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

[Sam Aguyo]

Hello Listners,

Under the cloud business concept - Infrastructure as a Service - IaaS, there are 
private clouds – which Francis alluded to in an earlier posting.  That is a 
dedicated, or leased, portion of a provider’s hosted facilities. Also, the 
public cloud which are designed as a multi-tenant environment. More regulatory 
compliance is required on public clouds since these clouds do not observe 
geographical boundaries. Therefore, industries which are concerned with the 
physical location of sensitive data may be reluctant to go public, they would 
not pass an audit.

In terms of cost, public are less expensive due to its multi tenancy concept. 
Organizations do not buy, install, operate or maintain servers or other 
equipment. However, private are more expensive since the client has to transfer 
all the computing power and underlying software to the providers site.

Considering these scenarios, it is imperative to define a niche and build policy 
frameworks that would spur the growth of either one or both.

Regards,

Sam



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