DEFENCE MINISTER LAUNCHES ARMY CLOUD DATA CENTRE & DIGI-LOCKER FOR THE INDIAN ARMY
The Defence
Minister Manohar Parrikar inaugurated the Central Data Centre, Army Cloud
and Digi-Locker for the Indian Army here today. Complimenting the Army for initiating such steps as a part of the
Digital Army programme he said this can be of great use for faster documentation,
information and speedy delivery of services. The Minister emphasized the need to educate and sensitize every
person in the force on the advantages of such services and technology
upgradation. However, he also said that maintaining, checking and securing the
system is equally important.
The facility under the Army Cloud includes a Central
Data Centre, a Near Line Data Centre, both in Delhi and a Disaster Recovery
site for replication of its critical data along with virtualised servers and storage in an environmentally
controlled complex. This is similar to the Meghraj; the Cloud of National Informatics Centre (NIC) and will provide all Information Technology Infrastructure
including servers for computing, storage, network and network security
equipment centrally, for automation of Indian Army.
The latest
technologies in the field have been incorporated in the implementation of the
first ever Software Defined Data Centre, wherein all the resources could be
provisioned to different applications on the Cloud, on click of a button. It has
already started providing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to the pan Army users as the first Cloud service and will soon
provide Software as a Service (SaaS).
With the
launching of Digi-Locker, it will provide a secure and exclusive data storage space
to all the units and formation headquarters of the Army over its dedicated data
network. The Digi-Locker of Indian Army is similar to e-Locker of Digital India program and has all the advanced features
like digital signatures and watermarking.
This is an
important step towards implementation of cyber security as it precludes
carriage of soft copies of data on CDs/DVDs and
removable media. Users can store, share and access the data from anywhere any time on the Army Data Network. The infrastructure and platforms being
made available for automation and digitisation will catalyse the pace of
digitisation in all branches of Army and is a landmark towards transforming
Indian Army from platform centric to a Network Centric Force, which would
leverage the technology as a force multiplier.
In keeping with the national vision of Digital
India, the Indian Army has launched a program for Digital Army with nine
pillars for digitisation. Three of the nine
pillars of this umbrella program, namely Broadband highways, Universal access
to telephones and Army Data Network stress upon Information Technology
Infrastructure development. Another three
namely e-Governance, Electronic delivery of services and Online information for all, focus on delivery of services to
all units and formation headquarters.
For any modern
army, the Network Centric Operations are essential for meeting enhanced
challenges of asymmetry, lethality, fluidity and non-linearity in the present day battlefield. The Indian
Army is addressing this key area comprehensively.
The Chief of the Army Staff General Dalbir
Singh, Vice Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen MMS Rai, Signal Officer-in-Chief & Colonel Commandant Corps of Signals Lt Gen Nitin Kohli
and all senior officers of Army Headquarters were present on the occasion.
DEFENCE MINISTER LAUNCHES ARMY CLOUD DATA CENTRE & DIGI-LOCKER FOR THE INDIAN ARMY
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