… As Stakeholders Discuss Cloud Hosting Services/Data Centers
By Kingsley I. Ilechukwu, Correspondent Lagos
Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria’s first and only neutral IXP, Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN), Muhammed Rudman, will chair NITRA Technology Forum 2021, which is slated to hold on Thursday, May 27, 2021 at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos.
The event will gather industry stakeholders in the Cloud hosting services and Data Center to discuss issues around the growth of data hosting, preservation and utilisation in the country.
The NITRA Technology Forum with the theme: Achieving 30 per cent Growth In Local Cloud Hosting By 2024, will also discuss challenges and solutions to factors mitigating against effective domiciliation of locally-generated data.
According to the organisers, the choice of Mr. Rudman to chair this Edition was borne out of his passion for and contribution to the growth of local content in the industry and everything data.
Rudman is also the current President of NiRA, the .ng registry, as well as the DNS Administrator contact for Nigeria. He is a member of ccNSO, and has worked in a technical capacity with many Nigerian Internet Service Providers.
According to the Chairman of NITRA, Chike Onwuegbuchi, over the years, Nigeria had been grappling with the need to secure the country’s data and further boost local content in all sectors of the economy, and key stakeholders were worried and concerned about how the sector was faring in this area, and how it could achieve local hosting of our sensitive data, stressing growth should be inside-out.
The COVID-19 pandemic has also presented an eye-opener to many companies on the need to fortify their data and cloud architecture.
“Specifically, the Forum will offer Cloud service companies, data infrastructure companies and other stakeholders, opportunities to reach out to their target market with solutions that addresses their challenges and needs.
Through the Forum, stakeholders will be able to discuss current challenges affecting Cloud businesses, policies that should facilitate growth and solutions to the challenges identified,” Onwuegbuchi said.
The world increasingly exploits information technology for innovative services and competitive advantage, the data centre is playing a rapidly expanding role in job creation and growth of cloud hosting services in the country as well as the overall economic recovery.
As an aspiring digital economy, Nigeria has also witnessed significant investments in data centres being established in the country. And it has often been argued that the availability of world class Data centres in Nigeria is critical infrastructure required for the implementation of the country’s Broadband initiatives, hence the convening of the forum by NITRA, the umbrella association for ICT journalists in Nigeria and watchdog to the growth and development of the industry.
