Public Cloud Services Market Will Grow 19% in Middle East, North Africa in 2016

The public cloud services market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is projected to grow to 19.3 percent in 2016 to total $ 880 million, up from an estimated $737 million in 2015, according to Gartner analysts.

Business Process as a Service (BPaaS), the largest segment of the cloud services market in MENA, is expected to grow 7.3 percent year over year  in 2016 to reach $266.2 million.

The fastest-growing market, cloud management and security services, is projected to grow 29.3 percent in 2016, year over year.

Gartner predicts that in 2019, total public cloud services spending in the MENA region will rise to $1.45 billion, with Software as a Service accounting for 22.6 percent of the market.

followed by Cloud Management and Security, growing 21 percent, and Infrastructure as a Service growing 19 percent in 2019, year over year.