Tech experts believe local enterprises should opt for cloud technology to match the demands of the evolving business environment.

Cloud technology makes everything from apps to documents available on the Internet.

It is where most of our data, information and infrastructure are run by third parties in a way to offer us a service. A day to day example of cloud is; Google Drive which stores our data such as documents and photos.

Cloud provides on-demand access, via the Internet, to applications, servers, and data storage, networking capabilities, hosted to a remote data centre and managed by service providers.

Cloud computing technologies, according to Farouk Semambya, an information technology architect at MTN, allows enterprises to introduce new ways of working, and cost saving while eliminating the inefficiencies created by traditional automation.

All businesses need to be connected to the Internet because it is now a necessity. With the Internet, you access everything. Get out of the mindset of having physical meetings by using the available tools, Semambya says.

He made the remarks last Tuesday during a roundtable discussion held by Liquid Intelligent Technologies and The Innovation Village under the theme, What Next: Technologys response through cloud and cybersecurity?

Enterprises that embrace cloud computing services have the capability of lowering the cost of doing business as regards to IT costs especially at a time when startups are rising out of the distress caused by the pandemic.

Grace Kamulegeya, a software solutions consultant at Makerere University, says start ups need to associate with cloud to manage cash flow.

The biggest challenges startups face is capital and for them to grow, they need to make sure the cash flow is there and can be managed, she says.

One of the solutions is to have some of their innovations being hosted around the cloud environment, she notes.

Almost two-thirds, or 65 percent of spending on application and infrastructure software will be directed toward cloud technologies by 2025, which is an increase from 58 percent in 2022, according to a report by Gartner Inc.

This is a clear indication that businesses are quickly moving to cloud computing and failure to adopt increases the business risk of becoming obsolete.

Dennis Keko Kahindi, chief executive at Liquid Intelligent Technologies, explains that the discussion explored major changes within the cloud economy and demystified factors driving todays private cloud valuations, the new cloud frameworks, and emerging strategies to help entrepreneurs measure growth and drive go-to-market momentum.

Although Africa accounts for only 1 per cent of the global public cloud market, the market continues to grow exponentially and has doubled in the past three years.

The technology sector in Uganda continues to rapidly grow, with ongoing expansion and improvement of data infrastructure a crucial aspect in pushing the country towards economic growth.

As Uganda and the rest of Africa look towards economic recovery and growth, Kahindi says cloud is the answer to cutting costs and increasing efficiencies as businesses move away from the requirement of hardware and installation.

This is a must in the new era where office-bound working is becoming less of a priority and, in some instances, obsolete altogether, he says.

To enhance our value proposition on technology development, we have partnered with entities like Microsoft through the Go-Cloud initiative to raise awareness, adoption and usage of Azure Cloud across Africa. This programme provides connectivity and cloud-based services tailored to start-ups at different gestation stages, enabling them to grow and scale their businesses, Kahindi added.

Even as enterprises integrate these technologies within their operations, challenges including a poor mindset towards adoption as well as the technical deficit to deploy applications on the cloud, stand in the way.

But an even more concerning issue at the back of all peoples minds is the security of data shared over the cloud.

The question to ask is how prepared the economy is to address challenges of cybersecurity arising from the growing number of hackers, increasing malware attacks and thriving black market for stolen data.

Cyber space has become very competitive but a risky place for organisations who are losing lots of data, information and money to cybercrime.

Duncan-Allan Byamukama, IT Systems & Networks Supervisor at The Innovation Village, says cyber security is very important given that most company work is done via the Internet and awareness of the risks involved is a good place to start.

Cloud allows entrepreneurs to expand their business portfolio and information infrastructure. So, as we aggressively take on digital technologies, let us develop the local tech talent to ensure that they provide customised software skills to manage the cyber-attacks, he shares. He notes that digital infrastructure will foster growth of digital technology.

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Once upon a time, the main product of public clouds was infrastructure. That infrastructure was constructed using hardware that the clouds acquired mostly from third-party providers, and the infrastructure hosted whichever third-party software platforms customers chose to deploy on it.

Ah, how times have changed. Today, major cloud providers seem to be on a vertical integration bent. Not only are providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform investing heavily in software products that customers can run on top of their cloud infrastructure, they are now even sourcing their own hardware which means that, at some point in the not-so-distant future, entire cloud computing environments may consist primarily of hardware and software components sourced from a single vendor.

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Here's how vertical integration is playing out in the cloud industry, and what this cloud computing trend means for the future of public cloud.

To understand just how much vertical integration is changing cloud computing, you must first understand how the public cloud business model traditionally worked.

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Originally, public clouds specialized mostly just in infrastructure as a service (IaaS). They sold virtual machine instances, storage, databases, and the like. To the extent that public clouds provided software, it mostly consisted of basic monitoring and administration tooling, like AWS CloudWatch and Azure Monitor, that worked only within each public cloud's own environments.

The only area where you could accuse public clouds of vertical integration 10 years ago was the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) front. Early on, the major cloud providers rolled out PaaS solutions (such as AWS Elastic Beanstalk, which debuted in 2011) that competed with third-party offerings like Heroku. By offering their own PaaSes, public clouds were able to couple their IaaS offerings with software tools.

But even here, they were targeting a narrow market. To the extent that PaaS vertically oriented public clouds, it did so for limited use cases and limited sets of users.

That started to change around the mid-2010s, when public cloud providers began investing more extensively in software platforms that could run on top of their infrastructures.

Broadly speaking, most of these solutions fell into three main categories:

At the same time, the big public clouds doubled down on their investment in PaaS. Alongside basic tools such as Elastic Beanstalk, they built sophisticated managed containers-as-a-service and Kubernetes offerings that when integrated with managed DevOps tools, like Azure Pipelines, and operating systems, like AWS Bottlerocket provide developers with everything they need to build, deploy, and orchestrate applications without ever leaving a given cloud provider's ecosystem.

