IBM recently announced the opening of its first cloud center in the state of Queretaro, located near the capital of Mexico.

The new facility is part of IBM's US$1.2 billion investment that aims to expand IBM's Cloud presence in Latin America. It will provide data residency, more redundancy and will offer customers the complete SoftLayer platform for creating their cloud computing environment in Mexico.

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"The new cloud center in Mexico reinforces our commitment to the growing Mexican and Latin American cloud markets," said Lance Crosby, IBM's general manager of cloud innovation and business development.

"We can now bring all the benefits and advantages of SoftLayer's cloud platform to customers in country or to customers looking for a Mexican location."

"The Mexico cloud center brings IBM Cloud's complete portfolio to the doorsteps of local customers, who can run workloads and applications in the cloud while taking advantage of in-country data and compute services, security, high-speed connections, and 24/7 support," said Salvador Martinez Vidal, IBM's general manager for Mexico.

"We look forward to offering customers our global IBM capabilities from a local Mexico address." Vidal added.

TagsMexico, Querétaro, cloud services, Cloud Facility, Latin America, SoftLayer Platform