There will be no significant growth in enterprise hardware in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region for 2016 despite promising, rising trends in converged systems and cloud computing. Blame “challenging economic and political conditions” says a new report by International Data Corporation (IDC).



Global economic meltdown, plummeting revenue from crude oil export which underscores much of the FOREX of many countries in the MEA would mean that growth will stay flat for enterprise hardware market comprising servers and external storage when compared to the annual revenues seen in the previous year. According to http://itedgenews.com/2016/04/13/2016-will-chilled-growth-server-market-africa-middle-east/



Notably, the Africa enterprise hardware market which suffered a 5% year-on-year downturn in value in 2015 will limp further with no thanks to currency depreciation in key markets like South Africa and Nigeria, along with political instability in several pockets of Africa.