For years now, across the world, Governments have been arduously working on making their e-governance effective. This of course has a bearing on operation, introducing technology in every avenue of Government business, training people and converting all the existing data to digital data.  For maintaining the massive data that Government deals with, is quite a task because of which, even to this day big economies like China, India, Russia and United States of America have lot left to do. Organising data and creating secure systems and preventing data miners and hackers from accessing intelligence is also quite a challenge for not just big economies but nations worldwide.

Governments can benefit from Cloud

One of the major concerns however for the Governments is also building infrastructure and managing them. The investment in this regard is quite gigantic.  Since the dawn of technology dispersion, Governments have been painstakingly trying to diffuse the latest advents into the system. ICT development is one of the significant measures taken by Governments across nations. The primary motive however is to make information delivery and accessibility much simpler, increasing transparency. Swelling city population, increasing demand for various services and increasing data is creating a lot of pressure on the Governments. To strike a balance between meeting demand and financial consistence is imperative and the solution for exactly such concern is provided by CLOUD.

Governments can benefit from Cloud

The financial benefit of the cloud is pretty obvious, what is more important is to learn how Cloud can be the alma mater of the large volumes of data. Cloud solutions can offer more than lower operating costs, it can provide on-demand access to organise data, ensure powerful computing, storage, networking and access to management tools with heightened security, confidentiality and integrity of data systems.

The foremost feature that is critical to the Government is to archive large volume of data and efficiently access various data in real time, which is enabled by Cloud.

What can Cloud do?

How Government could Benefit?After years of exploring, US government seem to be finally ready for federal cloud adoption, for dual benefit of cost saving and the multiplicity of cloud solutions available for IT operations. Kevin Plexico, Vice President for information solutions at Deltek shared: “federal agencies will spend approximately $5.4 billion on cloud-related software, $4.5 billion on cloud-based infrastructure, and $477 million on cloud platforms by 2017”.in the Cloud/Gov IT conference 2013 .

The agencies will be able to effectively focus on ‘the Data’ rather than woe about the technology inconsistencies, as Cloud deployments have offered effective solutions for issues related to infrastructure management. Cloud deployments are also increasing efficiency as the agencies are able to handle volumes of data better.

How Government could Benefit?Government agencies can take benefit of creating individual clouds and sync them by creating interconnected clouds and meet larger demands related to workforce, simplified operations and reduced costs. By adopting cloud based solutions and deploying cloud strategies, Government can change the way the services are delivered.

Cloud computing simplifies services, however prior to adopting cloud the Government has to ensure high level of confidence in virtualisation and strategize for security of data. Plan data classification on confidential intelligence and others and have the service provider deploy a secure strategy.

The primary risk involved in cloud computing is security. A security is created on Cloud through password protection on the network. The strength of the user-created password is as effective as the practices of the individuals managing the networks. To manage such risk it is important to compartmentalise the cloud system to limit user access and manage by avoiding outsourcing. By creating system-wide server, a greater amount of security could be ensured.

Gravity of Cloud computing and E-Governance...

Cloud Computing can optimise the IT infrastructure and add newer services and provide solutions for ongoing storage needs at a reduced cost. Cloud computing also results in decreased software and application maintenance, while improving asset utilization. It also will increase agility in service delivery aiding to increase in real time response and effective workflow collaborations across different agencies.

Gravity of Cloud computing and E-Governance...

More importantly, the Government can resolve many issues related to efficiency, time and create a platform for the people to share their grievance and for agencies to redress them effectively. E-Governance is imperative for any Government on face of the earth today and switching to cloud thus makes eminent sense.

IIHT and Cloud Solutions

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