IBM Middle East has taken its Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC) to the Middle East, showcasing it in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

It also plans to showcase the all-in-one data center solution, which comes with both the shell, equipment inside and services attached to setting it up, at coming events in Jeddah, Riyadh, Cairo and Casablanca.

The PMDC is essentially a shipping container which comes with its own power and cooling systems and remote monitoring. IBM said the PMDC is also resistant to smoke, fire, humidity and temperature changes and can be deployed in any location.

IBM provides support for multiple vendors with equipment used inide the PMDC, according to IBM Middle East general manager Amr Refaat.

"PMDCs facilitate the expansion of existing data processing capability in remote or temporary environments for organizations while allowing for the rapid deployment of a complete turnkey data center that enables improved performance, higher density computing and greater cost-efficiency," Refaat said.

Refaat said that businesses in the middle east are finding it difficult to keep up with IT demand there and have been forced to install and operate high density computing, which he said is a challenge with a majority of pre-existing data centers unable to support this.

He said a PMDC can be deployed in any location, providing vendor-neutral high-density compute processing for any rack mount technology.