INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
Public cloud presents
unique challenges,
says Securicom
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S
outh African businesses are
increasingly shifting applications,
services and infrastructure to the
cloud where they are more accessible
and available. However, Securicom says
companies are discovering that the public
cloud presents some unique challenges.
“South African businesses switching to the
public cloud need to consider that their data
could be located anywhere on the globe,”
said Douw Gerber, from Securicom.
“AWS typically lets you select a data centre
location, but these are all located in Europe,
Asia or USA at present. This introduces
latency issues in applications that may be
latency-sensitive for customers in sub-Sahara
Africa in general.
“What this means is that data transmission
might be affected by spikes in use across
the Internet. If application performance is a
deal breaker for you, then the private cloud
certainly trumps the public cloud.”
Gerber says the public cloud is based on
shared physical hardware which is owned
Securicom says
companies are
discovering that
the public cloud
presents some unique
challenges
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and operated by a third-party provider and
the infrastructure is shared across numerous
customers. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft
Azure and Google Cloud are examples of
public clouds. Data centres are situated all
over the world, with none in South Africa.
“On the other hand, a private cloud is
infrastructu