Africa’s IT industry is gearing up toward the clouds on the opening day of the annual summit conference.
Hosted by international business-to-business conferencing company, Kinetic Events, the 3rd annual Cloud and Virtualisation Summit Africa, is being held today and tomorrow at the Hilton Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg.
The summit was officially opened by Derrick Plank, Director of ClearSpace Consulting with an interesting take on the increasing impact of cloud computing on business technology. Derrick will also be moderating the event this year.
The summit kicked off this morning with the first keynote of the day presented by Trevor Cronje, CEO of RentWorks. Trevor provided invaluable insight into managing the new economics of the cloud. Summit guest presenter, Dr Andrew Hutchison from the International Presales Management group of T-Systems International, placed the industry spotlight on security and cloud services for the enterprise.
The first panel discussion of the day focused on the role of telecoms providers in cloud computing services. With cloud computing becoming a highly competitive market, the panel provided an in-depth analysis of cloud service providers delivering high-quality, business-grade services to differentiate themselves from low-cost commodity cloud computing providers.
The panel featured industry thought-leaders including Hrusostomos Vicatos, managing director of Victree; Gareth James, author and virtualisation guru; and Mariana Carroll, leader: Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence, Deloitte.
Day two of the conference will feature topical discussion points including next-generation security infrastructure and strategies, and the impact of cloud computing on enterprise architecture.
