GCC Cloud Disaster Recovery and Backup Service Market Size and Forecast by Offering, Organization Size, Subscription Model, Sales Channel, and End User Industry: 2019-2033

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Industry Assessment Overview

Industry Findings: GCC states are converging on stricter data-residency and continuity controls, reframing recoverability as a regulatory imperative for critical sectors. A salient non-vendor signal came in Oct-2025 when regional analysis highlighted accelerated moves to harmonise cyber and continuity requirements across Gulf regulators, pressing firms to document cross-border restore plans and to adopt tested replication templates. This policy-driven alignment shortens vendor evaluation cycles for providers that can guarantee residency, deterministic replication SLAs and validated rehearsal outputs; procurement increasingly treats sovereign availability and legal clarity as primary selection criteria for continuity contracts.

Industry Player Insights: Companies including STC Solutions, Etisalat (e&), Zain Group, and G42 etc. play a defining role in GCC. Providers are racing to offer onshore vaulting plus managed recovery orchestration. STC Solutions reinforced its cloud and managed DR roadmap in 2024, adding packaged orchestration and local retention tiers to its enterprise portfolio. Etisalat and Zain both expanded datacentre and interconnect options through 2024–2025, improving local staging choices for backup and rehearsal runs. Collectively these vendor initiatives reduce cross-border friction for buyers and push procurement toward partners that can provide certified, low-latency recovery fabrics across the Gulf.