Opportunities in the African Cloud Market 2021: Assessing African Readiness and Demand for Cloud Services

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Mar 15, 2021, 12:15 ET

DUBLIN, March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The "The Rise Of The African Cloud - 2021: How Global And Local Cloud Platforms Are Powering Africa's Digital Economy" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The African cloud is rising. This research finds that the use of standard cloud services is already widespread in the African continent, turbocharged by the COVID-19 pandemic. Cloud-based office applications are increasingly vital components of the African modern workplace. The rise of the cloud in the African market ostensibly goes beyond basic office applications. From banks looking to accelerate the rollout of new applications to startups disrupting entire industries with innovative, cloud-powered models, cloud services are transforming Africa's productive capacity and emerging as one of the most essential pillars of Africa's digital transformation.

There is some way to go, for Africa is, in truth, a tough place for cloud services. Many countries do not offer adequate, affordable, broadband speeds; latency to cloud data centers is too high from many locations. And perhaps most of all, the cloud is fundamentally about putting trust in what you cannot see, in a region where seeing and touching are essential to trust. All the same, the upside is considerable - and cloud services represent an opportunity that only the undiscerning would be prompt to dismiss.

This report is an extensive attempt to frame and quantify this opportunity. It is about the near-term economic, commercial and investor upside presented by the rapid adoption of cloud services in the African market.

From banks looking to accelerate the rollout of new applications to startups disrupting entire industries with innovative, cloud-powered models, cloud services are transforming Africa's productive capacity and emerging as one of the most essential pillars of Africa's digital transformation. The report is a comprehensive analysis on African private and public cloud services markets, including analysis of enterprise demand and cloud migration dynamics; market sizing and forecasting; competitive analysis; and much, much more.

Key Topics Covered:

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

On market readiness and the broader state of cloud adoption
On why, and how African enterprises are moving to the cloud
On financial services and public sector cloud migration
On the impact of hyperscale cloud providers in the African IT competitive landscape
On the size and growth potential of cloud services in Africa
The African cloud market: a snapshot

PART I ASSESSING AFRICAN READINESS AND DEMAND FOR CLOUD SERVICES

How ready is the African market for cloud services?
About the Cloud Index - assessing cloud adoption maturity
From infrastructure to market impetus, five main dimensions
From infrastructure to market impetus, five main dimensions
From cloud aspirants to cloud leaders - key Africa cloud maturity categories
African cloud maturity has made a big leap
Sample Africa cloud readiness radars
What is the state of cloud adoption in Africa?
From cloud awareness to usage to migration - a widening gap
Why are African companies migrating to the cloud?
Why are African companies migrating to the cloud? Stability, security, scalability
Why are African enterprises NOT moving to the public cloud (faster)?
The public cloud in Africa - assessing usage patterns
The public cloud in Africa - when a low trust, high touch culture meets a high trust, low touch concept
Key obstacles to the adoption of cloud services in Africa - what our surveys say
How are African enterprises using, and migrating to the cloud?
Which cloud applications do African enterprises use? SaaS first, but IaaS is picking up
Charting the African approaches to cloud migration
African migration to the cloud - a rough mapping by industry vertical
What our surveys say - approach to cloud migration

PART II THE CLOUD CASE FOR AFRICA'S FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR, PUBLIC SECTOR AND STARTUPS

African Banks' migration to the cloud: motive, means and opportunity
Financial services cloud adoption - SaaS is highly popular
African bank migration to the cloud: forerunners, laggards and hybrid models
Financial services approaches to cloud migration - a mapping
Breaking down the financial services cloud migration model(s)
African banks and the cloud - charting Africa's biggest tech spenders
The African public sector: leveraging the cloud to transform service delivery
African public sector digital transformation and a COVID-19 moment
From ministries to NGOs - a complex maze of cloud adoption patterns
African public sector approaches to cloud migration - a mapping
Migrating to the cloud - key African public sector patterns
A strong cloud adoption outlook
African public sector cloud outlook - key charts
How African startups use the cloud
Overview - Startups and the cloud
How African startups use the cloud
Which platforms do African startups use?

PART III MSPs, HYPERSCALE AND THE EXPLODING AFRICAN CLOUD COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

What is the cloud outlook for the African MSP?
A mixed landscape for the African managed service provider - challenging and exciting
African managed service providers and the mid-market, small business opportunity
The African MSP value proposition - local is lekker
The African MSP challenge - mistrust, and the high cost of expertise
Africa's large system integrators - a mixed outlook
Africa's cloud specialists - the rising stars
Africa's cloud providers - from hybrid plays to generalists
The hyperscale cloud in Africa
Hyperscale cloud overview
Global cloud provider Africa infrastructure - a snapshot
Which cloud platforms are African enterprises using?
Key African customers by public cloud platform
Hyperscale cloud player overview - the leaders
Hyperscale cloud player overview - the challengers

PART IV CLOUD MARKET SIZE AND OUTLOOK: THE NUMBERS

How big is the African cloud opportunity?
A seismic shift in African enterprise spending on ICT
A seismic shift in the African enterprise market - and the increasing weight of IT services
African cloud services - inching towards the $3bn ARR mark
Key cloud markets: South Africa and financial services
How big is the African public cloud opportunity?
The last frontier for the public cloud
Africa public cloud - it's a SaaS world - but IaaS is rising fast
Africa public cloud growth - key charts
Forecasting the African cloud
Our Africa cloud forecasts
Our Africa public cloud forecast
Table - Africa top 10 markets - Total managed cloud services revenue
Table - Africa top 10 markets - Public cloud services revenue

PART V COUNTRY ANALYSIS: FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO NIGERIA, SOME CLOUD MARKET SNAPSHOTS

South Africa
Kenya
Nigeria

Companies Mentioned

Alibaba Cloud
Altron
AWS
BCX
Cellulant
Dimension Data
Discovery Bank
EOH
Equity Bank
Gijima
Google
Huawei Cloud
IBM
iRoko
Konbo 360
Konga
Liquid Telecom
Maroc Telecom
Microsoft
Nedbank
NIBSS
Node Africa
Oracle
Routed Hosting
Salesforce
Siatik
SITA
ST Digital
Standard Bank
Sterling Bank
Synthesis Software
T-Systems
VMWare
Vodacom
Wragby

For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/oajb9k

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