Middle East and North Africa: About to Get Cloudy!

Cloud and its various “as a service” opportunities are about to see some major growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the next 4 years.

Research firm, Gartner, published a new report projecting stats for the MENA region in 2013.

It is predicted the more rapidly growing cloud-based services will include Business Process as a service (BPaaS) as well as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The cloud market will also see “dynamic” growth in Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service arenas through 2016.

Perhaps the most interesting projection of all is that, “Cloud advertising will grow from $56.6 billion in 2012 to $192 billion in 2016 and will be the single largest source of spending within the cloud services marketplace.”

CSC has the largest active cloud data center footprint in the world…maybe Africa is next on our map! What do you think?

Read the entire CloudTimes article on Gartner’s MENA projections.