Research Article
Cloud Computing and Virtualization in Developing Countries
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-67837-5_19, author={Yness Boukhris}, title={Cloud Computing and Virtualization in Developing Countries}, proceedings={Emerging Technologies for Developing Countries. First International EAI Conference, AFRICATEK 2017, Marrakech, Morocco, March 27-28, 2017 Proceedings}, proceedings_a={AFRICATEK}, year={2017}, month={10}, keywords={Cloud computing Virtualization Developing countries Cloud services Cloud benefits Cloud prerequisites}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-67837-5_19} }
- Yness Boukhris
Year: 2017
Cloud Computing and Virtualization in Developing Countries
AFRICATEK
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67837-5_19
Abstract
Cloud computing has emerged since almost a decade as a paradigm for hosting and delivering services over networks. A growing number of business owners and organizations worldwide has adopted Cloud computing as it enables users to access a scalable and elastic pool of data storage and computing resources, as and when required. To build cloud based architectures, virtualization should be ensured as well. It plays a key role for providing flexibility and consolidation of the underlying resources. Despite the cloud computing is witnessing a fast and wide spread across the globe, this technology is not as trendy for some other states, especially for developing countries. The purpose of this theoretical study is to explore a new way for developing countries to benefit from cloud computing use cases and to deal with its challenges and obstacles.