Kitskoo Cloud Services, a leading Cloud Services ICT company in Nigeria in partnership with VCE and Microsoft is providing the opportunity for business leaders across the country to adopt the use of Private Cloud for the growth of their organizations.
To achieve this objective, the company is organising a one-day business session for Information Technology and other executives of companies and it’s scheduled to hold on the 28th of August, 2014 at Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel in Victoria Island.
Outlining the company’s plans for the session, Mr Tunde Fafunwa, Kitskoo CEO, stated that with the theme; “Why your business must embrace the cloud in 2014,” the company is not only encouraging businesses and their leaders in Nigeria to embrace private Cloud, it’s equally challenging their decision makers and most importantly the business owners to leverage the numerous benefits of “Cloud Technologies.”
Mr Fafunwa noted that one of the major challenges confronting business executives is the quest to effectively grow the business using the best possible approach at the lowest cost.
While the Public Cloud approach may be an appealing option, the need for control over an organization’s mission critical data makes the Private Cloud more desirable to many.
He said; “A private cloud, which is also known as internal cloud or corporate cloud, resides within the organization’s environment or firewall and can only be accessed by authorized employees of the organization or its business partner(s). With cost reduction as one of the unique benefits of a Private Cloud, an organization can easily standardize its computer resources thereby allowing its IT personnel to focus more on servicing its customers instead of wasting time on managing compute and network resources.”
He also added that “the most widely adopted private cloud model today is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This is simply the natural development of the virtualization process an organization is currently going through. The other one is Software as a Service (SaaS) model. It’s simply means an organizational transitions from purchasing software licenses to a pay-as-you-go model. With this approach, Nigerian businesses will not only tap into I.T global best practice, but also re-invigorate the overall service delivery of their organization.”
Adding a different perspective, Mr Monu Ogbe, executive director of Kitskoo noted that while the Public Cloud as it is today offers more in terms of service delivery for business owners, the adoption of a Private Cloud by an organization helps it address the twin issue of security and availability.
Mr Ogbe also said; “it’s a known fact that many business organizations for reasons of their values, culture, security or even regulatory demands cannot move directly to the Public Clouds. Banks for instance cannot join a public cloud because of their security requirements. Such businesses would need to adopt Private Cloud strategies that they can rely upon for performance and availability. This is the focus of Kitskoo’s approach which is not limited only to Banks.”