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Cloud Computing

  • IN: Sunny outlook for cloud computing

    Cloud computing should be tagged as ‘infrastructure’ to spur growth and establish India as a data management hub.

    Cloud computing has become a buzz word in the last few years. The idea of having easy access to powerful IT solutions without the huge cost implications of IT infrastructure is indeed an impelling value proposition. The technology allows storage of data and access to software on a pay-per-use model, thus helping companies cut costs. It also promises to revolutionise e-governance initiatives and fast-track healthcare and education delivery in the country.

  • IN: Tamil Nadu: State data centre to be cloud-enabled

    The State data centre, one of the core e-governance backbone infrastructure under National e-Governance Action Plan (NeGP), will be cloud enabled this year, according to Atul Anand, managing director Electronics corporation of Tamil Nadu.

    Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (eg, networks, servers, storage, applications, and services), that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.

  • IN: The silver lining in the Cloud

    Cloud has the potential to transform the way IT services are delivered.

    Cloud computing — is it beneficial? How to make it just more than efficient? Can it lead to business transformation? How easy and wise is it to walk the road where you have to follow the new fashion and be in vogue?

    In the last few years there has been an intense debate about ‘cloud’, and if we look at the outcomes, one thing is clear — this technology has moved deeper into the enterprise; more IT departments are considering cloud to reduce costs and lift the return on capital employed. There are several multinational and Indian companies competing in the cloud space, developing/introducing solutions relevant for Indian customers. A recent study by Zinnov Management Consulting predicts that the total cloud spends as a percentage of the total IT spend will rise from 1.4 per cent in 2010 to 8.2 per cent in 2015.

  • India at the Cusp of Cloud Revolution: CII Report

    Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has released a whitepaper titled "The Indian Cloud Revolution". KPMG and Amarchand Mangaldas & Shroff were the Knowledge Partners for this report.

    According to CII's latest report "Cloud based services can be leveraged by the Government to launch new e-Governance initiatives quicker and with lower overhead costs. A common Cloud platform will also enable local Governments and other public agencies to adopt e-Governance for better citizen services, without requiring the setting up of significant IT infrastructure."

  • India needs a Cloud Policy to boost e-Gov: CII

    The policy will set the guiding principles for data sovereignty and lay a foundation for large-scale adoption of the Cloud by different agencies

    The Indian Government can leverage Cloud-based services to launch new e-Governance initiatives quicker for better citizen services, without the need to install significant IT infrastructure, a Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) report says.

    The CII report, “The Indian Cloud Revolution”, said the data sovereignty and governance aspects, and study of the worldwide global practices relating to resolving jurisdictional conflicts will have to be taken into consideration while formulating any Cloud Policy.

  • India: 'Use of cloud computing beneficial in NeGP'

    Microsoft has reiterated its commitment to strengthen their presence in e-governance initiatives.

    Speaking at India Connect Mission seminar organised in Chandigarh, Microsoft discussed a host of areas, where it could offer solutions to help take IT to the citizens.

    Discussing the usage of cloud computing, Microsoft officials maintained usage of computing services in e governance initiatives could pioneer a new chart of growth for e-governance initiatives.

    Cloud computing would not only scale down the cost of operations for rolling out e-governance initiatives but also expedite the process as well.

  • India: E-governance may run on cloud computing

    Cloud computing might be one technique for the implementation of the national e-governance plan (NeGP), secretary, department of information technology (DIT) said on Tuesday. “Cloud computing may have a role in the national e-governance plan. There are certainly some advantages that cloud computing could accrue, but that needs to be properly understood and investigated,” said secretary, DIT, R Chandrashekhar.

    However, he also said that it was too early to say whether it would actually be a part of the plan or not, and to what extent that role would be prevalent. “But as people start using IT as a service such as software, data centres and all other means, which are all bundled together, cloud computing is also proving to be a fairly attractive model in India. First, many people may want to use ‘pay as you go’ model and that generally appeals to the Indian economy,” he added.

  • India: Jammu & Kashmir uses Madhya Pradesh govt's cloud computing facilities to rollout egovernance

    Private companies in India may have lagged behind in adopting cloud computing. So, it's the government now which has decided to act as a beacon. In one of the first cloud pilots in the country, the state of Jammu & Kashmir has successfully utilised computing services offered by the state of Madhya Pradesh to roll out citizen services online within 60 days at zero initial cost.

    The successful pilot may save the exchequer almost 50% of the Rs 1,378 crore allocated for state data centre projects, if two or more states start sharing the infrastructure. The centre is pushing other states too to use the cloud model, which enables sharing of resources (like software and hardware) already possessed by one state, with others, in a pay per use model.

  • India: Kerala: "Technology standardisation sans cloud computing"

    Kerala's Principal Secretary (IT) Ajay Kumar says there are still many ifs and buts in riding on cloud computing to check pricey computing resources

    Pioneer of e-Governance initiatives in Kerala, Principal Secretary (IT) of the state Ajay Kumar — has been taking up Cloud Computing for furthering the cause. The 1985 batch IAS officer has rolled technology, applied economics and business management into a single mission— to make Kerala high on Cloud computing. In a conversation with Pravin Prashant, he elaborates his plans for the state.

  • India: Kerala: Govt to introduce ‘Cloud Computing’

    The State Government plans to introduce ‘Cloud Computing’ into its e-governance domain to innovate and reshape the IT world.

