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Learn more at http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/ibm-softlayer.html It's been a year since SoftLayer officially added "an IBM company" to its title. Since then, IBM has invested $1.2 billion to grow its cloud footprint with 15 new data centers around the world.

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Norwegian IT supplier Evry has signed a $1bn IT outsourcing deal with IBM as part of an ongoing business transformation project, which will see 600 members of staff move to the supplier.

The deal covers all infrastructure platforms, such as Mainframe, Unix and Wintel, for a period of at least 10 years.

As part of the deal, Evry will continue to manage the datacentres in which IBM operates its technology, but almost 600 Evry employees, over half in Norway, will be transferred to the supplier.

"This isn't much of a surprise, given that IBM signed an agreement several years ago with Evry for mainframe services and certain software," said Rolf Frydenberg, Manag-E CEO and spokesperson for the Cloud Security Alliance Nordic Summit.

"Evry was created out of mergers and acquisitions over many years, so internally there are a lot of different ways of doing things. In helping to consolidate old technologies and processes, IBM has become an important strategic partner.

"IBM taking more responsibility for things below the software layer makes a lot of sense. With this arrangement, Evry can put a lot of legacy issues behind it and be more market-focused in the future," he said.

To accelerate the process, Evry has announced it will invest NOK500m in its infrastructure platform over the next three years, giving its Nordic customers access to cloud technology based on IBM's Softlayer platform for the first time.

The EL&IT union, which represents many employees in Evry, claims the announcement will lead to uncertainty in the organisation.

A statement from EL&IT read: "Evry's ambition is to be the leader in the development and operation of IT systems in the Nordic region. The union believes a prerequisite for achieving this goal is a thorough knowledge of customers' development needs. Evry loses this knowledge through the outsourcing of 332 employees who are affected by the new agreement."

The Norwegian media reports an increasing uncertainty amongst Evry employees. This announcement comes hot on the heels of September's report that up to 550 jobs would go from across Evry's Norwegian and Swedish operations.

The deal is subject to approval from the Norwegian competition authority, although industry veteran Frydenberg believes this process is a formality. He said this deal could mark the "coming of age" of cloud adoption in Norway.

"Consumer cloud services are popular, but cloud in enterprise IT still really hasn't taken off in Norway. A lot of cloud-based software-as-a-service systems are only available in English, so this deal should create more Norwegian focus on local cloud systems," said Frydenberg.

"The majority of Norwegian service providers which claim to be cloud providers are very small. To most of us, cloud services means a high-scale environment with thousands of servers, not one rack and a handful of employees. I think this announcement will impact that thinking and perhaps lead to more consolidation across enterprise IT in the Nordics," he said.

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Hundreds of Evry staff in the Nordics to move to IBM in billion-dollar IT outsourcing deal

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Norwegian IT supplier Evry has signed a $1bn IT outsourcing deal with IBM as part of an ongoing business transformation project, which will see 600 members of staff move to the supplier. The deal covers all infrastructure platforms, such as Mainframe, Unix and Wintel, for a period of at least 10 years.

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Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly

IBM has added the Nordic region to its global network of cloud datacentres by opening an Oslo centre, giving organisations in the region direct access to cloud-based technology.

Large enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and startups in the region are being targeted with the offer of cloud-based services such as SAP, VMware, IBM's developer platform Bluemix, plus cognitive computing, the internet of things (IoT), application programming interfaces (API) and analytics services.

The Oslo cloud datacentre is IBM's 48th globally and its 12th in Europe.

Demand for cloud technologies in the Nordic region had reached a point where it required a dedicated centre to give organisations access to cloud-based technology on tap, said IBM.

"We have been investing in cloud datacentres all over the globe," said Jens Hassel, vice-president of IBM Cloud Nordic. "Our strategy is to build these where customer demand is and currently the transformation agenda in the Nordics is extremely high."

Hassel gave the example of IBM's infrastructure services deal with Nordic service provider Evry as a good reason to set up a cloud datacentre in the region. Last year, the Norwegian IT supplier signed a $1bn IT outsourcing deal with IBM as part of an ongoing business transformation project that will see 600 employees move to the supplier.

At the time, Evry said it would invest NOK500m in its infrastructure platform over the next three years, giving its Nordic customers access to cloud technology based on IBM's SoftLayer platform for the first time.

Hassel said IBM's cloud customers in the region included startups and SMEs as well as the likes of Evry, Kone and Finnair. "The startup scene, and SMEs, is really quite significant," he said.

IBM's Global Entrepreneur Programme, which offers small firms access to cloud resources, is generating startups and SME users in the region. The company is also offering cloud courses in the Nordics in partnership with universities.

The Oslo datacentre will be used by about 50 businesses from day one.

IBM also has a point of presence in Stockholm, Sweden, which enables organisations to connect into the global cloud datacentre network via Oslo.

Cloud computing is developing rapidly in Europe, according to the European Commission, which said the European cloud market would be worth €44.8bn by 2020 compared with €9.5bn in 2013.

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refresh(PIX) - Fotolia Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly IBM has added the Nordic region to its global network of cloud datacentres by opening an Oslo centre, giving organisations in the region direct access to cloud-based technology.