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UAE cloud market set for 43.7% growth until 2016: IDC

  • United Arab Emirates: 5 hours, 16 minutes ago

According to a report by IDC, businesses in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region face significant transition and data storage challenges as the regional cloud market continues to grow, PC Advisor has reported. Emerging markets, which include the Mena region, will witness the fastest growth in cloud spending anywhere in the world, collectively growing at 44.1% until 2016, said the report. The UAE cloud market alone is set for a compound annual growth rate of 43.7% until 2016, it said. This means that the share of cloud spending by emerging markets almost double from 13% in 2011 to 24.9% in 2016, which will account for almost 30% of net-new public IT cloud services spending growth, the IDC said.

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