ResearchAndMarkets.com Releases The Rise Of The African Cloud 2023: Public Clouds, Sovereign Clouds And The Commercial Case For Enabling Africa’s Digital Transformation
The “The Rise of the African Cloud – 2023: Public Clouds, Sovereign Clouds and the Commercial Case for Enabling Africa’s Digital Transformation” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
“The Rise of the African Cloud – 2023: Public Clouds, Sovereign Clouds and the Commercial Case for Enabling Africa’s Digital Transformation”
The analysis explores key demand considerations, supply factors including infrastructure, market structure and competitive context. It also provides a deep quantitative view of market size and projections, at regional and key country levels.
Building on 12 months of research, dozens of customer and service provider discussions and underpinned by proprietary cloud adoption surveys, this report provides arguably the most in-depth view publicly available into the surging potential of African cloud markets.
African companies are answering the irresistible call of the cloud. From the ability to scale operations, boost innovation and bolster business continuity in the face of inadequate power infrastructure, migrating to the cloud has become a central component of Africa’s digital transformation.
Examples abound. In 2022, financial services group Old Mutual shut down its physical data centres to move its workloads almost entirely to the cloud. Airline company Comair consolidated a footprint of 6 physical data centers into a single cloud deployment. Startups like Cellulant and Kobo 360 continue to lead public cloud adoption, pushing and testing the boundaries of databases and machine learning in the African context.
One of the continent’s largest telcos, MTN has been testing the deployment of the core of its future 5G stand-alone network into the public cloud – a seminal development that would put in the cloud the brains for one of the most significant technology deployments of the next decade.
At last, the African market has entered the age of the cloud, a period of prodigious growth in Internet usage and extensive digitization of Africa’s productive capacity. The African cloud is now a multi-billion-dollar commercial opportunity growing at 25 per cent-30 per cent a year. It is also a highly dynamic and complex marketplace, where hyperscalers compete and partner with a broad range of telcos, data center providers and cloud specialists.
Key Topics Covered:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The African cloud services market in numbers
On the state of cloud adoption in Africa
On private, hybrid, public and multi clouds in Africa
On hyperscaler public cloud infrastructure in Africa – and the rise of sovereign clouds
On the size and growth of the African cloud commercial opportunity
On Africa’s cloud Big Five markets
On the outlook for African cloud markets
The African cloud services market in four key charts
Part I Cloud adoption in Africa: beyond basic awareness to hybrid multi-clouds
State of cloud adoption in Africa: summary highlights
Why African companies migrate to the cloud: operational imperatives
Why African companies migrate to the cloud: business imperatives
Africa has relatively high rates of adoption of cloud productivity applications
Enterprise management applications are moving off-prem, and into the public cloud
African enterprises are adopting more advanced applications – predominantly in the public cloud
Storage is the predominant path into IaaS
The adoption of advanced cloud infrastructure and platform solutions is still relatively low
How enterprises deploy: hybrid deployments are increasingly prevalent
How African enterprises deploy: the rise of silo-ed multi-cloud
Charting Africa’s multiple paths to the cloud
Industry focus: cloud in the African financial services sector
The African financial services sector: the motive, means and opportunity to go to the cloud
Financial services cloud adoption profile
The African financial services sector and the cloud – key charts
African bank IT budgets – a sample view
Part II Public clouds and private clouds
Public cloud infrastructure deployments have intensified
Public cloud infrastructure deployment gaps persist
Hyperscaler hybrid cloud infrastructure deployments have picked up
Will the hybrid cloud negate the need for full-stack regions?
A highly competitive public cloud OEM market
Africa public cloud provider presence
Key public cloud platforms in Africa – a comparative view
A survey of public cloud adoption – Azure and AWS lead the way, but many are not far behind
Who is using the public cloud? Key African corporate customers by platform
The rise of African sovereign clouds
A surge in African data center buildout
Who is building the African sovereign cloud? From hyperscalers to pan-African cloud champions
Of diversified cloud providers and cloud specialists
A strategic mapping of African private cloud providers
Part III How big is the African cloud?
The African cloud services market in numbers
The big picture: macro-economic headwinds and seismic shifts in the African B2B market
Market context: an enterprise market in transition
The African cloud market is hitting its stride
The African cloud migration potential – 10m+ servers in need of outsourcing
The African cloud services market has doubled in size since 2019
The African cloud services opportunity: infrastructure and platforms
Where is Africa’s cloud opportunity? The cloud big five – then everyone else
The outlook: Africa’s great cloud migration marches on
Looking ahead: a flight to the safety of the cloud, despite considerable operating headwinds
Our forecast: Africa’s great migration (to the cloud) marches on
The African cloud opportunity: summary table view
Part IV Africa’s Cloud Big Five Markets
Country analysis: South Africa
The state of cloud in South Africa: a summary view
South Africa cloud: excellent growth in otherwise flat B2B market
South Africa cloud readiness context
State of cloud adoption in South Africa: advanced and looking for mass market
The big picture on cloud adoption in South Africa: deep and hybrid
How SA corporates use the cloud: on prem still strong, and public cloud ahead of private cloud
South Africa cloud usage profile: an overview
South Africa cloud usage profile: hosting setups and cloud journeys
How South African companies migrate to the cloud: colo first, then hybrid setups
South Africa cloud: Strong financial sector adoption, public sector banks on hybrid
South Africa’s financial sector IT spend – a $3bn+ opportunity, more of which is going to the cloud
South African financial sector spending on IT services: rising 3x faster than other operating costs
The SA public sector: still mostly on-prem, but moving gradually towards the public cloud
Breaking down Africa’s most competitive cloud ecosystem
Africa’s most competitive cloud OEM market
Which platforms are customers using? Mostly Azure, but others are racing to catch up
A strategic mapping of the SA cloud ecosystem
South Africa cloud market outlook: more growth ahead, despite (or because of) a tough operating context
The South Africa cloud migration potential – upwards of 3.5m servers
South Africa cloud adoption outlook: a more mature market
Sizing South African cloud market: Africa’s largest cloud opportunity, and by far
The South African cloud opportunity: moderate growth in a tough operating context
South Africa cloud market forecast – table view
Country analysis: Egypt
Country analysis: Nigeria
Country analysis: Kenya
Country analysis: Morocco
Part VI Country analysis: Africa’s other top cloud markets
The state of cloud in Angola: a summary view
The Angola cloud opportunity: solid potential in the midst of a tough operating environment
The state of cloud in Cote-d’Ivoire: a summary view
The Cote-d’Ivoire cloud opportunity: still early stages, with moderate growth ahead
The state of cloud in Ghana: a summary view
The Ghana cloud opportunity: still early stages in a tough market environment
The state of cloud in Senegal: a summary view
The Senegal cloud opportunity: slowly expanding
The state of cloud in Tanzania: a summary view
Tanzania’s cloud opportunity: very early stages
Companies Mentioned
Alibaba Cloud
Altron Karabina
Atlas Cloud Services
AWS
BCX
Cellulant
Csquared
Dimension Data
Huawei Cloud
IBM
Inwi
iOCO
iRoko
Kobo 360
Liquid C2
Main One
Maroc Telecom
Microsoft
N+One
Nedbank
Oracle
Senegal Numerique
SITA
ST Digital
Standard Bank
Synthesis Software
VMWare
Vodacom
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