IBM announce new computing centre for Dublin
19/03/2008 - 09:46:01The Minister for Employment, Micheál Martin, has announced that IBM is to establish Europe’s first Cloud Computing Centre in Dublin.
The new centre, with the support of IDA Ireland, is to be located at the IBM Innovation Campus at Mulhuddart.
It is expected to emply 21 people of which nine will be focused on research in the area of cloud computing.
The centre will serve as a European hub to provide research and services to a number of facilities to be built in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
IBM Idea Factory, one of the Dublin centre's first offerings to clients, allows communities of business professionals to be assembled into social networks to facilitate the development of new business ideas.
