Press release

London, 19/01/2011

Data Centre Markets in Africa -

Review of the commercial facilities, challenges and opportunities
in 2011

With the arrival of several international cables on both sides of the

continent, the stage has been set for the growth of Africa’s data centre
market. For data centres are a key ingredient of the nascent telecoms and
IT infrastructure in Africa. Their facilities enable safe storage, back up and
fast transmission of vast amount of data locally.

In 2011, the outlook for the growing data centre market in Africa is very
promising, with various degrees of roll-out and the steady build-up of
services associated with them. In some parts of Africa such as in South
African, the data centre market is booming in anticipation of the new
bandwidth that will be supplied by the new WACS cable later this year, but
several regions remain untapped although local corporate demand is
growing.

These are the key findings of a unique and comprehensive market report
undertaken by Balancing Act on the African data centre market which has
been published on 19 January 2011.

Building on the extensive market research and consulting work

undertaken by Balancing Act in the ICT sector carried out over the past 11
years, this new report - which required three researchers carrying out over
7 months of research - analyses the current environment, key trends,
business issues, opportunities and future developments in the market.
It assesses the "shared" data centre landscape by country and by facility
type. Altogether, the reports highlights 108 "shared" data centre facilities
in 11 African countries including projects about to be completed.

The report also answers the question "where to build new data centres in
Africa?" by reviewing ideal data centre locations, their economic and
political status, available power grid and access to bandwidth from an
investors' perspective.

This includes analysis for each selected country with relevant market
segmentation, locations' strengths and weaknesses, key builds and major
new planned builds in 2011.

A chapter dedicated to pricing and another one focused on market drivers

bring extra ammunitions to potential investors.

The research also provides its reader with an African Data Centre contact
directory, a directory of companies engaged in selling services into the
African data centre sector, maps, 70 tables packed with detailed market
indicators.

It closes with recommendations for both Data Centre builders, government

agencies and service providers, as well as with trends' forecasts in the
years to come.

The report will save research time and money and is essential reading for
anyone involved, or planning to engage in the African data centre sector.

Who should read this report? Data centre owners, telecoms operators,
telco vendors, IT suppliers, investors, government and development
agencies, regulators, CDN providers, content aggregators, audiovisual
content suppliers, IT integrators, electricity suppliers, estate builders and
professional services suppliers.

Publication date: 1st. January 2011

Number of pages: 122 + excel tables
Materials: 1 PDF + 2 directories
Format: PDF and excel

Source: Balancing-Act

Authors: Pablo Diantina, Sylvain Béletre, Russell Southwood.

Price:

• 1 user licence: GBP 2000

• unlimited, corporate-wide user licence: GBP 3000
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Table of contents:
Executive Summary

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Research scope, methodology and objectives

Classifications

Data Centre Segmentation

Other definitions

Business continuity and disaster recovery

PUE

Systems integrator

Web 2.0

Data centre objectives

Key drivers for data centres in Africa

Barriers and challenges for data centres in Africa

Basic guide to Data Centre Business Models

Cost of Power in large-scale data centres

Country Profiles

South Africa - Data Centres

 The Economy

Connectivity

Market Overview

Energy

Services

Egypt - Data Centres

The Economy

Connectivity

Market Overview

Energy

Services

Tunisia - Data Centres

The Economy

Connectivity

Market Overview

Energy

Services

Morocco - Data Centres

The Economy

Connectivity
 Market Overview

Energy

Services

Algeria - Data Centres

The Economy

Connectivity

Market Overview

Energy

Services

Kenya - Data Centres

The Economy

Connectivity

Market Overview

Energy

Services

Mauritius - Data Centres

The Economy

Connectivity

Market Overview

Energy
 Services

Nigeria - Data Centres

The Economy

Connectivity

Market Overview

Energy

Services

Ghana - Data Centres

The Economy

Connectivity

Market Overview

Energy

Services

Senegal - Data Centres

The Economy

Connectivity

Market Overview

Energy

Services

Angola - Data Centres

 The Economy

Connectivity

Market Overview

Energy

Services

Conclusions

Tables, Charts and Maps

Table 1: Data Centre accreditation

Chart 1: Costs of running high-end data centre

Table 2: Cost assumptions in the business model

Table 3: Green data centres cost model

Table 4: Co-location pricing

Map of South Africa

Table 5: South Africa economic indicators

Table 6: Market segmentation for Data Centres

Table 7: Sample from Investments in Data Centres – South Africa (2008-

2010)

