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Europe's first Cloud Computing Centre
May 2008
IBM is to establish Europe ’s first Cloud Computing Centre, with the support of IDA Ireland. The new centre is to be located at the IBM Innovation Campus at Mulhuddart
The need for cloud computing is fuelled by the dramatic growth in business collaboration, connected devices, real-time data streams, and Web 2.0 applications such as streaming media and entertainment, social networking and mobile commerce.
Cloud computing is an attractive proposition for small to large-sized companies. It also is a green technology model that reduces energy consumption by improving IT resource utilization, therefore requiring fewer servers to handle equivalent workloads.