India Government Goes Cloud

Indian Government Goes "CLOUD"

Big news for Indian Cloud Geeks

Yesterday, the Economic Times stated that, Indian government has decided to place some critical Information on dedicated private clouds.

The government is planning to establish a national level cloud based network connecting the individual state level data centers. Indian IT department has sent proposals to national IT giants like Hewlett Packard (HP), IBM, Cisco (CSCO) and Dell to set up and maintain private clouds in each state.

Indian Government goes "CLOUD"

Here's what Economic Times have to say - 

"India’s Department of Information Technology is planning to set up a national cloud based network that connects all state data centers which would make that the backbone of national e-governance plan, which when completed would deliver many government to citizen and government business services via the internet. In effect, each of the 28 states and 7 union territories will now have a private cloud of their own. The Department of IT has invited proposals from IT companies like Hewlett Packard (HP), IBM, Cisco (CSCO) and Dell to set up and maintain private clouds in each state. The move may cost the government less than (around 100 million rupees), and will help the exchequer prevent waste of money on duplication of resources.”

Keep Clouding.