Table 8: Data Centre locations in South Africa

Table 9: Power pricing

Chart 2: Infrastructure hosting services market 2009

Table 10: Service Delivery Capacity in South Africa

Table 11: South Africa: Existing and Planned Data Centres – 2011

Map of Egypt

Table 12: Egypt Economic Indicators

Map Noor Network Coverage of Egypt main cities

Table 13: Data Centres market segmentation in Egypt

Table 14: Co-location price in Cairo, October 2010

Table 15: Bandwidth price in Cairo, 10/2010

Table 16: Co-location price reseller in Egypt, October 2010

Table 17: Co-location price in Egypt, October 2010

Table 18: Data Centre locations in Egypt

Table 19: Service Delivery Capacity in Egypt

Table 20: Egypt Existing and Planned Data Centre Facilities – 2011

Map of Tunisia

Table 21: Tunisia Economic Indicators

Table 22: Data Centres market segmentation in Tunisia

Table 23: Data Centre locations in Tunisia

Table 24: Service Delivery Capacity in Tunisia

Table 25: Tunisia Existing and Planned Data Centre Facilities - 2011

Map of Morocco

Table 26: Morocco Economic Indicators

Table 27: Data Centres market segmentation in Morocco

Table 28: Data Centre locations in Morocco

Table 29: Service Delivery Capacity in Morocco

Table 30: Morocco: Existing and Planned Data Centre Facilities – 2011

Map of Algeria

Table 31: Algeria Economic Indicators

Table 32: Data Centres market segmentation in Algeria

Table 33: Data Centre locations in Algeria

Map of International electrical links with Algeria

Table 34: Service Delivery Capacity in Algeria

Table 35: Algeria: Existing and Planned Data Centre Facilities – 2011

Map of Kenya

Table 36: Kenya Economic Indicators

Table 37: Data Centres market segmentation in Kenya

Table 38: Data Centre and Co-location facilities in Kenya

Table 39: Power downtime

Table 40: Service Delivery Capacity in Kenya

Table 41: Kenya: Existing and Planned Data Centre Facilities – 2011

Map of Mauritius

Table 42: Mauritius Economic Indicators

Table 43: Data Centres market segmentation in Mauritius

Table 44: Data Centre locations in Mauritius

Table 45: Power pricing in Mauritius

Table 46: Service Delivery Capacity in Mauritius

Table 47: Mauritius: Existing and Planned Data Centre Facilities – 2011

Map of Nigeria

Table 48: Nigeria Economic Indicators

Map of KKNTECH Network Coverage of Nigeria main cities

Table 49: Data Centres market segmentation in Nigeria

Table 50: Data Centre locations in Nigeria

Table 51: Breakdown of the Nigerian Power Sector Capacity

Table 52: Service Delivery Capacity in Nigeria

Table 53: Nigeria: Existing and Planned Data Centre Facilities – 2011

Map of Ghana

Table 54: Ghana Economic Indicators

Table 55: Data Centres market segmentation in Ghana

Table 56: Data Centre locations in Ghana

Table 57: Service Delivery Capacity in Ghana

Table 58: Ghana: Existing and Planned Data Centres – 2011

Map of Senegal
Table 59: Senegal Economic Indicators

Table 60: Data Centres market Segmentation in Senegal

Table 61: Data Centre locations in Senegal

Table 62: Service Delivery Capacity in Senegal

Table 63: Senegal: Existing and Planned Data Centres – 2011

Map of Angola

Table 64: Angola Economic Indicators

Table 65: Data Centres market segmentation in Angola

Table 66: Data Centre locations in Angola

Table 67: Service Delivery Capacity in Angola

Table 68: Angola: Existing and Planned Data Centre Facilities – 2011

Table 69: Overall summary totals of data centres by country

Table 70: Shared data centres in Africa – By country and data centre type

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If you have any questions, please contact:

Sylvain Béletre

Balancing-Act

ICT, telecoms and audiovisual media in Africa

Media, Consultancy and Research

Tel: +33 1 7551 4118

Cell: +33 615752281

Email: sbeletre@balancingact-africa.com

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