President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa must reduce its reliance on AWS, Google, and Microsoft

[magneto]

lol, here come sita new version all over again, rofl... social Democracy aka communism will always fail..

 

[SauRoNZA]

The irony of AWS starting in SA.

Just imagine if the government supported the space better we may have been the global powerhouse for cloud computing.

 

[RiaX]

ahhh it can be done ..... if your country is smart and your country is china. Anything is possible bafana bafana qualified

 

[oros]

Seriously..... I don't even know what to say on that......

 

[RedViking]

Where irregular expenditure is just a technicality.

 

[garyc]

It doesn't look like this will be a new build. It will be a repositioning of the existing Sebowa Cloud run by the CSIR's Centre for High Performance Computing and their National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System. This is an academic research cloud that has been running for several years from data centres in Pretoria and Cape Town. The system runs on open-source software, Openstack for orchestration and Ceph for the distributed storage system.

Some stuff here: https://www.chpc.ac.za/

 

[Carl_Johnson]

This is what the potential government cloud service will look like. You will notice that our whole cabinet is happy with their success.

 

[rustypup]

It will be a repositioning of the existing Sebowa Cloud run by the CSIR's Centre for High Performance Computing and their National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System.

The same CSIR that regularly has threat actors mining coin on their kit? That CSIR?

World class.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

The same CSIR that regularly has threat actors mining coin on their kit? That CSIR?

World class.

World class indeed... bunch of palookas that lot.

 

[Sworaxe]

Guess that means they plan to buddy up even more with China, Huawei cloud services.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Guess that means they plan to buddy up even more with China, Huawei cloud services.

 

[oros]

The wet dreams keeps on coming.........

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

China is happy to put south africa behind their firewall and provide a world class cloud service,
just dont search Tianamen square or Falung gong, unless you want to feel like what its like to be black bagged.

 

[My_King]

Ha ha ha ha voken cadre kak

 

[Supervan II]

Yes! SITA will do it!

mylesillidge said:
South Africa building its own cloud infrastructure, says Ramaphosa

President Cyril Ramaphosa has confirmed that South Africa is investing in its own cloud infrastructure to reduce its reliance on global giants in the space.

In his weekly newsletter, Ramaphosa welcomed the billions invested by players such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, but emphasised that South Africa must develop its own capabilities.

This is the goal - nothing else.

 

[prod]

In his weekly newsletter, Ramaphosa welcomed the billions invested by players such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, but emphasised that South Africa must develop its own capabilities.

Wasn't EC2 basically developed by people in CT, including South Africans?

muppet

 

[acidrain]

 

[MrGray]

This is the kind of flippant statement that can only be made by someone utterly ignorant of the scale and technological sophistication of the large established cloud service providers. It is so out of touch with reality that it's scary.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

This is the kind of flippant statement that can only be made by someone utterly ignorant of the scale and technological sophistication of the large established cloud service providers. It is so out of touch with reality that it's scary.

whats scary is somebody like this is in charge of a country,
no wonder the ANC decides to randomly rename things constantly/blame apartheid constantly , its a lot easier to rename/blame than it is to actually fix things.

 

[Nirv]

Cyril you spoke of a smart city before your first election, how's that going? Maybe step back on some of the pie in the sky stuff and get back to basics.