Government Integrated Data Center

The success of e-governance initiatives depends a great deal on sound ICT infrastructure. Therefore, due emphasis ought to be given on the development of e-government infrastructure in the country. Infrastructure needs to be built up for all aspects of e-governance, be it delivery of services by government or access of services by citizens or even for backend automation at government departments. Also, the government should ensure a coordinated development of infrastructure in various parts of the nation to avoid another divide between the ICT enabled and the non-enabled.
A data center is a centralized location for the storage, management, processing and exchange of data that exists within a specific enterprise or a specialized facility.
In general, data centers can be broken down into three types- Internet Data center (IDC), Storage area network (SAN) and Enterprise data center(EDC).
An Internet data center (IDC) is a facility that provides data and Internet services for other companies
A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a network of interconnected storage devices and data servers usually located within an enterprise data center or as an off-site facility offering leased storage space.
An Enterprise data center (EDC) is the central processing facility for an enterprise’s computer network
Presently we are on first phase of Data Center, an Internet data center (IDC).
Importance of GIDC
In the era of e-governance, government is expected to deliver its services to the citizens on 24*7 basis. To achieve this, the government has to set up a sound and stable infrastructure operational round the clock. Internet Data Centre is a facility which provides extremely reliable and secure infrastructure for running Internet operations on a 24*7 basis. It shall not at all be cost effective if each department starts setting up its own data centre as running a high class Internet Data Centre needs a lot of recurring resources. It is, therefore, suggested that the government may set up a high grade Data Centre at a National level to be used by all entities of the government. All departments should, in turn, establish high speed connectivity with the data centre so that they can manage their applications from their own premises in a secured manner.