With ‘Cloud Computing,’ there will be no need for the government to invest on expensive computing resources, thereby helping it to use the maximum available spare capacity of its IT hardware and software investments.
The Cloud Computing, which has already become a buzzword in major IT forums, was inspired by the cloud symbol which is often used to represent the Internet in flow charts and diagrams.
As a first step, the Kerala State Information Technology Mission (KSITM) has decided that a Cloud Computing test bed be set up on the premises of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala [IIITM-K]. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Chennai, will assist in conducting the feasibility study to set up a cloud environment for State Data Centre (SDC) of the government.
The SDC was set up by the Government in 2005 in Thiruvananthapuram to boost the e-governance activities.
State IT principal secretary Ajay Kumar told Express on Sunday that the government had started a number of e-governance projects to address the services of 39 government departments, over 122 field Departments and over 30,000 offices spread across the nook and corner of the state.
Ajay Kumar said that Personnel and Payroll Management System using SPARK (Service and Payroll Administrative Repository for Kerala) requires huge amount of resources during the peak period of computation at the end of every month.
Such applications may face problems with the system’s poor response time owing to want of resources.
The applications require heavy traffic only at the time of admission or result announcement. For the rest of the time, the system is idle. And there are a few departments, which have resources but do not need such huge resources for the applications hosted.
However, the Cloud Computing will help in the pooling of resources into large clouds in such cases and will increase the utilisation of resources effectively.
The proposed solution will be in two phases. The development will be carried out using open source software toolkit like Eucalyptus, Hadoop, with CDAC open source OS BOSS.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Sajimon P S
Quelle/Source: Express Buzz, 15.02.2010
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