The Government of India has launched a national cloud initiative – GI Cloud – to help the government leverage cloud computing for effective delivery of e-services. The project of the Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) has been initiated to support the implementation of the National e-Governance Plan of India (NeGP) and aims to create a private cloud environment for the use of government departments and agencies at the centre and state levels.
According to DeitY, the adoption of cloud computing will accelerate the delivery of e-services to citizens, and support other objectives such as increasing standardization, interoperability and integration, pooling of scarce and underused resources, and the spread of best practices.
A roadmap to GI Cloud was released by DeitY last week, assessing the ICT infrastructure currently in place in India and defining an implementation plan for GI Cloud. The roadmap declares that cloud computing environments will be established at the national and state levels, starting with one National Cloud, using new and existing data centers.
The roadmap specifies that detailed studies of the existing infrastructure capacity at the government data centers and the requirement for infrastructure and applications need to be conducted for effective implementation of GI Cloud.
