Cloud Computing, is bandwidth in SA cheap enough?

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Firstly - Congrats to me for breaking he Hosting and Cloud Computing subforum's virginity!

My question in the topic is mostly geared towards mobile. do you think things like iCloud, and Google's/Amazon's cloud services can do well in SA?

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Depends on the intention of the server.

Our company has switched to the cloud for a lot of our applications with great success. Ironic the high cost of bandwidth at hosting facilities was a major factor.
 
In my opinion, bandwidth in South Africa is still too expensive to fully switch over to cloud services that are hosted internationally. However local hosters have been growing their cloud offerings significantly and are offering very competitive products to those seen from international providers.
 
I would say yes, but only if you do it properly and not try to run your default server client installs Example: we not ready to run say Pastel and friend on a server at some ISP and keep the default clients. But if you redesign the process and in example above use a HTML5 based accounting package and Google or Microsoft web documents we more than ready.

The savings you get from removing most of the server room will even out the data costs easy. It also saves money on roll-outs and expansion of your business.
 
We actually have an ISV that has extended their business model offering their accounting/payroll software through Citrix XenApp from our cloud and have already seen great success in interest from the market. SMBs are loving the idea of having enterprise software, without the need of enterprise hardware and only paying monthly licensing fees as they use it. The savings on infrastructure generally outweigh the increased costs of bandwidth (which are decreasing).
 
Not a chance its affordable in SA with our bandwidth prices. With Apple's new iCloud option, I don't see it or other things using cloud computing as being financially do-able here as users...unless you are in the upper income bracket. It will rape your bandwidth...
 
CipherIan said:
In my opinion, bandwidth in South Africa is still too expensive to fully switch over to cloud services that are hosted internationally. However local hosters have been growing their cloud offerings significantly and are offering very competitive products to those seen from international providers.
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Not true, my amazon micro server is cheaper than a local cloud server to perform the same functions and use the same bandwidth.
 
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