[kictanet] Kenya IGF 2011 List Discussions Day 4 Cloud Computing

[Barrack Otieno]

@ Francis, thank you for the insights, we have a number of
data centers strewn all over the City, i have made site visits to some of
them, the problem is they are not talking which poses another challenge, how
do we embrace the data centers when we are not sure of their existence?

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Francis Hook <francis.hook at gmail.com> wrote:

> Paradoxically its the problems rooted in lack of a reliable grid that will
> drive cloud computing.    Take a simple example - Equity Bank, after
> realising they only use a small percentage of a Tier IV datacentre, have
> plans to host others to use up that excess capacity.   I imagine other banks
> and players in the enterprise space also have too much capacity - so to take
> the headache away i.e. each will not need to invest x billion on power back
> up systems and instead deploy some systems to a private cloud and leave the
> headache to a single party to manage in terms of storage planning,
> connectivity, R&D, testing, security and POWER back up.
>
> Very similar to what mobile operators are doing with their towers - selling
> them to tower operators who can then share the cost of operating the tower,
> running back up systems among two or more operators.
>
>
>
> On 5 July 2011 11:01, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
>
>> Let us look at things from the postive side.  Challenges are the greatest
>> opportunities.  If Kengen cannot produce enough power, let us look for
>> resources to do it instead of complaining. As far as I know, you can produce
>> captive power and bypass KPLC.  They will wake up if we take advantage of
>> their gaps.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Ndemo.
>>
>>
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