CloudCamp Cebu enlightens attendees on cloud computing
5:59 AM
Vernon Joseph Go
HE CloudCamp Cebu 2012 enlightened its participants to understand the importance of cloud computing to businesses, including small and medium enterprises, as this technology allows the storing of information at a minimal cost.
The event, held on July 4 at the Marriott Hotel in Cebu City, speakers of the event tried to convey the message to the about 200 participants that cloud computing can be used to store information with mininal cost.
Jojo Colina of ArcusIT Inc. (arcusit.ph), host of the event, explained that this technology allows anyone to share resources through the different available infrastructure.
Cloud computing, Colina explained, does not only allow people to share their data among them, but also protect these pieces of information from being corrupted especially when the hardware of the company conks out.
Citing the case of a company whose services suffered after one of its networks was busted because of a calamity, Colina explained that cloud computing allows organizations to accesst tools necessary to protect their data.
Companies that offer cloud computing as a service, Colina added, have invested a huge amount to secure the data of their customers. In this way, he added, customers are confident that their data are protected.
Other experts on the technology, like Benjie Tan of the sponsoring Globe Business, explained that cloud computing provides its user the mechanism on how to secure data.
Tan said that the user can design the layer of security depending on the need and the capability.
Meanwhile, Kevin Pratesa, ASEAN VMWARE director of Service Providers and Public Cloud, said that one of the advantages of cloud solutions is that it can give an extra level of security and extra level of disaster recovery mechanism in case something happens to the primary level in times of failure. On cloud security, Pratesa stressed that addressing security should be two-pronged---physical security and virtual security.
Christopher Syling of Intel emphasized the need for the end-users to also secure its system as it would run futile for the providers to only secure its facilities while end-users are not.
CloudCamp Cebu 2012 also became the venue for the discussion of the types of cloud computing as it can become a service in terms of being an infrastructure, a software and a platform.
CloudCamp will also be held in Davao in November, organizers said.
Joining ArcusIT in bringing the event to Cebu were Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Junior International Chamber of Mandaue and Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (CEDF-IT).
Globe Telecom, VMWare, NetSuite, DataOneAsia, Appxys, Comfac Global Group and Intel Philippines also supported CloudCamp Cebu.
The event gathered those familiar with this new technology trend and those who wanted to know more about it, including companies that have been using the technology in running their businesses, as well as those who intend to tap cloud computing as a service for their businesses.
