Intelligent Data Centres Issue 12 | Page 27

PROJECT FOCUS MIDDLE EAST IBM Services has announced two IBM Data Centres in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one in Abu Dhabi and the other in Dubai, to provide cloud managed services to enterprises and help accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud. IBM Services is the services and consultancy arm of IBM. The local data centres will help organisations shift to a hybrid cloud model, and benefit from having the flexibility to move select critical workloads to a secure local cloud environment, hosted in the UAE while keeping mission critical data on-premise. AFRICA Teraco has announced that VMware Cloud is now available via VMware Cloud Verified service providers in the Cape Town (CT1) and Johannesburg (JB1) data centre facilities. VMware Cloud provides a fast and easy way to migrate existing enterprise application workloads to the cloud and the VMware Cloud Verified logo will mean the full set of capabilities of VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure can be easily accessed. www.intelligentdatacentres.com Issue 12 27