Zimbabwe 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 tightening has recast recoverability as a statutory obligation rather than a voluntary resilience exercise, forcing organisations to align retention and restore practices with new compliance mechanics. That structural pivot gained clarity in Jan-2025 when legal summaries and practitioner notes described the Cyber and Data Protection (Licensing of Data Controllers and Appointment of Data Protection Officers) Regulations, 2024 and their enforcement implications for licence, reporting and data-handling duties. The non-vendor rule changes require firms to demonstrate how they will restore personal and operational data under supervisory review, prompting infrastructure owners and large enterprise IT teams to prioritise auditable retention provenance, locally staged immutable copies and scheduled restore rehearsals. Procurement therefore favours suppliers that can provide legally defensible custody controls, evidence-grade rehearsal outputs and in-country staging to reduce cross-border legal exposure.

Industry Player Insights: Among the many providers in this market, a few include Econet Data Centres, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, TelOne, and Dandemutande etc. Competitive dynamics focus on who can convert new onshore capacity into turnkey, auditable recovery corridors; Econet unveiled a 5-MW data-centre facility in Jun-2025 that gives corporates proximate vaulting and lowers replication latency for rehearsal cycles. TelOne’s Tier-3 data-centre and DR services provide domestic whitespace and managed backup options for public and private customers, while Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Cassava group) continues to bundle cyber-resilience advisory with runbook-capable hosting to shorten time-to-restore validation. These vendor moves push buyers toward suppliers offering local vaulting, scheduled restore validation and documented custody proofs that align with the new regulatory model.