- Title
- Enhancing cloud connectivity among NRENs in the SADC region through a novel institution cloud infrastructure framework
- Creator
- Suresh, Nalina, Mbale, Jameson, Terzoli, Alfredo, Mufeti, Tulimevava K
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/430592
- Identifier
- vital:72702
- Identifier
- 10.1109/ETNCC.2015.7184830
- Description
- It is increasingly being recognized that faster socioeconomic develop-ment in Africa is dependent upon the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Infrastructure for the dissemination of data and educational services. The scalability and flexibility provided by Cloud services in terms of resource management, service provisioning and virtualization makes it an attractive system for use with educational and ICT services. The flexibility of pay-as-you-go models combined with the ability to scale computing, storage and/or networking resources makes Cloud computing an ideal candidate for use with education, re-search and scientific infrastructures. Notwithstanding its benefits, transi-tioning from a traditional IT infrastructure to a Cloud computing para-digm raises security concerns with respect to data storage, data trans-mission and user privacy. This paper presents on-going research for the development of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) infra-structure for the distribution of Information Communication technologies (ICT) services in the African context. The Inter-Cloud Infrastructure Framework (ICIF) proposed, is conceived as a Cloud computing framework suitable for use with National Research and Education Net-works (NRENs) in the SADC region. The ICIF system is used to create an Inter-Cloud infrastructure, and helps NRENs transition from tradi-tional IT infrastructure systems to the Cloud computing paradigm. It also provides new functional/operational components and Cloud services to support the interconnection and/or interoperability among SADC NRENs through the ICIF infrastructure.
- Format
- 6 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- International Conference on Emerging Trends in Networks and Computer Communications (ETNCC), Suresh, N., Mbale, J., Terzoli, A. and Mufeti, T.K., 2015, May. Enhancing cloud connectivity among NRENs in the SADC region through a novel institution cloud infrastructure framework. In 2015 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Networks and Computer Communications (ETNCC) (pp. 179-184). IEEE, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Networks and Computer Communications (ETNCC) volume 2015 number 1 179 184 2015 Conference
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