    With ‘Cloud Computing,’ there will be no need for the government to invest on expensive computing resources, thereby helping it to use the maximum available spare capacity of its IT hardware and software investments.

    The Cloud Computing, which has already become a buzzword in major IT forums, was inspired by the cloud symbol which is often used to represent the Internet in flow charts and diagrams.

  • India's Public Cloud Revenue To Touch $731 Million

    Public cloud services revenue in India will reach $731 million by the end of 2015, an increase of $176 million over 2014 revenue of $555 million, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2015, public cloud services revenue is driven by high growth rates in key market segments, such as cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS), cloud management and security services, and software as a service (SaaS).

    Spending on IaaS will total $100 million in 2015, an increase of 25 percent over last year. Spending on cloud management/security will grow 36.6 percent to $82 million, and SaaS will grow 33.4 percent to $302 million this year.

  • Indian Government Announces Cloud Initiative

    The Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) in India has launched GI Cloud, a national cloud initiative to help the government leverage cloud computing for effective delivery of e-services.

    The project, initiated to support the implementation of the National e-Governance Plan of India (NeGP), aims to create a private cloud environment for the use of government departments and agencies at the centre and state levels.

  • Indian government stepping into cloud with mission-mode projects

    Taking its firm steps towards next-gen technology, Indian government is now leveraging cloud computing with huge multi-billion dollar mission-mode projects.

    Six of these projects will be started within just a month that will also help the government in evaluating what changes technology enhancement can bring for the improvisation of services for citizens.

  • Indonesia disaster management & the cloud

    The Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (in bahasa Indonesia, BMKG) collects data on weather, climate and earthquakes from more than 200 observation stations all over Indonesia. Weather, climate and earthquake data is dependent on geographic position, is time sensitive, and often relates to global phenomena. Effective collection of this data enables BMKG to provide weather, climate, earthquake and tsunami information services to Indonesian government departments, businesses and citizens.

    In addition to these above main functions, recently BMKG has been appointed by UNESCO as one of the Regional Tsunami Service Providers together with India and Australia, and also appointed by World Meteorological Organisation as a Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre (TCWC).

  • Japan's green government cloud

    Speaking at FutureGov’s last Government Cloud Forum in Singapore, Hideaki Sugiura, Director, IT Project Office, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), shared several cloud computing projects which the Japanese government has initiated.

    The Kasumigaseki Cloud integrated the data centres of different public sector ministries, reducing excess resources and maintenance of individual systems. METI developed a web site for its national ‘Eco-Points Programme’ in three short weeks by using cloud computing technology.

  • Japanese Prefecture implements cloud-based disaster management system

    The Shizuoka Prefecture, a region located on the eastern coast of Honshu island, has implemented a cloud-based disaster management system in an effort to prevent the loss of key data infrastructures during natural disasters.

    Keisuke Uchiyama, an Official from the Shizuoka Prefecture, said that the system was implemented with a budget of about JPY 200 million (USD 2.6 million), and is currently hosted on Salesforce.com’s servers overseas in the U.S. and will go live when an official disaster warning is issued by the Japanese Government.

  • Japanese University deploys cloud to empower business continuity plan

    Kyoto University in Japan, on January 10, announced its ICT progress on virtualising 128 servers and building an on-campus private cloud system to strengthen its business continuity plan capabilities for the university’s all-purpose server system and optimisation of ICT investment.

    In partnership with Fujitsu, the new on-campus cloud system enables key services on the university’s homepage and other servers even during disasters or blackouts in the Kansai region.

  • KE: Cloud Computing Has Democratised ICT Use

    In the late 1800s, Frederick Taylor birthed the field of management science, which fundamentally altered organisational structure, and helped pave the way for entrepreneurs to effectively participate in the industrial revolution. Taylor, for example, demonstrated how divorcing ownership from management and how worker specialisation could help firms scale-up rapidly and increase profitability. Arguably, there have been no similar means offered to revolutionise business until the arrival of ICT.

    Today ICT offers SMEs, particularly in Africa, the tools to revolutionise their business processes, and to operate just as efficiently and effectively as any world-class firm. However, according to the World Bank's Africa Competitiveness Report 2011, Africa overall has low penetration rates of most ICT tools, which is reflected in the country rankings for technological readiness.

  • Kerlink, Cloud Energy to build IoT solutions for rural Vietnam

    Kerlink  is teaming up with Vietnamese IoT startup Cloud Energy in building new solutions to meet demand for IoT services in rural areas around Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), expanding on their earlier collaboration on smart-building and energy-management projects in the city of nearly 9 million people.

    The two companies recently developed and deployed a fully wireless LoRaWAN network to monitor and manage a 900 kWp solar-power installation on a mushroom farm 80 km from the city. The installation of the wireless solar-power system was chosen by NG Investment for its superior advantages: stability of data reading, ability to connect to different inverter brands and the cost savings on investment and maintenance.

  • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia arranges an international forum on government cloud computing

    Saudi Arabia will host an international forum on G-Cloud that will be arranged by the e-Government Program (YESSER) on October 01, 2012. An elite group of cloud computing experts will attend the forum.

    The forum is designed to discuss prospects of introducing e-government cloud computing in Saudi Arabia. It will provide a rich environment for discussion and exchange of experience relevant to this concept. The forum will seek ways to introduce this concept in e-government services. Government trends will be reviewed in addition to the best international experience and practices. During the forum major features of the second action plan will be highlighted. Prospects of creating and delivering cloud computing services to government agencies will be discussed.

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