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Investors in Data Centers in Africa Heading to Monaco for First Ever Summit
Infrastructure investment and challenges faced by Africa will take center stage during the Summit with energy being among them
MONACO, Monaco, March 22, 2016/
-- In the first event of its kind, an exciting one-day Summit will meet
in Monaco to explore the next phase of data center and cloud
development across the continent.
Invest in Data Center Africa (http://www.DataCloudCongress.com/africa) -collocated at Datacloud Europe – will meet at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco on 8th June 2016
to discuss current and future investment in Africa data centers,
connectivity via subsea cables and dark fiber, energy supply, cloud, IT
investment, risk and the availability of funding.
The program
will feature a host of inspiring top level speakers from both investor
organizations and operating companies in Africa and internationally.
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.
Datacloud 2016 is Europe's foremost
networking and business deal making forum for data center and cloud
players, their customers, investors and suppliers. Attracting 1800+
executives from more than 60 countries as well as 90+ exhibiting
companies, delivering a unique networking opportunity and to secure
real-time deals.
Sponsor and exhibitors should take early action
to assure participation in what will be EMEAs largest networking event
including this highly targeted summit for Africa.
Distributed by APO (African Press Organization) on behalf of Invest in Data Center Africa.
http://www.DataCloudCongress.com/africa
@InvestDCAfrica @DatacloudEurope
For more information contact:
John Vather
+ 44 (0) 207 199 5732
john.vather@broad-group.com
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Invest in Data Center Africa
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