[kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive

[Edwin Onchari]

Unless of course CBK is hosting and backing up its data overseas as well J

 

Edwin

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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive

 

What's the regulator's (CBK in this case) position on hosting of financial
transaction data on overseas servers? 




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On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki at swiftkenya.com>
wrote:


Betty,


On 3/5/11 7:38 AM, Betty Mwangi wrote:
> Thanks Solomon
>
> Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the
> connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany
> temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the
> inconvenience
>

<rant>

>From a technical stand-point the statement above can be easily
interpreted as a technically flawed design IMHO. It almost states that
the M-PESA services are "entirely" dependent on connectivity to Germany.

I doubt if this is the case and you may want to clarify. If it is the
case - i have to say its quite a challenge on your hands to provide an
efficient service for a local service that depends on international
connectivity.

</rant>

Michuki.


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