The advent of Cloud computing came with the use, among other things, of application programming interfaces (APIs), which can be defined as a business function exposed on the Internet to command and orchestrate a set of resources with the aim of delivering an IT service.
Migration to the Cloud is the ideal moment to consider a more standardised and automated vision of resource delivery, such as virtual machines or storage.
This is how the entire industry relies on concepts that represent the state of the art. Planning a migration to IaaS is, in essence, planning its reversibility.
Reversibility in IT is the ability for a client who has outsourced their operations to a managed service provider to recover their data at the end of a contract.
ST Digital does not handle its clients' data, but provides a technical platform capable of hosting applications, managed by the user, that process data.
However, beyond this classical definition, reversibility today concerns infrastructures.
ST Digital operates a generic technical platform that limits vendor lock-in, which greatly facilitates migrations between service providers.
The 100% African cloud relies on QEMU-KVM technology to provide operating system virtualisation to its users.
QEMU-KVM is an open-source technology (https://www.qemu.org/) and easy to access: since no technological component is proprietary, it is entirely possible to recreate a virtual infrastructure hosted at ST Digital on traditional machines. Additionally, QEMU-KVM is used by the majority of IaaS providers.
Reversibility may be the subject of an accompanying service provision.
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