Senior Multimedia Reporter
peter.christopher
@guardian.co.tt
There is significant reluctance to utilise cloud services in T&T.
This was just one of the observations made by territory sales manager Caribbean for Trellix, Camilo Beltran, of Trellix during ICT provider Nexsys International & Caribbean’s annual partner-client relation meeting and cocktail event at the Brix on Tuesday evening.
Trellix is a company which focuses on cybersecurity. In an interview with the Guardian during the event, he explained that while T&T is among one of the region’s most advanced countries when it comes to ICT readiness, this reluctance has coloured the country’s overall approach to new technology solutions.
“Most of the customers want to go to cloud but they are not sure how to do or if it is the best idea to do it. In this moment Trinidad in the Caribbean region is one of the most mature (ICT countries). That does not mean it has the most advantages or has more advantages than the others, but it is the one that is most prepared. That could be maybe because of the economic situation that is supported by oil and gas. But also because of the knowledge of cybersecurity matters inside of the country,’ said Beltran.
“What I see in Trinidad and Tobago is that many customers don’t want to go to the cloud not because they don’t have the money. In so many cases it’s because they have very good offline infrastructures like database, data centres things like that, that it is going to be better improving cybersecurity for example in that data centre and also having those services because they are working pretty good.” Despite this confidence in databases, Beltran warned that those that have been established have their limitations and companies should continue to invest or explore various options particularly amid the growing and varying cyber threats around the world.
“Compared to other countries, Trinidad is doing pretty well in that people here are looking for new solutions and trying to understand what is happening. But they need to continue doing that well to be the example for the rest of countries in the region,” said Beltran.