Gujarat: Among First to Setup SDC in India : Neeta Shah, Director (e-Governance), Gujarat Informatics Centre, Government of Gujarat

Challenges in setting up of Data Centres starts as soon as you start looking out for the right place. It is important that the Data Centre is setup at a location which is not disaster prone, can be physically secured, robust surveillance and capability of post activity data analysis and has room for growth. Other challenges to be kept in mind while setting up of DC are sizing of storage.

State Data Centre

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

In the early age of computing, huge computers involving complex sets of components were present which required a lot of power and cooling and posed a daunting task for infrastructure management and operations. During the computing industry boom, computers started to be deployed everywhere, in many cases with little or no care about operating requirements.

SDC: Opening up Huge Opportunities : Dileep Kumar, Director Product Management, ADC KRONE

The Indian market is gearing up to VOIP, high bandwidth and speed demands, server virtualisation, Data Centre growth and proliferation of LANs. All these are drivers for growth in structured cabling. Intelligent Cabling (PLM) is also catching up pretty fast amongst large enterprises

Karnataka State Data Centre: Sharing Common Infrastructure

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

The State Data Centre of Government of Karnataka was set up during 2004-05 as a core common technology infrastructure. The State Data Centre (SDC) provides the infrastructure required for consolidating state level applications at a central facility.

PPP: Philosophy of Success : Anurag Jain, Government of Madhya Pradesh, India

MP was the first state to put cyber treasury in place whereby citizens can avail the facility by making anytime, anywhere tax/fee payments

Computer Literacy Boosting e-Governance : B K Agarwal, Government of Himachal Pradesh, India

Non-Availability of enough funds is a magor roadblock in the implementation of e-Governance in Himachal Pradesh

Tapping the Advantage of ICT Literacy : Ram Muivah, Government of Manipu

Employment Exchange, Finance Department, e-Procurement, Land Records, Geographical Information System (GIS) for administrative planning will be given priority in the future

Target: 100% e-Literacy : Dr Ajay Kumar, Government of Kerala

100 percent household e-Literacy has been attained in Malappuram, Kannur, Kollam, Kazarkode, Kozhikode and Thrissur districts and post-literacy services like e-Pay, e-Krishi, e-Learning are being introduced here

Our Focus – Capacity Building : Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra, Government of Orissa

We have planned to float the RFP for the State Data Centre by the first week of January 2009 and completing all the tendering process by March 31, 2009

Attracting investments in ITeS : V S Bhaskar, Government of Assam, India

So far, 397 CSCs are operational and by March 31, 2009, the entire lot will be rolled out