Kapil Sibal Launches ‘National Cloud’ Under ‘MeghRaj'

Kapil Sibal Launches ‘National Cloud’ Under ‘MeghRaj'

Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mr. Kapil Sibal today launched the National Cloud under ‘MeghRaj’ Initiative. The National Cloud is being implemented by NIC.

In order to utilize and harness the benefits of Cloud Computing, Government of India has embarked upon an ambitious initiative – ‘GI Cloud’ which has been named as ‘MeghRaj’. The focus of this initiative is to accelerate delivery of e-services in the country while optimizing ICT spending of the Government. This will ensure optimum utilization of the infrastructure and speed up the development and deployment of eGov applications.

The National Cloud will help the departments to procure ICT services on demand in the OPEX model rather than investing upfront on the CAPEX. The Cloud Services available are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Storage as a Service (STaaS). Some of the features of the National Cloud include self service portal, multiple Cloud solutions, secured VPN access and multi location Cloud. NIC is providing Cloud services under the umbrella of ‘MeghRaj’.