There is a silver lining to cloud computing despite challenges

Grazed from DailyNation. Author: Esmond Shahonya.

In April 2011, a major failure in Amazon Cloud services brought down thousands of company websites that had rented storage space in the Internet firm. That exposed the risks of cloud computing to enterprises, especially for those that fail to invest in back-up systems.

Locally, Safaricom has faced some challenges of hosting M-Pesa servers in an off-shore cloud computing matrix. The trouble has been that whenever there is a problem on the host in Germany, the service is adversely hit. Last year, it was characterised with outages that reflected on the bleak reality of cloud computing…

Cloud computing as a virtualisation technology has real benefits and troubles as well. The silver lining of the clouds notwithstanding, there are issues that leave the clouds too stormy for some businesses. Cloud computing troubles are mainly manifested in the outages, insecurity and issues of accessibility. Given the enabling nature of cloud technology, most businesses are slowly coming to terms with it…

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