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LOUD manifests to and projects hosted at the National
encapsulated in simple be an effective way of Cloud. The National Cloud is the first
packages. For their needs, the provisioning ICT in- and only one of its kind available un-
departments now have multiple frastructure set-ups in der the MeghRaj initiative of Indian
options to choose, ranging from government because of Government. Information and servic-
preconfigured web, applications its cost effectiveness, agility and sus- es of the National cloud are provided
and database Servers with tainability, which further ensures rap- through its portal https://cloud.gov.in
Commercial/Open Source id deployment & delivery of e-Gov- which has been recently enhanced for
ernance projects and services. With its look and feel as well as usability.
System Software to Ready-to-
the introduction of National Cloud With the launch of National Cloud,
Configure Servers and Storages. during the beginning of 2014, India the departments can avail cloud in-
Application systems those are government has set its position to a frastructure with much ease. They
generic in nature and commonly new high with the high availability of now have the flexibility of scaling up
used by multiple government its ICT infrastructure for e-Govern- facilities based on department’s re-
organisations are also offered ance. The National Cloud has further quirement of resources time to time.
under the SaaS model of National been taken up as a launching pad for This saves considerable amount of
Cloud fulfilling the aspirations of DIGITAL cost, time and enables resource opti-
Redesigned MeghRaj National Cloud Portal homepage Web + Application Server ordering Dashboard
misation. Minimising the efforts for India, Digital India Portal, Digital yyOrganized different Levels of tech-
ICT procurement procedures, the de- Locker, JOSAA (online counseling for nology awareness & hands-on pro-
partments can now focus more on the Admissions in Engineering IITs, ISM, grammes
aspects of development, implementa- NITs, IIITs) and eHospital. Currently, yyArranged VC based knowledge
tion and rollout of e-governance ap- around 5000 Virtual Machines have transfer sessions
plications. already been allocated to about 250 Subsequently, it was made mandato-
The National Cloud provides all the different projects of Central Govt. ry that NIC officers (Cloud Technical
popular industry standard formats of Ministries/Departments, State Gov- Administrator/ Coordinator) attached
services such as Infrastructure as a ernments, District administrations and with each project to guide its users for
Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service other organizations. quick accomplishment of various pro-
(PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) cedures such as creation and manage-
CHALLENGES FACED ment of Virtual Servers, coordination
and Storage as a Service (STaaS).
AND ACTIONS TAKEN TO for Security Audit Clearance, DNS en-
In order to make it easy and simple for OVERCOME THEM try etc. The On-Boarding process was
the departments, the Cloud services Soon after the inception of National
earlier taking a week time for any gov-
are now encapsulated in simple pack- Cloud Services, the cloud manage- ernment organization to acquire the
ages. For their needs, the departments ment team faced number of issues. Cloud & initiate the work. This process
now have multiple options to choose, Most of the users, including NIC of- was subsequently shortened to 2 days
ranging from preconfigured web, ap- ficers across the Country were finding by integration of VPN and supporting
plications and database Servers with it difficult to use the Cloud services, as Network/ Security Services along with
Commercial/Open Source System they were new to such kind of servic- automation of various internal manual
Software to Ready-to-Configure Serv- es. In order to address these challeng- process of the same workflow.
ers and Storages. Application systems es on immediate priority, following
those are generic in nature and com- steps were taken: HOW TO AVAIL CLOUD
monly used by multiple government
organisations are also offered under
yySet up 24x7 Help Desk SERVICES
yySet up Cloud Orientation Cell Step 1 - Visit the National Cloud por-
the SaaS model of National Cloud.
Since the launch of National Cloud
Services, various e-governance projects
of national as well as state level have
been made operational on National
Cloud. This includes MyGov (with
over 1.2 million Users engaging with
Government), Make-in-India, Prime
Minister’s Office Portal, Biometrics
Aadhaar Attendance System for
Many of the Important initiatives and Projects now run on cloud
Govt. Employees (BAS), Digitize