MEA 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: Regulatory harmonisation and national cyber-strategies across Middle East and Africa are driving a governance-first approach to recovery design, elevating continuity from an IT project to a public-policy concern. A clear non-vendor inflection arrived in Feb-2023 when Dubai published its Cyber Security Strategy, which pushed public and private operators to formalise rehearsal programmes and harden restore-evidence practices across critical services. That regional policy momentum compels organisations to prioritise auditable retention, multi-site rehearsal calendars and jurisdiction-aware failover corridors; procurement now favours suppliers that can demonstrate governance-grade restore proofs and pre-staged fallback capacity inside compliant metros rather than simple offsite storage options.

Industry Player Insights: Prominent companies shaping the region’s competitive tone include G42, e&, Khazna Data Centers, and DarkMatter etc. Competitive attention concentrates on who can convert expanding sovereign capacity into certified recovery corridors. G42 and e& moved the infrastructure needle in 2024 by combining their data-centre assets to create a larger UAE-centric platform under the Khazna umbrella, improving low-latency staging options for regional customers. DarkMatter complemented the capacity story by expanding its incident-response and secure-recovery advisory services during 2024, giving buyers stronger options for forensic-backed restores. These vendor developments push buyers toward integrated offerings that marry sovereign staging, tested runbooks and forensic-grade recovery assurance.