[This article was published in the December 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Penetration of Internet, use of Web technologies, globalisation of operations have moved most of the critical IT Infrastructure of organisations be it Intranet or Internet applications to the Data Centres, resulting in the need for much larger capacities in Data Centres.
[This article was published in the October 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
eAgriculture is still at a nascent stage. Till the year 2007, the term eAgriculture was not even coined. During a global survey in 2006, including 3400 responses from 135 countries
National Informatics Centre, Government of India, which is the nodal agency for providing backbone support for all e-Governance initiative in the country, is said to come up with two Data Centres of tier 2 and 3 claas standards in two Indian cities – Pune and Hyderabad.
[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The first step in finding the best solution was to identify the right platform. With the aid of the National Informatics Centre (NIC), FCI identified 5 key criteria that must be fulfilled on the new platform.
