Cloud, Mobility, and Big Data in the North Africa region: trends, drivers and complexities.

The emerging technologies such as Cloud, Mobility, and Big Data/Analytics are the critical factors for the flexibility, scalability, agility, productivity and performance that enterprises need and are looking for.

The North Africa region undergoes these influences. Particularly in this region, when it comes to Cloud and its corollaries, a large proportion of deployments will be conducted via the public cloud model because organizations and a set of enterprises will be unable to find the skilled staff and critical resources to implement and run such environments in their own private infrastructures. 

Therefore, this will raise its own set of complexities as organizations become open to new vulnerability points, and will result in the focus across the region being not only on solutions deployment, but also on the implementation of advanced security policies.

According to International Data Corporation's newly released predictionsfor the year 2015, the telecommunications, banking and finance, and government sectors will continue to top the region's IT spending charts in 2015. But the offerings will continue to be hampered by a lack of adaptation to local market needs. The proliferation of low-priced smartphones will see feature phones edge ever closer to extinction.