Technology today is considered as much a productive resource in an emerging economy like India, as land, labour and capital. According to Oracle India MD Shailender Kumar, in a lot of government projects cloud can help remove barriers to costly technology, opening opportunities for new services and products. “I would like to say that, as […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi began a two-day trip to Silicon Valley on Saturday with a visit to “green” car maker Tesla Motors Inc and a meeting with Apple Inc’s CEO, Tim Cook.Modi, 65, the first Indian leader to visit the US West Coast in more than 30 years, also met Indian-born CEOs Satya Nadella and […]
Following the trend of ‘Make In India’, the government in all set to resurrect their own operating system which is named Bharat Operating System Solutions or BOSS. The operating system which was originally developed in 2007 by National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software is now said to have been developed along with Gujarat Technical […]
Imagine being asked to submit your birth certificate to your employer by the end of the day. Most people would typically have to rummage through piles of files at home to locate it, making it a harrowing task.
Cloud Computing became a striking reality for the government and private sectors in India when many of the companies and projects in these sectors migrated to cloud. But what exactly is cloud computing? According to Wikipedia, Cloud Computing is a computing in which large groups of remote servers are networked to allow centralized data storage […]
To enhance e-governance, the Department of Information Technology of the Government of Maharashtra (DIT, GoM) in Western India set up a hybrid cloud architecture to help automate government-citizen interactions. Going by a partnership with BSNL, an India-based telco, and Dimension Data, the State of Maharashtra government will drive create a hybrid cloud architecture under the […]
To better harness the benefits of cloud computing, the government of India recently launched its Government of India (GI) Cloud initiative, ‘Meghraj’. It offers infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, storage-as-a-service, and software-as-a-service for the Indian public sector. Meghraj aims to enable the government (both centre and states) to leverage Cloud Computing for the effective delivery of e-services in […]
The Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) in India has launched GI Cloud, a national cloud initiative to help the government leverage cloud computing for effective delivery of e-services. The focus of the GI Cloud Task Force was to bring out the strategy direction and implementation roadmap of GI cloud for Government as a user […]
