here and around the world to take advantage of the growth in Web 2.0 collaboration. IBM intends to increase its investment in the laboratory and recruit more talent to capture this huge global opportunity.
