IBM has announced that it is opening a new IBM Cloud Data Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. The new cloud center is the result of a close collaboration with Gijima and Vodacom and is designed to support cloud adoption and customer demand across the continent. IBM will provide clients with a complete portfolio of cloud services for running enterprise and as a service workloads.

The new facility underscores IBM's growing cloud footprint, which now includes 46 cloud data centers across six continents. Today's news also reinforces the joint partnership between SAP and IBM aimed at accelerating a customers' ability to run core business in the cloud.