Africa’s current and future investment in data centres to be discussed in Monaco

Investors in data centres and cloud development set to meet at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco to discuss current and future investment in data centers, connectivity via subsea cables and dark fiber, energy supply, cloud, IT investment, risk and the availability of funding in Africa.

International consulting company BroadGroup, who research and produce Datacloud, will provide a Market Assessment and Outlook for the Africa data centre landscape.

“Africa infrastructure is a growth story for the next decade,” commented Philip Low, Managing Director of BroadGroup. “We are seeing the emergence of carrier neutral data centres, and importantly IP peering exchanges that will spur hosting and cloud growth over the next 24 months in several countries. But the summit hopes to create more investor led opportunities as well as assess the risk and prospects.”

Infrastructure investment and challenges faced by Africa will take center stage during the Summit with energy being among them. Case studies and empirical examples will be showcased, contributing to a realistic perspective for data centre investors.

The one-day Summit will be on 8^th June, 2016 as Datacloud 2016 is Europe’s foremost networking and business deal making forum for data centre and cloud players, their customers, investors and suppliers