Industry Findings: In Qatar, cloud storage demand continues to rise as enterprises and government entities expand digital services, analytics platforms, and regulated data retention. Object and file storage support collaboration tools, citizen services, and archival workloads, while block storage remains essential for enterprise applications and transactional systems. Hybrid deployment remains prevalent as organizations balance public cloud scalability with sovereignty and operational resilience requirements. A structural development emerged during 2024, when regulatory focus on data governance and service continuity increased scrutiny on storage practices, retention controls, and recovery testing. That environment encouraged enterprises to reassess storage placement and expand resilient archival capacity. Through 2025, storage consumption has continued to grow steadily as retained data from public sector and enterprise systems accumulates.
Industry Player Insights: Qatar’s cloud storage landscape is increasingly influenced by hyperscale platforms strengthening regional service depth. During Nov-2024, Google Cloud expanded object storage support for analytics and digital workloads serving Qatari organizations. In May-2025, the provider enhanced lifecycle management features to support long-term retention efficiency. In parallel, Google Cloud continues to support enterprise cloud storage adoption in Qatar through scalable object, file, and block storage services aligned with national data governance requirements.