More firms are moving to position themselves to take a piece of the cloud computing market as the sector is forecast to contribute Sh1.4 trillion to the Kenyan economy in the next decade.
American multinational technology corporation Microsoft, which runs a public cloud computing platform dubbed Azure, defines the concept as the delivery of computing services – including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics and intelligence – over the internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources as well as economies of scale.