![]() ![]() Findings from the research showed the key challenges to include inadequate awareness of local cloud service vendors, poor innovation and local content, inadequate cloud infrastructure, local cloud vendor interoperability issue, national insecurity, shortages in skilled personnel, Service Level Agreement (SLA), security strategies, privacy, compliance terms, and requirements issues. Descriptive and inferential analysis was used in analyzing the collected data via IBM SPSS software. ![]() The surveyed data were obtained through an online form which was distributed via Linkedln. The research employed a non-probability purposive sampling approach. This paper assessed the challenges to local cloud computing services adoption among sixty-seven (67) businesses and organizations in Nigeria. ![]() However, there are key challenges that must be addressed by the local cloud service providers in the country in order not to lose out to the foreign cloud service providers. The shift to the cloud in today's COVID-19 driven world has created an opportunity for investments to improve local cloud computing services. I would probably say that unless you have a dedicated sysadim, a local cluster is going to be difficult or impossible to run, but you might get away with a local (underdesk) server if you have intermediate needs (your 48x4x4 job might run in reasonable time in a 40 core under desk server if it had enough memory).Cloud momentum seems unstoppable in Nigeria, as businesses and organizations in the country see less and less advantage in the slog of maintaining their infrastructure. If not very often than cloud is probably more reasonalbe. If its often, then a local cluster is probably going to be cost efficient. How often do you envisage having either single jobs that will take, say, more than 10 cores, or have a large number of low core jobs (you can probably run 10 4 core jobs one after the other on a workstation, but say 48x4hrx4 core jobs is going to be pushing it, like a 48 sample RNAseq experiment). Whether you choose local cluster or cloud for jobs that are too big for a workstation is another question. Even if you what cloud, you will still need some local compute, even if thats a powerful workstation. I don't think that cloud will every replace having some local compute resources.
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