Date:24/08/12
The ICT Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka launched the Lanka Government Cloud facility early this week, in a bid to create an enabling environment for the Government to leverage ICT to drive innovation and better services for the people. According to ICTA CEO Reshan Dewapura, the LGC is one of the agency’s key projects that seeks to deliver eServices to the public with the kind of efficiency never before seen or experienced in the country.
The LGC facility is securely located in the hub of Lanka Government Network which has been set up in a rented space of a Sri Lankan data centre. At present the memory capacity of the LGC is at 2660 Gigabytes with a storage capacity of 40 Terabytes. According to ICTA, this capacity can be gradually increased to meet the entire server computing requirements of the Sri Lankan Government.
"The G-Cloud facility will bring comfort in people’s lives," says Dewapura. "Being able to have the facilities of servers from a central location that the Lanka Government Cloud provides for is indeed a landmark change. " The LGC is administered and maintained by Lanka Information Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. (LGII), a subsidiary of ICTA.
Sri Lanka launches G-Cloud facility
The ICT Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka launched the Lanka Government Cloud facility early this week, in a bid to create an enabling environment for the Government to leverage ICT to drive innovation and better services for the people. According to ICTA CEO Reshan Dewapura, the LGC is one of the agency’s key projects that seeks to deliver eServices to the public with the kind of efficiency never before seen or experienced in the country.The LGC facility is securely located in the hub of Lanka Government Network which has been set up in a rented space of a Sri Lankan data centre. At present the memory capacity of the LGC is at 2660 Gigabytes with a storage capacity of 40 Terabytes. According to ICTA, this capacity can be gradually increased to meet the entire server computing requirements of the Sri Lankan Government.
"The G-Cloud facility will bring comfort in people’s lives," says Dewapura. "Being able to have the facilities of servers from a central location that the Lanka Government Cloud provides for is indeed a landmark change. " The LGC is administered and maintained by Lanka Information Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. (LGII), a subsidiary of ICTA.
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