I’ve now been in East Africa for 5 years (came down here on a 1 week business trip from Silicon Valley North – Ottawa, Canada – and haven’t left yet) and soundbites of this cloud computing thingy is what I’ve been hearing about, over & over.
Is it not safe to say Google’s massive data stack is also cloud computing? They seem to scale pretty damn well to me.

Hence when Eddie asks — “Google oh Google, where art though Google? Om, what is Google’s core competency these days anyway?” — my reply is that all that massive scaling they’ve been doing for a good decade now is pretty damn IMPRESSIVE, whateva u wanna call it. Oh, so peeps are now calling it “cloud computing??” Well, Google’s been there, done that…and quietly. I don’t know anyone else on the Net who can SCALE as well as they DO.

So my question simply is this: Does this OpenStack thingy allow peeps like me to effortlessly bring Google-style scaling to the masses here in the East Africa Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda)?

All these terms of cloud, they do not describe the capabilities of the technology. If it is not distributed by plugging in a new system and it scale by computing power, storage and scale across locations with performance and redundancy, then it is usually just a VM in a datacenter, which in my opinion is not the cloud!

Eddie – Googles competency was search, until they realized where the money was and they are now a marketing company in disguise! That is their true business!