India, with its vibrant IT Industry and accelerated adoption of IT in Government, is uniquely positioned to immensely benefit from cloud computing. There is tremendous opportunity for the Government and industry to partner, to drive adoption of cloud in India and also grow India into a hub for delivering Cloud Services. Cloud computing has also been identified as one of the thrust areas in the proposed National IT Policy. This is likely to unleash new growth opportunities for Indian IT Industry and also bring innovation in the way IT solution and services are delivered.
In this context, an Open House is being organised in New Delhi tomorrow by the Department of Electronics & IT ( DeitY), Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt of India, in partnership with NASSCOM and PWC. Sh Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Communications & IT would be delivering the keynote address. Sh Sachin Pilot, Minister of State in the Ministry would also be addressing the Open House.
Transitioning to cloud necessitates involvement of Government. There are issues which need to be answered while preparing a transparent and conducive regulatory framework. This framework coupled with other pertinent initiatives can result in increased adoption of Cloud model by Indian enterprises and also encourage Cloud Service Providers to set up Cloud operations in India.
It is critical to establish an ecosystem and provide framework for “Confidence Building Measures (CBM)” to cloud users. The transition to a cloud computing environment is in many ways an exercise in risk management entailing identifying and assessing risks, and taking the steps to reduce it to an acceptable level. Risks identified can be carefully balanced with a robust data security law and privacy framework. While the Government has published some policies on Information Security & Privacy such as Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information Rules, 2011 (3) and the guidelines for strategic control outsourced projects, there’s a need to create a comprehensive set of information protection, security and risk management policies, standards and supporting content to protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability and privacy of information resources. This includes the data ownership, retention policy and content regulation and the measures users can seek in case of any data theft or leakage out of the system and faster resolution and remedial to the user.
Some of the key issues in Cloud services are :
• Cloud Policy and Strategy
• Data location and cross border laws
• Tax implications
• Potential threat of data security and privacy
• Industry specific compliances and regulations
• Mystifying Licensing and registration requirements imposed by Service Providers
• Lack of clarity with respect to Intellectual Property Rights
• Perplexing contracting terms provided by Cloud Service Provider
• Complicated Audit
• Cloud computing is so significant it even raises questions of how the model will be leveraged by the Indian Industry to gain a competitive advantage. However, it is seen that both the public and private sector organizations are not moving to the cloud as part of a deliberate big bang migration or strategic decision. Rather, they are adopting virtualization and other cloud technologies organically from within, often to address the IT department’s cost and complexity in an ad hoc way. Instead, there is a need to move purposefully towards the cloud—a way that would identify and address gaps early and mitigate the risks.
• The Government can play a significant role engaging Cloud Service Providers who, in turn, can help promote economic development. However, in order to enhance this business opportunity, it is necessary to make available an eco-system which allows these service provider’s global competitiveness. Government can facilitate such an ecosystem which encourages the Cloud Providers to deliver Cloud services from India. There are many challenges faced by the existing and prospective cloud service providers which are very unique to the Indian Environment.
Some of the challenges are listed below:
• Meeting multiple contractual requirements especially when data protection requirements as well as data breach liabilities of different countries vary considerably; Burden of privacy requirements of organizations and difficulty in meeting diverse security requirements
• Huge initial capital expenditure / investment
• Technological limitations i.e. Interoperability – Many business want interoperability between their in-house infrastructure and the cloud. Many cloud platforms cannot interoperate because they use different technologies and they configure the environment differently.
• Infrastructure challenge with respect to cheap and steady Power supply, Land/Real Estate at affordable cost, connectivity and network bandwidth
• Awareness and local language support – With 29 official languages in India, most cloud service providers are facing challenge in providing interfaces in Indian languages.
It is important to build India’s “Cloud Vision and Strategy” and harness the power of cloud technology to take public services, to the citizens’ doorstep. To that end, DeitY has already embarked upon an ambitious project “Silverline Architecture for Cloud” with an aim to:
Create a technological, organizational and process related environment that will enable delivery of “Cloud Services on Demand”.
Facilitate and enable rapid replication of successful applications across states who are willing to subscribe to the model.
Seamlessly unify the existing and future assets including National Data Centres (NDCs), State Data Centres (SDCs), Common Service Centres (CSCs), MSDG, National Knowledge Network (NKN), National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN).
