A recently released survey from Cisco and World Wide Worx, The Cloud in Africa: Reality Check 2013, suggest that businesses in Nigeria will be using more cloud basis services than in South Africa by the end of 2014.
The survey also suggests that Nigeria will also leap over Kenya in the process.
The report found this 50% of South Africa’s medium and large businesses are currently using cloud services, compared to 48%t in Kenya and 36% in Nigeria.
Moving forward however, 44% of Nigerian businesses say they expect to adopt the cloud by the end of 2014, compared to just 16% in South Africa and 24% in Kenya.
“Cloud computing is the next big step in the evolution of computing and the internet,” said David Meads, Cisco’s vice president for Africa. “The broadband revolution sweeping Africa and the continent’s reputation for innovation add up to tremendous appetite for services that will drive this evolution.”
