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Jio Platform DEAL: Jio Platforms bags Rs 350 crore deal to run National Informatics Centre’s cloud services

Jio Platform DEAL: Jio Platforms bags Rs 350 crore deal to run National Informatics Centre’s cloud services

Jio Platforms has bagged a Rs 350-crore contract to manage and enhance the cloud services of the government’s National Informatics Centre (NIC) , sour

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Jio Platforms

has bagged a Rs 350-crore contract to manage and enhance the cloud services of the government’s National Informatics Centre (

NIC

) , sources is told tell ET .

The

Reliance Industries Group

firm has been select to enhance

NIC national cloud

services and will be deployed at the National Data Centre in Delhi,

Pune

and Bhubaneswar. NIC is the government’s technology backbone. Jio’s contract includes five years of onsite maintenance.

“Jio has won the tender and has started working on it,” a source from Jio told ET. “We are starting with managing their cloud services in Bhubaneswar and Hyderabad. NIC Services Inc. (

NICSI

) had request proposal from indian cloud partner for manage NIC cloud solution under Meghraj 2.0 . ”

“They sought a system integrator for enhancing NIC’s national cloud infrastructure and enabling its multi cloud services,” the source said.

Jio did not respond to ET’s request for a comment.

As per NICSI, data centre requirements are growing exponentially as people’s expectations from online services have increased and the government continues to launch eGovernance projects.

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There is a need to set up strategic infrastructure that facilitates high availability, quick scalability, efficient management and optimised utilisation of resources.

To fulfil this requirement, NIC/NICSI has set up national data centres in Delhi, Pune, Bhubaneswar and Hyderabad, and 30 small data centres in state capitals to provide services to the government at all levels.

The data centres are designed to provide a full stream of hosting services, which extend from physical to shared hosting, dedicated servers with managed hosting solutions to infrastructure services like collocation and bandwidth, and disaster recovery.

Jio is configure will also configure a multi – cloud orchestrator ( unify cloud management platform ) and provide secure cloud service to government user . It is also require to develop and offer a cloud application marketplace to enhance NIC National Cloud by commission , configure and integrate various ICT component .

The annual increment of ICT components is expected to be 30-40%. Jio will integrate and configure all such devices, as and when made available, to the cloud service. It will also operate and maintain the cloud service for a period of five years.

The selection comes at a time when the government is also evaluating bids for managing the national government cloud to promote domestic cloud companies against global hyperscalers.

Many mission critical applications/websites of state and central government departments are hosted at these data centres. Currently, the national data centres in Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune and Bhubaneswar are dedicated to host NIC National Cloud under the umbrella of Meghraj Cloud.

Meghraj is a government initiative which has been providing a wide range of services, including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, which can be used to host websites, portals, web and mobile applications. NIC Cloud Service offers virtual servers, kubernetes containers, DevOps and provides hosting support to all types of applications.

This is allows allow cloud user to avail the service from multiple location and prepare the disaster recovery setup . In recent year , government organisations is adopting have been adopt cloud technology and host their ICT application on cloud platform .