Hello Listners, Under the cloud business concept - Infrastructure as a Service - IaaS, there are private clouds – which Francis alluded to in an earlier posting. That is a dedicated, or leased, portion of a provider’s hosted facilities. Also, the public cloud which are designed as a multi-tenant environment. More regulatory compliance is required on public clouds since these clouds do not observe geographical boundaries. Therefore, industries which are concerned with the physical location of sensitive data may be reluctant to go public, they would not pass an audit. In terms of cost, public are less expensive due to its multi tenancy concept. Organizations do not buy, install, operate or maintain servers or other equipment. However, private are more expensive since the client has to transfer all the computing power and underlying software to the providers site. Considering these scenarios, it is imperative to define a niche and build policy frameworks that would spur the growth of either one or both. Regards, Sam ________________________________ From: Barrack Otieno <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Skunkworks forum <[email protected]>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, July 5, 2011 2:23:23 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya IGF 2011 List Discussions Day 4 Cloud Computing Note: Forwarded message is attached. Barrack Otieno ([email protected]) is not on your Guest List | Approve sender | Approve domain