I met these guys and they are keen to come to East Africa.They have mobile-container datacentres

http://sitronics.com/products/it/mobile-center/



On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
I disagree. There is a lot of data many business generate that is an
opportunity for a savvy backup company to monetize. Besides emails
databases, application databases, document management system data,
etc. I'm sure most of us backup to external hard disks (if at all) and
carry the same to some other location by car. I've even seen some
institutions backing up data to a different partition on the same hard
disk!

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That should not be an issue. You will not put the container on a road
>> reserve. But the issue here is the general lack of data centers in sub
>> saharan Africa.
>
> Much as I agree with you, a more pertinent question is whether we have data
> to justify this... Most business are not plugged in, along with individuals,
> the purpose of such a datacenter will be mainly to host email...
>
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