The government of India has floated a draft RFP for provisional accreditation of cloud services of private cloud providers in the country.
The government is offering a new model of cloud computing services (including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) to the users through ‘GI Cloud’ coined as MeghRaj. The focus of MeghRaj is to evolve a strategy and implement various components to ensure proliferation of cloud in government vertical through private cloud players.
The aim of the cloud policy is to realize a comprehensive vision of government private cloud environment available for use by central and state government departments, districts and municipalities to accelerate ICT-enabled service improvements and also provide flexibility in terms of choice of technology.
DeitY proposes accreditation of the cloud service offerings of private service providers so that end-user departments can leverage in addition to the National Cloud services offered by NIC for e-governance solutions. The cloud services, offered under National Cloud as well as the accredited private cloud service providers, will be published through a GI Cloud Services directory for use by government departments or agencies both at the centre as well as states.
According to industry experts, “Players like Reliance Communications, NIC, Reliance Jio, TCS, Wipro, Microsoft, Amazon and others are actively participating in the Draft RFP for private cloud players.”
GI Cloud or MeghRaj will be a set of discrete cloud computing environments spread across multiple locations, built on existing or new infrastructure, following a set of common protocols, guidelines and standards issued by the government of India.
The primary purpose of this RFP is to enable DeitY to provisionally accredit the below cloud service offerings of private service providers for an initial period of two years. This will be an open accreditation process to allow for new entrants into the accredited list of cloud service providers as well as the re-accreditation of the already accredited cloud service providers.
In order to be accredited by DeitY and be part of the GI Cloud Services Directory, the cloud service offerings will require certification of compliance to a common set of standards and guidelines on the security, interoperability, data portability, SLAs and contractual terms & conditions.
The government is looking at various requirements from private service providers like: service management and provisioning; user/admin portal; integration; LAN/WAN; data center facilities; cloud storage service; virtual machines; security; legal compliance; management reporting; and exit management/transition.
Once the draft is finalized, DeitY will invite proposals from the private cloud service providers for provisional accreditation of cloud service offerings for a combination of security level 0 or security level 1 or both for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); Platform as a Service (PaaS); Business Continuity as a Service (BCaaS); Dev/Test Environment as a Service (DevOps); and Virtual Desktops as a Service.
It is expected that the RFP for provisional accreditation of cloud service offerings of private service providers in the country will be floated soon and will be finalized before Ist quarter of 2016.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Pravin Prashant
Quelle/Source: TeleAnalysis, 29.11.2015
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