India all set to commence Cloud Computing Project "Meghraj"

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India all set to commence Cloud Computing Project  
As per a latest announcement, Meghraj, the Union Government's cloud computing project, Meghraj is all set to roll out next month. The project will initially focus on an e-Governance app store at the National Data Center.

Among other things, the Meghraj will also be a repository and marketplace of e-governance apps. These are cloud-ready apps that can run on national clouds or others. They are also downloadable, and can be run at state data centers. The project can find application in areas like PDS and land records. However, specifics of such application are yet to be worked out. The DeitY functions under the Union Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, said Renu Budhiraja, a Senior Director, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY).

Research firm Gartner forecasts the Indian cloud services revenue to have a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.2% from 2012 through 2017 across all segments of the cloud computing market.

The GI Cloud will be funded on a project-by-project basis. "There are more things coming up. Later, we can also expect to have a Centre for Excellence for Cloud Computing", added Budhiraja.
The Adoption and Implementation Roadmap released earlier this year by the DeitY details the Centre for Excellence as crucial in terms of capability building, providing advisory and spreading awareness within the government about cloud and its benefits, apart from international collaboration and coordinating research and development in this area.

According to the paper, the cloud, in this case known as the GI Cloud, will provide on-demand programming, testing platforms, and software and data services......See More

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