arravo and aws has implored the use of cloud as a digital transformation tool to ensure data safety and cyber security in Nigeria.
Group Chief Executive Officer, arravo, Dr. Ayo Adegboye while speaking in Abuja on Wednesday at a meeting in partnership with AWS on driving innovation with the cloud stated that cloud adoption is a leap into technological future which has come to stay hence should be embraced.
Adegboye explained that securing data with the cloud ensures significant reduction in cost with little or no barriers with IT infrastructure more scaleable, modular and secure.
“Security to a large extent is inevitable but then what Amazon has done is to give you multiple layer of security in the cloud, have never heard of any major compromise when data seats in the cloud which is what we are bringing to this part of the world.
“Cloud is ready and available as long as you have access to it, it is much available and when we talk about moving fast, scaling up fast in any sector of the economy, there is no point reinventing the wheel, the only way we can take the leap step is to leap forward and advance, what ever we are doing today is to consider going into the cloud, with cloud adoption, it is just taking a leap into the future so cloud has come to stay and the future of technology is the cloud.”
Meanwhile, Adegboye affirm that though there are lots of threats in cyber-security but with the adoption of cloud, there are different people with skill capacity who manages and secure the cloud especially with a cloud platform like AWS, data safety is guaranteed.
Also speaking at the event, Regional Lead (PS), West, East and Central Africa for AWS, Robin Njiru
noted that as a result of cloud computing through the partnership with arravo there has been exponential growth in business across public and private sector.
“As we engage with them today our vision as an organization is to become the utmost customer-centric organization, also this partnership is really to enhance and improve the overall experience of the customers which is the citizen, it also to improve the government-employee relationships as they service their physician, clinician or educator by making available tool that enable them to make them achieve larger impact as they interact.”
Njiru explained that the cloud is an infrastructure in Nigeria that allows the citizens to enjoy cloud computing with Infrastructure that is already sitting in Nigeria, while enhancing their overall experience of businesses which makes them to access cloud computing on whatever business they are doing in a faster, cost-efficient manner and in a way that allows there business experience to expand.
Assistant Director, Policy and Planning, of the ICT department of Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Atim Isong (Mrs) on her part stated that cloud computing is an eye-opener that the youth can leverage on to enhance their capacity building mechanism and if well harnessed will duly engage them.