IBM announced it will invest US$ 17 million in a new data center located in Bogotá: stakes and opportunities.

IBM business opportunities in Colombia continue to grow since the US$8 million investment IBM made in Colombia when the company opened a datacenter in 2011. Henceforth IBM rely on its services ( IaaS,SaaS …) to develop its market share internationally and specially in Latin America.

Connectikpeople has observed that, the new center will provide Colombian companies with cloud computing and Big Data services, with the goal to enable organizations to

transform their business to meet the growing demands of the local and international markets and to offer flexible, high quality and personalized services for their customers.

Connnectikpeople may recall that,  since 2009, IBM has made multi-million-dollar investments in Latin America ,opening nine IT Services Centers located in Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay.