Feroz khan inaugurates State Data Centre

JAMMU, APRIL 25: Minister of State for Information Technology Department (IT), Mr. Feroz Ahmed Khan inaugurated Jammu and Kashmir State Data Centre (SDC), an important element of the core infrastructure for supporting e-Governance initiatives in the J&K State.The Centre has been setup by the Information Technology Department under National e-Governance plan (NeGP). The Data centre has been developed as a reliable and secure infrastructure for hosting and managing e-Governance application for different departments and delivers services quickly and effectively. This is first IT infrastructure project being commissioned in the State. In the beginning some departments started work through their own small setups of servers as per their application requirement or some kind of storage for their digitized date etc. But, global safety norms could not be followed in such type of setups. Therefore, concept of State Data Centre as core infrastructure was evolved under the National e-Governance Plan for running e-governance activities. State Data Centre (SDC) is one of the important elements of the core infrastructure for supporting e-Governance initiatives in the J&K State. State Data Centre will provide many facilities like central repository of the State, secure Data storage, Disaster Recovery. The most important data set of National Population Register (NPR) will also be stored by the Information Technology Department in this data centre. State Data centre is equipped with SAN storage, Blade servers, dedicated bandwidth of 20 Mbps with provision of backup connectivity from different ISPs, complete power redundancy and integrated management system to monitor the health of Data Centre. The State Data Centre shall enable aggregation of IT Infrastructure (Hardware, Storage, Networking and Software) and Management Resources and ensure better Operations, Standardization of Systems and management control leading to faster deployment and reduced costs, offering dynamic scalability as their demand grows including security related requirements and uptime of the highest order. The data centre currently hosts GP Fund applications and some other applications of other departments are in the process of migration. The prestigious CCTNS project of Ministry of Home Affairs will be hosted on the data centric directly as and when it is completed. Moreover, the State spatial data centre project laboratory will also be directly connected to the SDC in future and this will enable hosting of Geo Spatial data of various departments in a safe and secure manner.