Ben Uzor Jr
Leading provider of storage hardware solutions that promotes data
recovery and improve cloud computing, EMC, has advised Small and Medium scale
Enterprises (SME) in Nigeria to step up the adoption of cloud computing
technology. This, according to the technology company would enable them meet
growing business challenges. According to EMC, through cloud computing, SMEs
can convert their Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) to Operating Expenditure (OPEX)
by paying for only capacity used. The company believes that this new paradigm
in Information Technology (IT) utilization will change how the world consume
technology and Nigeria could become a global leader in this technology, but
only if there is a collectively take of the initiative and strategically
identifying where future investment opportunities lies.
Globally, cloud computing is in its infancy, which is being
fuelled by both Foreign Direct Investment and a healthy indigenous community,
this according to the Regional Director for Emerging Africa at EMC, Fady Richmany
will be fuelled by faster adoption among others. Richmany at a press briefing
in Lagos noted that by utilising the cloud, SMEs can go straight to the cloud
without any of the cost involved in building the infrastructure, stressing
there are different stages of adoption. According to him, the major advantage
that cloud technology has was its ability to be flexible enough to support
inter-operability, stressing that traditionally, moving data around
organisations was difficult, but some of the new cloud infrastructure that has
been developed allows businesses – big and small to move vast volumes of data
over huge distances, which allows innovative companies to be much more agile in
addressing the markets.
In his own view, Rasheed Ola Jimoh, regional manager for West
Africa, EMC said though there are still challenges, especially in the area of
infrastructure upgrade, but that must be capacity build up for the technology
to earn full adoption in this part of the world. Jimoh opined that if cloud computing
has the ability to change how technology is consumed, then it also has the
ability to change how IT services are delivered. In a related development, the
EMC’s Regional Manager for West Africa said the company has commenced a youth
IT Literacy Project, which will be an important catalyst for the development of
young Nigerians as ICT skills are essential to their professional advancement
and success. “Young Nigerians starting from secondary school are leveraging
social media to connect, communicate, develop and innovate. At EMC, we are
pleased to initiate the first of several such projects in Nigeria and we look
forward to extending this initiative further in the near future.”
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