Not content to be just software vendors, the public clouds are now turning themselves into hardware vendors, too, by developing their own computing chips.

AWS, which already offers VM instances powered by chips sourced from the company, is currently the furthest along in this journey. But there are clear signs that Microsoft and Google are close behind.

Admittedly, there will probably always be room for third-party hardware inside the Big Three clouds' data centers. So far, the clouds are only building their own chips, not storage devices, NICs, and so on. It's also far too early to say whether cloud vendors intend to transition completely to chips that they source in-house, or to use those processors only for certain services or instance types.

Still, the move toward internal hardware sourcing is a very big deal. It means that the day will come (in fact, it's already here, at least for certain AWS use cases) when virtually the entire stack required to host a workload from the CPU, to the VM instance, to the OS, to the software application will originate from a single provider. Using the public cloud may feel a lot more like using an Apple product where almost everything is sourced from one vendor than running, say, a PC where the hardware comes from Dell, the OS from Microsoft, and the software from a variety of other vendors.

Why are cloud providers investing in vertical integration, and how will it shape the future of the cloud?

It's hard to do more than speculate at this point, but I suspect that one outcome of this cloud computing trend will be stronger differentiations between public clouds. When all the clouds were basically just IaaS providers, there wasn't a lot of difference between them, apart from details like pricing and how VM instances were configured. But when public clouds become software vendors, and when they design their own chips, they have a greater ability to build unique products and services.

Vertical integration is also likely to have major consequences for "alternative" cloud providers, meaning smaller clouds that attempt to compete with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The ability to develop and source hardware and software is probably beyond the capability of most alternative clouds, which means they will have to chase customers in other ways perhaps by undercutting the larger cloud providers' pricing for core IaaS services.

The vertical integration trend in the cloud computing market hasn't received a lot of attention, but it should. It's one of the most powerful forces in cloud computing today, and it promises to have profound implications for the way cloud providers operate and the way customers use their platforms.

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3. Consider a Move to a Multicloud Environment

Multicloud also offers a way to better manage cloud spending. The concept behindmulticloudis simple: Instead of using large-scale public or private clouds that provide sweeping and generalized services some that your school needs and some that arent especially useful your IT team leverages cloud providers that excel in specific areas. This allows a more focused use of cloud computing resources with better ROI, with the caveat thatmore in-depth monitoringis required to reduce the risk of resource duplication across multiple cloud providers.

Depending on the complexity of your network and the number of clouds required to meet service goals, it may be worth partnering with areputable third-party providerto help streamline cloud management at scale.

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The sheer amount of data now generated by students, staff and third-party applications creates a challenge for optimized cloud management. Put simply, its easy for staff to get so caught up in manual monitoring and management tasks that they miss opportunities to maximize cloud savings. For example, if current access frameworks require IT teams to manually configure and approve all cloud instance requests, they lose time that could be better spent improving cloud operations at scale.

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Your end users staff, students and administrators are the ones actively engaging with cloud deployments day in and day out. Its worth talking to them about whats working, what isnt and what needs to change when it comes to the cloud.

While IT teams may see green across the board servers are up, connections are stable and throughput is reliable this doesnt always translate into a solid user experience. If staff and students are experiencing significant delays when they attempt to access critical services or finding current cloud portals cumbersome or confusing, they simply wont use them. A university can end up paying for significantly underutilized resources.

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Not all workloads belong in the cloud. Some are better suited to secure onsite servers, while others may require specialized instances to ensure the highest levels of security and access. With cloud now a priority for schools to navigate the next normal of education, however, its critical for IT teams to prioritize the purposeful adoption of new services.

In practice, this means asking questions. What problem does the service solve? What benefits can it offer? How will teams measure impact and ROI? If clear answers arent forthcoming, it may be worth taking a pause or a pass on specific cloud service adoption.

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Cloud adoption is accelerating in higher education as schools look to support hybrid learning environments without taking on substantial capital expenses, but cloud comes with its own cost challenges around resource deployment, server use and end-user adoption. Start with these tips for cloud cost optimization to minimize unnecessary spending without sacrificing performance.

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Salt Lake City INTELITECHS, a Utah-based managed IT services provider, is pleased to announce its acquisition of Total Cloud IT. The acquisition opens the door to expansion by INTELITECHS into serving a broader group of small to mid-sized businesses across the country with both managed IT and cloud computing services.

We are pleased to be able to augment our proven model of delivering managed IT services to a larger group of clients across the country, says founder Jake Hiller. Its a win/win our regional clients now have access to expanded cloud services, and at the same time, previous cloud services-only clients can now benefit from the more comprehensive services INTELITECHS offers in the areas of managed IT and data security, he added.

With todays home-based workforce, there is a higher level of concern with data access and end-user security. So many companies now have more employees working from home than in the office using company and non-company devices to access sensitive data, says Eric Sessions, co-founder. We see a significant increase in need for our services like Office 365 security, directory synchronization, multi-factor authentication, SPAM filtering and DMARC/DKIM/SPF configuration and monitoring, he adds.

INTELITECHS provides managed IT services and IT department staff augmentation by serving as its customers outsourced IT department. Its goal is to become clients geek-speak-translators and to use IT to drive business growth and profitability. The company serves clients across the country with managed IT services, managed backups, 24/7/365 monitoring, and a wide variety of other sophisticated security services. The company also assists clients with hardware sales, cloud-based computing, server migration, and Office 365 support. What sets INTELITECHS apart from other technology companies is its focus on partnership with clients versus just being an IT vendor. With its home office in Salt Lake City, UT, the company now serves small to medium-sized businesses across the country.

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