1. Posted on Friday 4 November 2011 - 09:55

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   GEORGE OKORE

   

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   George Okere, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya

   As information technology experts meet at AfricaCom from November 9-10, 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa, the latest technology solutions redefining Africa economic growth and wealth potential will dominate the event.

   

   Terms like Broadband, Cloud Computing, Rural Connectivity, and Connected Device will dominate the meeting coming at a time when the people in sub-Saharan Africa today connect to Internet using a mobile device than those using a fixed connection. This implies that future access to broadband Internet in the region will be driven by wireless broadband services.
   
   Of all the IT buzzword, cloud computing is the in thing. The term means a multitude of things to telecom operators, a way to buy services from the cloud rather than building them in-house.
   
   Speaking yesterday at AITEC East Africa ICT Summit in Nairobi John Jenkins, executive director at Business Connexion said cloud computing and services on demand represent the contemporary pinnacle of outsourced managed services.
   
   “The multi-sourcing trend is gaining momentum internationally, but in the Middle East and Africa more than 80% of outsourcing deals are still done with single service providers,” Jenkins says.
   
   Cloud or online service providers operate on a bigger scale with a broader customer base. This means they are able to offer better price models and economies of scale, but generally they don’t contract for specific service level agreements,” he explained.
   
   Jenkins told the summit that cloud computing and services are rapidly achieving widespread recognition for their ability to cost-effectively and efficiently deliver ICT to meet business requirements. However, many companies are concerned about whether cloud computing and services on demand can meet their stringent requirements for reliability, availability, performance and security.
   
   In cloud computing, an organization offers deep range of ICT solutions, with extensive operating data centre and infrastructural capabilities. This is significant, as data centres and the technologies they contain are the foundational building blocks for the ICT services which run on top of them.
   
   Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. Significant innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, as well as improved access to high-speed Internet and a weak economy, have accelerated interest in cloud computing.
   
   When a service provider uses public cloud resources to create their private cloud, the result is called a virtual private cloud. Private or public, the goal of cloud computing is to provide easy, scalable access to computing resources and IT services.
   
   Cloud computing is all the rage but is basically visual services. Like many new telecom innovations such as M2M, LTE, Ethernet, cloud computing is at an early stage, with a motley crew of providers large and small delivering a slew of cloud-based services, from full-blown applications to storage services to spam filtering.

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1. Posted on Wednesday 16 May 2012 21:31

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   donatelo

   

   
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   that is the future in this area. Cloud computing providers are everywhere

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