SA Cloud Market Report 2024
Introduction
This report will focus on two primary areas of analysis:
- The significant global trends shaping the cloud services markets, and their impact on the local market and players.
- The status of cloud computing services in South Africa, major new initiatives, rate of cloud adoption, and impact on the competitive market structure.
Methodology
- Research conducted included extensive secondary research and selected face-to-face interviews with leaders of various Cloud OEM and System Integrators service provider organisations in South Africa.
- A survey was also conducted with 949 respondents who were knowledgeable on cloud in their organisation and on their usage of cloud.
- A bottom-up and top-down analysis was undertaken to arrive at market estimations and forecast.
Report Content
- Introduction
- Table of Contents
Cloud Definitions
- Acronyms
- Cloud Computing definition
- Five essential Cloud Computing characteristics
- Cloud Actors
- Cloud Computing Taxonomy
- Cloud Computing Reference Architecture
- Cloud Service Management
- Cloud Security Framework
- Cloud Computing service models
- Cloud Computing service model applications
- Cloud Deployment Models
- Cloud Deployment Models (cont)
- Cloud Platform stack management
International Cloud Trends
- Worldwide Public Cloud End-User Spending
- Worldwide Public Cloud Services End-User Spending Forecast
- International cloud usage
- International cloud trends
- Public cloud adoption trends growth from 2021-2024
- Public cloud adoption of Enterprises compared to Small Medium Businesses (SMBs)
- Top challenges of international cloud users
- Public Cloud services used for all organisations.
Cloud Regulation and Governance
- South African National Data and Cloud policy
- Protection of Personal Information Act
- SARB regulations
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- United States Cloud Act
- The European AI Act
Local Cloud Market Survey
- Local Cloud Market Study Methodology
- Market Segmentation
- Key business drivers of technology adoption
- Key challenges with technology adoption
- Cloud Maturity
- Cloud Motivation
- Cloud Challenges
- Cloud Use Cases
- Cloud Service Providers
Local Market Drivers from an Industry point of view
- Drivers Summary
- Cloud Cost Management and Optimisation
- Data Security, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- Transformation, Innovation and Speed-to-Market underpinning competitive advantage
- E-commerce Cloud Platforms
- Data Analytics driving decision making
- Containerisation, Microservices, and Automation
- Hybrid Cloud remains the deployment model of choice
- Artificial Intelligence is accelerating in the Cloud
Inhibitors
- Inhibitors Summary
- Rising costs for existing cloud users
- Cloud skills increasingly in short supply
- Governance and Compliance
- Legacy solutions feeds resistance to migrate to Cloud
- Cloud vendor lock-in
- Identifying the optimal work model
Local Trends
- Trends Summary
- Increasing Cloud demand from Small & Mid-market organisations
- Cloud-native development
- Edge computing and IoT
- Cloud Marketplaces
- Sustainable Cloud Computing
- Internal use of Artificial Intelligence on own data
Local Cloud Industry Dynamics
- Local Cloud Industry Dynamics
- Local cloud industry dynamics (continued
- Cloud Managed Services
Market Sizing
- SA Cloud Computing market sizing estimate
- SA Infrastructure as a Service Market Sizing
- SA Platform as a Service Market Sizing
- SA Software as a Service Market Sizing
- SA Cloud enablement and managed services estimate
Selected Cloud Channel Profiles
- Altron
- BCX
- Dimension Data
- iOCO
- Synthesis
- Silicon Sky
- First for Cloud
- Tarsus on Demand
- Vodacom
Hyperscaler Profiles
- Global cloud competitive positioning
- AWS
- Microsoft
- Google Cloud
- Oracle
- Huawei
- VMWare
- IBM
Deliverables and format
- PDF PowerPoint format
- Clients are also entitled to a presentation/workshop in Johannesburg (may be combined with other topics at BMIT’s discretion)
Further information
For further information and details on how to subscribe to this research please contact Anita Mathews on 011 540 800 |082 466 2317 | anita@bmit.africa