FEATURE: DATA CENTRES
70%
Data Centre space has
increased in the UAE
and Saudi Arabian
markets alone by more
than 60% since 2012
of new storage and
50% of computing
technologies will reside
hyper-scaled data
centres by 2017
Source – IDC
Source: TCL Data Centre Middle
East – 2015 (DCME) Report
Global data centre
cooling market is
anticipated to grow from
$6.26 billion in 2015 to
reach $11.85 billion by
2020
Source- Research & Markets
Telecoms Provider still accounts
for the majority of Data Centre
space in the region, with providers
such as Mobily (Saudi Arabia,
Ooredoo (Qatar) and Etisalat
(UAE) all having a substantial
Data Centre presence in the
Middle East
Source: TCL Data Centre Middle East –
2015 (DCME) Report
UAE saw the introduction
of the region’s first
Internet Exchange (called
UAE-IX) in 2013, which is
managed by the German
DC-CIX Internet Exchange
Source: TCL Data Centre Middle
East – 2015 (DCME) Report
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