Data Security through Private Clouds : Dr. Ajay Kumar, IT Secretary-Government of Kerala, India

Government is well aware of cloud and its potential. But people are just waiting to get it more matured and real.

Sound Architecture: Key to Homogenising Cloud : Tan Sian Lip, Vice President Solutions and Consulting CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd

Sound architecture design is key to homogenising the view of the Cloud on the user-front. Different virtual machines have different security paradigms that have to be tied together and analysed to ensure there are no loopholes

Cloud Computing – Enabling Efficient e-Governance Adoption at Grassroots

[This article was published in the April 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The power of e-Governance in transforming citizen services has been proven. Not only does technology enabled governance results in quick, transparent and reliable citizen-centric services, but it also acts as a check on corruption.

Opportunity to Share and Harmonise Efforts in ICT across Asia

[This article was published in the January 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

e-Asia 2009, Asia

The ‘Cloud’ is Evolution, not Revolution

[This article was published in the January 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

This aspect of cloud computing is simply an evolution of the security practices in traditional outsourcing.

Data Centre Operations & Management: An Integrated Approach

[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.

Future of Information Storage is ‘Virtual’

[This article was published in the December 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Growth in information is forcing a transformation in the IT sector. The acceleration in the pace of growth in information will only gather momentum, with the next four years expected to see a five-fold increase in information from 486 extabytes to 2502 extabytes, according to the Digital Universe Study done by IDC. Interestingly, 70% of this information explosion is going to be created by the private domain with more photos, videos, social networking and many other applications coming into play and mobile Internet becoming more popular.

Data Centre Initiative as Management Approach

[This article was published in the December 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Madhya Pradesh has been one of the earliest States to adopt Information Technology for improvement of internal processes and for delivering citizen services

Powering a People Ready Business in Utilities

[This article was published in the June 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

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Tapping ICT potential : S Ramakrishnan, C-DAC, India

C-DAC was given the mandate and privilege to take the initiative for aggregating a minimal set of Indian language software tools and fonts in all the 22 languages and release them free in the next couple of years