We quit high-potential jobs to get SMEs onto the cloud

M2M Systems co-managers Clare Mungai and Rasto Kiplangat, as well as cloud engineer Gilbert Ngetich (centre), pose with the Microsoft award their company won this year for its work in getting enterprises into cloud computing. [PHOTO: JECKONIA OTIENO/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: When Microsoft held its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, six Kenyan firms were among those awarded for exemplary work.

Among them was M2M Systems, which received the small and mid-market cloud solutions award for getting firms to take up cloud computing, a technology concept that has picked up steam in the last few years.