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

[Lucy Kimani]

Mwendwa,

Today's data centers can greatly reduce their footprint by using various technologies like VMWare to reduce no of servers etc 
Traveling will more later.
Lucy 

AWT

On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:22 AM, lordmwesh <lordmwesh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. Is Kenya government cloud computing hosted in Kenya or it is hosted in the West?
> 2. How can we compete with giant server farms in US and Europe if our  power costs is very high? A single server farm in the US of 450,00 servers can consume in the region of 20megawatts of power. With Kengen  having a capacity of 700MW, can we cope with such huge demand? Can we even afford the cost of the power bearing in mind the huge cost!
> 3. Germany is moving out of nuclear energy by 2022, then they will graduate to other affordable renewable energy. Is it time for Kenya to invested in nuclear energy to reach mid level economic status? That way, we will reduce the cost of energy, while growing the economy.
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