On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Michuki Mwangi
<michuki@swiftkenya.com> wrote:
@Aki,
Am going to play the devils advocate here :).
On 7/5/11 7:51 AM, aki wrote:
>
> Why would the govt promote cloud computing as a national importance when
> they gave out the digitization project to Google? Our data now sits on
> Google servers!
>
Why not?.
> I believe that those interested in cloud services should shun these
> until the govt leads on such,
Please tell me is there any local company in Kenya that can provide
services that can compete or match Google's cloud services?.
> I also think that before we proceed on any further discussions, we need
> to know why the Govt choose Google as the cloud service.
>
Maybe we should compare it to this. Why is the Govt going for VW Passats
yet we have the Nyayo Pioneer car idling somewhere or am i mistaken?.
But on a more serious note - has anyone build an infrastructure here and
am not talking about a Data Center with all the bells and whistles. Am
talking about a service framework that is scalable and robust enough to
make the GoK think twice about giving their services to that provider?.
Here am not talking about the scale of Google am talking small enough to
handle GoK but scalable to handle all of E.A Govts and more without
breaking.
We are lacking in many extends from both technical expertise (and am
sure many folks will differ with me on this one) and more driven by the
$ than by the technology to care to know how to build it all together.
We have been quick to say that why reinvent the wheel in so many of the
forums here (including myself). However, the downside of not reinventing
the wheel is we take the wheel and use it without understanding why it
was built that way - we just know that we need it and we use it (see
Joomla discussion).
In conclusion, we have quickly to making revenues from a technology we
barely understand. As a result, those who understand it better will
always outcompete the rest of us.
If you think about it - long before there was cloud folks had something
called rocketmail and hotmail. Then came yahoo and even then their
business model was a mystery to many in actual sense online advertising
was still a distant concept in 1997 - 2000. But see what they lead to
today. So basically they made the wheel and improved on the wheel and
now its no longer a wheel but a mirage of a wheel.
My 2 cents.
Michuki.
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