<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Ahmed</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Well put. The other point to add is of course downtime issues. Your guess is as good as mine regarding whether cloud or local servers are best. Increasingly companies are choosing hybrid systems. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">This is one for the books..</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a></span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></p><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blog: <a href="http://www.alyhussein.com/" target="_blank">www.alyhussein.com</a></span><br></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 9 Dec 2015, at 8:07 AM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>I would believe this is a very broad issue to discuss. I would believe this may not be the solution to cyber security, I would think that localized servers have a better chance of being monitored compared to remote cloud computers. Unless this move means there is no need to invest in that facility and have it outsourced. But then a breach in security and 3rd party involvement could be a huge risk to take that could significantly be a big blow to privacy if anything goes wrong.<br><br></div><div>There are so many angles we can look at for this discussion. Its a very complex setup with so many moving parts.. many articles can be written about this and commentaries by different authors on various different topics in relation to specifically this.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>I wonder what listers would say on this.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "<a href="mailto:wamarobert@outlook.com" target="_blank">wamarobert@outlook.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:wamarobert@outlook.com" target="_blank">wamarobert@outlook.com</a>><br>Date: Dec 6, 2015 1:09 AM<br>Subject: [i-network] Estonian Government to go cloud 100%<br>To: "I-Network Uganda" <<a href="mailto:i-network@dgroups.org" target="_blank">i-network@dgroups.org</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution">
<div><div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:16pt" color="#000000" face="Garamond,sans-serif" size="4">Hi i-Netters, </font><div><font face="Garamond, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:21px">This is interesting even to our public services colleagues....</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px">Estonia is planning to upload all of its government data to the cloud so that the country can be run from abroad if necessary.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2015/dec/estonian-government-cloud-backup.cfm" target="_blank">http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2015/dec/estonian-government-cloud-backup.cfm</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Robert</div> </div>
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