Creation of an “e-Gov Application Store” accessible to States/UTs on voluntary freewill basis.
Enhancing the delivery capabilities of existing applications and those in pipeline
Ensure the technology is secure and future-proof
In this context, an Open House is being organised in New Delhi tomorrow by the Department of Electronics & IT ( DeitY), Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt of India, in partnership with NASSCOM and PWC. Sh Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Communications & IT would be delivering the keynote address. Sh Sachin Pilot, Minister of State in the Ministry would also be addressing the Open House.
Transitioning to cloud necessitates involvement of Government. There are issues which need to be answered while preparing a transparent and conducive regulatory framework. This framework coupled with other pertinent initiatives can result in increased adoption of Cloud model by Indian enterprises and also encourage Cloud Service Providers to set up Cloud operations in India.
It is critical to establish an ecosystem and provide framework for “Confidence Building Measures (CBM)” to cloud users. The transition to a cloud computing environment is in many ways an exercise in risk management entailing identifying and assessing risks, and taking the steps to reduce it to an acceptable level. Risks identified can be carefully balanced with a robust data security law and privacy framework. While the Government has published some policies on Information Security & Privacy such as Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information Rules, 2011 (3) and the guidelines for strategic control outsourced projects, there’s a need to create a comprehensive set of information protection, security and risk management policies, standards and supporting content to protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability and privacy of information resources. This includes the data ownership, retention policy and content regulation and the measures users can seek in case of any data theft or leakage out of the system and faster resolution and remedial to the user.
Some of the key issues in Cloud services are :
• Cloud Policy and Strategy
• Data location and cross border laws
• Tax implications
• Potential threat of data security and privacy
• Industry specific compliances and regulations
• Mystifying Licensing and registration requirements imposed by Service Providers
• Lack of clarity with respect to Intellectual Property Rights
• Perplexing contracting terms provided by Cloud Service Provider
• Complicated Audit
• Cloud computing is so significant it even raises questions of how the model will be leveraged by the Indian Industry to gain a competitive advantage. However, it is seen that both the public and private sector organizations are not moving to the cloud as part of a deliberate big bang migration or strategic decision. Rather, they are adopting virtualization and other cloud technologies organically from within, often to address the IT department’s cost and complexity in an ad hoc way. Instead, there is a need to move purposefully towards the cloud—a way that would identify and address gaps early and mitigate the risks.
• The Government can play a significant role engaging Cloud Service Providers who, in turn, can help promote economic development. However, in order to enhance this business opportunity, it is necessary to make available an eco-system which allows these service provider’s global competitiveness. Government can facilitate such an ecosystem which encourages the Cloud Providers to deliver Cloud services from India. There are many challenges faced by the existing and prospective cloud service providers which are very unique to the Indian Environment.
Some of the challenges are listed below:
• Meeting multiple contractual requirements especially when data protection requirements as well as data breach liabilities of different countries vary considerably; Burden of privacy requirements of organizations and difficulty in meeting diverse security requirements
• Huge initial capital expenditure / investment
• Technological limitations i.e. Interoperability – Many business want interoperability between their in-house infrastructure and the cloud. Many cloud platforms cannot interoperate because they use different technologies and they configure the environment differently.
• Infrastructure challenge with respect to cheap and steady Power supply, Land/Real Estate at affordable cost, connectivity and network bandwidth
• Awareness and local language support – With 29 official languages in India, most cloud service providers are facing challenge in providing interfaces in Indian languages.
It is important to build India’s “Cloud Vision and Strategy” and harness the power of cloud technology to take public services, to the citizens’ doorstep. To that end, DeitY has already embarked upon an ambitious project “Silverline Architecture for Cloud” with an aim to:
Create a technological, organizational and process related environment that will enable delivery of “Cloud Services on Demand”.
Facilitate and enable rapid replication of successful applications across states who are willing to subscribe to the model.
Seamlessly unify the existing and future assets including National Data Centres (NDCs), State Data Centres (SDCs), Common Service Centres (CSCs), MSDG, National Knowledge Network (NKN), National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN).
Creation of an “e-Gov Application Store” accessible to States/UTs on voluntary freewill basis.
Enhancing the delivery capabilities of existing applications and those in pipeline
Ensure the technology is secure and future-proof
Source:-PIB
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