IBM Services has launched two IBM data centres in the UAE, one in Abu Dhabi and the other in Dubai. The company revealed that the reasoning behind the launch of the two data centres is to provide cloud managed services to enterprises and help accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud. The local data centres is set to help organizations 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. The company added that the data centres will not only omit the need to invest in additional physical space for local data residency, but help organizations abide by their data sovereignty requirements and restrictions.