{"id":11242,"date":"2014-08-08T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3141277"},"modified":"2014-08-08T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T01:57:00","slug":"the-challenge-of-openstack-dev-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-challenge-of-openstack-dev-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge of OpenStack Dev in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you drive in Nairobi?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yes, I do,&#8221; came the quick reply.<\/p>\n<p>That surprised me, because I won&#8217;t drive in the Philippines, where I spend about half of my time. At least they drive on the right-hand side of the road in Manila, unlike in the former British colony of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>I was talking to Adam Nelson, an American who has set up shop in Nairobi to deliver public cloud services. His company is called Kili (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kili.io\/\" title=\"www.Kili.io\">www.Kili.io<\/a>) I wrote a short article about him the other day for Cloud Computing Journal, and branded his firm &#8220;The AWS of Africa.&#8221; To be sure, Adam would like to expand much more deeply into the potential user base in Kenya, he told me, and extend his service throughout East Africa and the continent. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3141277\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you drive in Nairobi?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yes, I do,&#8221; came the quick reply.<\/p>\n<p>That surprised me, because I won&#8217;t drive in the Philippines, where I spend about half of my time. At least they drive on the right-hand side of the road in Manila, unlike in the former Bri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}