African Data Center Market 2017: Why International Colo Operators are Not Here Yet & Why They are Coming

Premium version of the Africa Data Center Report, including more than 50 supporting charts and data points in Excel format, along with a 20-slide Executive Summary Presentation.The African Multi-Tenant Data Center (MTDC) market has entered a new phase of growth, one that should see deeper adoption in core markets, and a broader, more distributed data center service penetration beyond the core. The harbingers of this impending data center market growth have been building up for years. African broadband is booming; the number of connections has passed the 200 million mark and should grow by an average of nearly 20% over the next five years. Fiber connectivity prices are declining, workload migration to the cloud is accelerating, data privacy and sovereignty concerns are gaining ground, and a new breed of consumer and enterprise digital natives are putting new demands on African Internet networks. These and other factors are driving the race to bring the brains of the African Internet...

Premium version of the Africa Data Center Report, including more than 50 supporting charts and data points in Excel format, along with a 20-slide Executive Summary Presentation.

The African Multi-Tenant Data Center (MTDC) market has entered a new phase of growth, one that should see deeper adoption in core markets, and a broader, more distributed data center service penetration beyond the core. The harbingers of this impending data center market growth have been building up for years. African broadband is booming; the number of connections has passed the 200 million mark and should grow by an average of nearly 20% over the next five years. Fiber connectivity prices are declining, workload migration to the cloud is accelerating, data privacy and sovereignty concerns are gaining ground, and a new breed of consumer and enterprise digital natives are putting new demands on African Internet networks.

These and other factors are driving the race to bring the brains of the African Internet back to the continent, in the process transforming the African data center colocation business into one of the hottest growth segments in the African ICT market. This transformation is at the heart of this report, the second edition of our "Africa Data Center Rises" series.

Leveraging months of research, dozens of interviews, extensive data collections and new analytical tools for data center analysis and geo-mapping, the "African Data Center Rises - How the Race to the Cloud is Transforming African Colocation Markets" report provides an unprecedented view into the dynamics underpinning the African MTDC colocation market.

The report explores key questions surrounding the African MTDC colocation market from the mundane, yet critical (how many colo data centers are there exactly in Africa, how big is the market, who are the key players), to the more incisive, if complicated (Can African colo players survive on colo only, should African telcos sell their data center assets, how much is Teraco worth, which markets are the most attractive, etc.)

A reference report for all players and investors in the African colocation and cloud markets.

The insights derived from our research on African data center colocation markets are distilled in this report, covering critical key questions and points, including:

Key Topics Covered:

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: THE AFRICAN DATA CENTER IS STILL RISING

2. PART I - THE NUMBERS

3. WHAT IS THE SIZE OF THE AFRICAN COLOCATION MARKET?

4. WHAT IS THE DEMAND POTENTIAL FOR AFRICAN MTDC COLOCATION?

5. WHAT IS THE REVENUE SIZE & OUTLOOK FOR AFRICAN MTDC COLOCATION?

6. THE COMPETITIVE STRUCTURE OF THE AFRICAN MTDC COLOCATION MARKET: OF "TRUE" CARRIER-NEUTRAL, TELCO DCs, AND IT PLAYERS

7. PART II - BEHIND THE NUMBERS: ANSWERING KEY QUESTIONS

8. PART III - COUNTRY FOCUS

9. KENYA: READY FOR TAKE-OFF

10. NIGERIA: THE GIANT IS STILL SLEEPING

11. MOROCCO: PROMISING, BUT STILL CONSTRAINED

12. TUNISIA: AFRICA'S BEST HIDDEN COLO SECRET

Companies Mentioned

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