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Cloud services market in North Africa to grow by 25%
Information technology (IT) research firm, Gartner, predicts that the Middle East and North Africa’s (MENA) cloud service market could grow its revenue by 24.5% to $462.3 million in 2013.
According to Gartner this is the result of that region’s public cloud services market, which grew by 13.4% in 2012 to $371.2 million, compared to $110 billion worldwide.
It was further reported that business process services, the largest segment in the cloud services market, accounted for 38% of the total Middle East and North African market last year.
Within the MENA region, some of the highest growth is expected to be in the software as a service (SaaS) segment, where cloud-based office suites and enterprise resource planning solutions grow rapidly, it was reported.
Earlier this year research firm Pyramid Research found that South Africa’s total cloud computing revenues could reach $245 million by 2017.
The study showed that the country’s large enterprise and public sector segments could be the main drivers of the expected revenues.
Original article by Simnikiwe Mzekandaba published on 14 February 2013
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