Cloud Success story in India Asvija B Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore. INDIA ASREN Workshop on Clouds Education, for Research and Education, Italy Italy
Contents Government / National Initiatives Clouds in Indian Business Challenges in India Conclusion 2
National Policy on IT Department of Electronics and Information Technology 18-point agenda regarding the creation of IT solutions for electronic, R&D, cybersecurity and IT policies : Key takeaways: 1. National rollout of mobile service delivery gateway 2. National Information Infrastructure (NII 2.0) 3. National cloud computing initiative (Phase I) 4. Setting up of a National e-governance Academy 5. Scheme for IT mass literacy 6. Common man interface 7. Setting up 10 new Software Technology Parks of India centers 8. egov App Store 9. National cybersecurity policy 10. Setting up semiconductor wafer fabrication manufacturing facilities 11. Scheme for financial assistance for setting up electronics and information and communication technology academies in states and union territories for faculty development. 12. Electronic system design manufacturing 13. Scheme to advance research in the areas of electronics system design and manufacturing and IT/IT-enabled services
Meghraj the GI Cloud Cloud.gov.in GI Cloud - Government of India s cloud computing environment that will be used by government departments and agencies at the centre and states Cloud computing environment at a national level A common repository of cloud - based infrastructure resources and applications available on a sharable basis.
GI Cloud Policy All government clouds to follow the standards and guidelines set by Govt. of India At the time of conceptualization of any new Mission Mode Project (MMP) or other government project the existing services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) of GI Cloud to be evaluated first for usage All new applications to be cloud ready Source : GI Cloud Strategic Direction Paper: http://deity.gov.in/content/gi-cloud-initiative-meghraj
Infrastructure (Current) Large National Data Centers (NDC) at 4 locations in India State Data Centers (SDC)s in 21 states of India are operational, running large e-governance applications Ten of these SDCs utilization is more than 50% Network - Existing network infrastructure includes SWAN, NKN and NOFN. National Information Infrastructure 2.0 (NII 2.0) Source : GI Cloud Adoption and Implementation Roadmap: http://deity.gov.in/content/gi-cloud-initiative-meghraj
National egov AppStore Setting up of a common platform to host and run applications (developed by government agencies or private players) at National Clouds Core and common applications that have high demand and are replicable across the central and state levels The egov AppStores will host both cloud enabled and non - cloud applications. Source : GI Cloud Adoption and Implementation Roadmap: http://deity.gov.in/content/gi-cloud-initiative-meghraj
Centres of Excellence for Cloud Computing (CoE) Envisaged to setup national CoE for Cloud computing which will be responsible for: Capability building Providing advisory services Spreading awareness within the Government about cloud and its benefits apart from international collaboration Coordinating research and development in this area. Source : GI Cloud Adoption and Implementation Roadmap: http://deity.gov.in/content/gi-cloud-initiative-meghraj
Unique Identification Authority Govt. has already collected biometric and demographic information of about 20 million people Enrollment to include 600 million people, and each person registered will have an estimated 5 MB of data. The data center that will hold the information will have 4 terabytes of data coming into it every day during peak enrollment periods Makes it about the biggest non-commercial datacenter in the world.
