Cloud Computing Powering India's Priority Of 'Digital-First Country'

- Sunil Mahale

Digital India envisions creating high speed digital highways, that will impact commerce and create a digital footprint for every individual. Technologies based on mobility, analytics, Internet of things and most importantly, cloud technologies are the building blocks for the digital India mission. There is a growing need to manage huge volumes of data, and making them readily available to public through digital cloud services. Cloud has a pivotal role in enabling this change.

While Data centers have become crucial to this transformation, IT leaders increasingly recognize that current data centers have reached their limits for supporting how state and local governments need to work and provide services. Lightening the load to adapt to increasing demand is the principle many government IT managers have in mind as they look to make data centers more efficient, flexible and capable for delivering new services. Government IT departments are also prioritizing investments in data center consolidation and new technologies to enable higher IT service levels.

There are three trends that are impacting government IT today:

- Virtualization and cloud

- Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

- Flexible infrastructure for application development and delivery

EVOLVING THE DATA CENTER TO HYPERCONVERGENCE FOR VIRTUALIZATION AND CLOUD: