Robert,<div><br></div><div>I hardly think SwiftGlobal are the benchmark for this kinds of services. I would say maybe SwiftGlobal are not ready to provide cloud services. I'm certain (being the optimistic sort) that other operators have better organized infrastructure.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Lucy Kimani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lkimani@yahoo.com">lkimani@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div>I guess the question to be asked is what kind of redundancy the Kenyan "cloud" is being based on, the model out here is four IDCs ( for example 2 east coast/ 2 west cost) connected via MPLS and each IDC has its own redundancy. With that kind of redundancy for a client to fail they will need to have 8 "points of failure" which is not very likely. Now for a Swift Global to have only one failover site in the city center in my humble opinion totally lacks imagination, and you are right does not comply with industry standards.</div>
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<div>Just my pesa nane.</div>
<div> <br>LK<br>--- On <b>Tue, 6/28/11, robert yawe <i><<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="border-left:rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid;padding-left:5px;margin-left:5px"><br>From: robert yawe <<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>Subject: [kictanet] Storm Clouds are brewing<br>
To: <a href="mailto:lkimani@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lkimani@yahoo.com</a><br>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>
Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 7:05 AM<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br>
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<div style="font-family:times, serif;color:black;font-size:12pt">Hi,</div>
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<div style="font-family:times, serif;color:black;font-size:12pt">The message below was sent out by SwiftGlobal about a failure at their data centre which gives a clear sign that we are not ready for public clouds as the current ones seem to have turned into storm clouds and are beating down hard.</div>
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<p style="font-family:times, serif;color:black;font-size:12pt">Dear Customer,</p></div>
<p style="line-height:13.9pt;margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:times, serif;color:black;font-size:12pt"><span>This is to notify you that there will has been a power problem since <span style="color:black">Monday <i>27/6/2011 late afternoon</i></span> at ILH (Town) which is our redundant site. This involved a total shutdown on power last evening as they replaced a <span style="color:black">contactor which got burnt during the day's power fluctuations. The generator was also not working to allow these electrical works to be completed. </span></span></p>
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</p><p style="font-family:times, serif;color:black;font-size:12pt"></p><div><div></div><div class="h5">During this exercise there was service interruption to all clients and services terminated at this Location i.e (co-located server, webserver). This also causing slow internet speeds due to an overload on servers at the main site. We continue to experience this interruption as they are still working on the power issue.
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</p><p style="font-family:times, serif;color:black;font-size:12pt"></p><div><div></div><div class="h5">We regret the inconvenience this has caused you. Kindly bear with us as this crucial exercise is carried out we will keep you updated.
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</p><p style="font-family:times, serif;color:black;font-size:12pt"></p><div><div></div><div class="h5">For any further queries, please feel free to contact our support desk on 6921000 or write to <a title="mailto:support@swiftglobal.co.ke" href="http://us.mc1206.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=support@swiftglobal.co.ke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">support@swiftglobal.co.ke</a>
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</p><p style="font-family:times, serif;color:black;font-size:12pt"></p><div><div></div><div class="h5">The message clearly indicates that swift have no long run power backup and are also dependent on a shared backup generator. A data centre must been able to operate for at least 6 hours with no external power.
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</p><p></p><div><div></div><div class="h5"><font size="3" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">What is also more interesting is that the statement and </font><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">sequence</font><font size="3" face="'times new roman', 'new
york', times, serif"> of events listed by SwiftGlobal are very similar to those of KRA when there systems went down a few weeks ago. Could this mean that apart from me there is no one else in the country with the local expertise to design a industry standard data centre? </font>
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</p><p></p><div><div></div><div class="h5"><font size="3" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Regards</font><font size="3" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"> </font><font size="3" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Robert Yawe</font><br>
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