C-DAC Cloud initiatives Strong presence in Grid Computing GARUDA Grid Pan Indian Infrastructure HPC services Number of Cloud Initiatives Meghdoot Megha SuMegha Applications as services Scientific Applications as Services Disaster Recovery Healthcare applications Hospital Information Systems E-learning Machine Translation (Language Computing)
Meghdooth Open source based cloud stack providing Infrastructure as a service Web based Management of all cloud resources and services with Self servicing portal Fully automated functioning, Customizable Elasticity, Metering & Monitoring of services High availability to all services and resources Graphical Installation and configuration of complete cloud environment Provision to deploy user licensed software & deploy application directly Backup & Disaster recovery
Megha Virtual Clusters. Group of Virtual Resources having Cluster Software to run Parallel Applications. Two types of Clusters are supported: Torque MPI SaaS: SFM (Seasonal Forcast Model) FASTA (Protein Sequence Analysis) Scilab (Open Source Equivalent of Matlab) Sahana Disaster Management Gromacs GNU Octave OpenFoam
SuMegha: Scientific Cloud Provides on demand access to Compute, Storage resources and enables parallel environments. Services Supported : Infrastructure as a service(iaas) Storage as a service(staas) Software as a service(saas) Stakeholders Faculty and Students from engineering colleges Researchers
Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) Accessible using Self service portal Infrastructure as a Service : Provisioning of virtual machines(vm) & virtual clusters (VC) VM Specs Small, medium, large images Access to cloud storage(cloud vault) Access to additional elastic storage, through CIFS gateway VC Specs Upto 8 nodes in a cluster Each node: Small, medium, Large Type of cluster : MPI, HADOOP Access to cloud storage(cloud vault) Access to additional elastic storage, through CIFS gateway Secure Access :Secure ssh based access to the VMs & VCs through internet using secure key VM Size Details Size Detail Size No. Of Virtual CPU RAM (GB) Small 1 1 Medium 2 2 Large 4 4
Cloud Computing Innovation Council for India Goals A Roadmap for Cloud Computing in India Accelerate the adoption and deployment of Cloud Provide recommendations for: Standards adoption & deployment (Interoperability test bed etc.) Focused research and education initiatives Industry academia- government collaborations Regulatory, Legislation and Policy issues to promote innovation Many Working Groups egovernance, Industry specific, Big data System Architecture, Standards 16
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Indian IT business Indian businesses expected to spend 36% more on public cloud services in 2013-14 to total 443 million USD ($326 million in 2012) as per the Confederation of Indian Industry Report Indian IT-BPO industry is expected to cross the $225 billion mark by 2020 With an adoption of Social Media, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud Computing (SMAC)* Infosys Focus on Cloud Computing in Infosys 3.0 Hired over 2000 Cloud computing experts (2011) *Source : KPMG report - The SMAC Code Embracing New Technologies for future business
Mobile market Second largest mobile market globally 870 million mobile subscribers Third-largest smartphone market (by shipments) Mobile Internet Users in India 2009-2015 (in millions)
Indian Public Cloud Services Market By segments (2012)
Microsoft Microsoft announced to bring 25 million new Indian users over the next 12 months to its cloud services Office 365 available at Rs. 300 (US $5.50) per month Trade-in scheme for small enterprises to exchange their used personal computers for credits to use the company's cloud-based Azure platform. Microsoft has over 10,000 partners in 250 cities in close touch with businesses on the ground.
Google Google expects India to be a Cloud First IT Market Expects Cloud computing will be a $4.5 billion market by 2015 in India, rising from $400 million in 2011* Number of small businesses in India using Google Cloud services, has grown 70 % in 2013. Potential is huge 47 million small businesses, yet only 1 percent are online. *Source: Google MD Rajan Anandan s interview- http://gigaom.com/2011/12/16/india-will-be-a-cloud-first-it-market/
Case study: Evernote Users can take notes, clip webpages, snap photos using their mobile phones, create to-dos, and record audio. Evernote added 92,000 users per month in India successively for 3 months in 2013 Has more than a million users in India
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Main challenges Internet bandwidth & penetration limited The lowest in data centre risk ranking Cloud computing absorption is only at two per cent* Reasons Outdated thought process of businesses, which still look at their IT only for email, MS Office, financial accounting and HR support* Multi lingual computing is still a challenge Inadequate apps & Content Techno Legal issues No dedicated privacy law or data protection law in India *Source : Cloud computing absorption only 2% in India - A.S. Rajagopal on the Hindu Business Line May 2, 2014
Conclusion Cloud Awareness & willingness for adoption is increasing Government has recognized its importance Policy is laid out Initial efforts are encouraging National Cloud Initiative (Meghraj) Huge business potential Companies willing to expand base Challenges remain Infrastructure front Mindset of users Evolving standards 27
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