MyBroadbands 2017 Cloud, Hosting, and Security Conference takes place at the Gallagher Convention Centre today.

The event has attracted over 1,700 IT executives and decision makers as delegates, and is the top conference of its kind in South Africa.

BCX, the leading player in South Africas cloud and hosting market, is the lead sponsor of the conference.

Telviva is the co-lead sponsor, with ODEK and Genesys partnering with MyBroadband as title sponsors of the event.

The conference has attracted an impressive speaker line-up, consisting of South African and international speakers.

Radio 702s Aki Anastasiou is MC for the event, with speakers from Amazon Web Services, BCX, SensePost, Dimension Data, Connection Telecom, SITA, Huawei, and many other leading organisations.

Here is a behind-the-scenes look at what delegates will be treated to at the conference.

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The title above is a play on the famous Bill Gates memo, The Internet Tidal Wave, written in May, 1995. Gates, on one of his reading weeks, realized that the Internet was the future of IT and Microsoft, through Gatess own miscalculation, was then barely part of that future. So he wrote the memo, turned the company around, built Internet Explorer, and changed the course of business history.

Thats how people tend to read the memo, as a snapshot of technical brilliance and ambition. But the inspiration for the Gates memo was another document, The Final Days of Autodesk, written in 1991 by Autodesk CEO John Walker. Walkers memo was not about how the future could be saved, but about how seemingly invincible market advantages could be quickly lost. If Autodesk, the Computer Aided Design pioneer, was ever going to die, this was how Walker figured it would happen. And Gates believed him. Now its about to happen again. Amazon Web Services -- the first and still largest public computing cloud -- is 11 years old, which is old enough for there not only to be some clear cloud computing winners (AWS, Microsoft Azure and a bunch of startups) but some obvious losers, too. This rising tide is not raising all ships. Thats why its time for the Cloud Computing Tidal Wave.

In the world of computing, almost every platform transition creates a new market giant. Old companies generally die to make way for new companies. Univac and Burroughs were parts of the mainframe era that didnt survive, replaced by minicomputers from companies like Digital, Data General and Prime. Those companies in turn gave way to personal computing pioneers like Apple, Compaq, and Microsoft. Only IBM seemed to remain a constant from one hardware generation to the next. But now were in the mobile era and IBM has almost no presence there, so the platform transition rule may still hold true.

The new things the cloud and that wave will have its new champions, too, as well as losers. Weve tended to focus our attention on providers of cloud hosting services, but the cloud is much more than data centers and servers. Its applications and services, too, and hardly any of those are coming from old guard companies.

First among the losers in cloud computing are the venerable mainframes that survive today mainly because Big Business still relies on a lot of old COBOL code -- code too big to be comfortable on a PC or even a minicomputer. But the cloud scales infinitely and COBOL is heading there and it can only hurt mainframe computer makers.

Suffering, too are the personal computer makers. As processing moves from the desktop to the cloud, desktops get punier, cheaper, and less profitable. Theres money to be made in the initial transformation from desktop to cloud, but what happens when all those desktops have been replaced? For the most part they wont need to be upgraded ever. The three-year PC upgrade cycle for businesses is already being disrupted. I am writing this column on a mid-2010 Apple MacBook Pro -- a seven year old computer I have no plans to replace because it works just fine, thanks to the boost it gets from cloud services.

In every platform transition there are companies that probably cant make the jump. One of those that stands out today especially because it has been in the news is Citrix Systems, the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) pioneer. VDI is, on first glance, a lot like the cloud. Citrix even refers to itself as a "cloud services company." But VDI isnt the cloud. VDI allows businesses to make one PC serve several users or one server help dozens or hundreds. But in cloud computing even the PC is virtual, which is very different.

Old market leaders like Citrix are making too much profit in legacy VDI contracts to really switch to the cloud. The company cant bring itself to make obsolete its own products and so thats left to some other company -- in the case of Citrix the likely vanquisher is a Silicon Valley startup called Frame, which has been moving companies like Adobe, Autodesk, HP, and Siemens to the cloud.

Citrix, which hired Goldman Sachs earlier this year to help it find a buyer, would probably love to sell itself to Microsoft, but how likely is that given Microsofts absolute commitment to the cloud? Not very.

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Almost 5 years after the business world was introduced to the cloud in the truest sense, most of the cloud-related knowledge floating around is still based on hearsay, and thus, inaccurate. It is imperative for businesses, especially the small and medium scale (SMEs) ones to understand all the aspects of the cloud before migrating their existing software or deploying new systems to cloud hosting.

In order to achieve the above, the following myths need to be busted immediately:

Well, even if it might seem to be the case on a superficial level, your small business should analyze the advantages of having a cloud infrastructure at the onset. It can be handy in the following cases:

Consider this: most of the on-premise systems are maintained by internal teams, which may or may not be suited to the job of maintaining the highest levels of security.Needless to say, cloud hosting is a better option for security of small businesses even if it may seem prone to data breaches because of its shared nature. If the paranoia over confidential data persists, the small businesses can opt for a hybrid infrastructure that stores non-important customer and employee data on the cloud, and confidential profile information and documents on-premises.

Legacy on-premise systems need regular maintenance and constant monitoring for identifying system attacks and unforeseen downtimes. Cloud hosting eliminates the need for having a full-fledged in-house operations team, and cuts down on the human resource costs. Also, cloud hosting charges are mostly subscription based with the service provider taking care of the security factors. As the cloud capacity need increases, the charges levied decrease. Hence, cloud hosting is the exact opposite of extravagant!

As mentioned above, the need for resources is minimized in a cloud infrastructure. Furthermore, the suite required for cloud management is available on nominal subscription charges from the cloud services provider. It allows data analytics dashboard, cloud scaling tools, virtual machine deployment, and application development IDEs. Hence, this is perhaps the most unfounded myth about cloud management services that is prevalent among small businesses.

As per the second point, if the small businesses are unnecessarily worried about confidentiality, they can opt for hybrid infrastructure. However, methods like two-factor authentication, in addition to mobile device management options like BYOD services, small businesses can effectively control who has access to the confidential data files. Also, geographical access limitations can be levied, if the data is such that it should not be accessed beyond office premises.

Chirag Thumar is a developer working at Technoligent. You can contact her in order to network engineer to avail the highly Cloud Management Services and other web service. He has several years of experience in the field of web development.

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