GI Cloud – MeghRaj
The National Informatics Centre provides cloud services under MeghRaj, offering virtual infrastructure for computing needs.
- The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is providing National Cloud services under the initiative MeghRaj. The services offered are as follows.
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): IaaS provides you basic virtual computer infrastructure resources like CPU, Memory, Disk Storage attached to blank VMs with allowing you to install OS, using ISOs, from scratch and customization.
- Platform as a Services (PaaS): PaaS provides pre-installed web and database servers so that you can publish and run web application without worrying about server setup. The servers are pre-configured ready with basic security hardening.
- Software as a Services (SaaS): This provides on demand software service. SaaS is a software delivery model where users are not responsible for supporting the application or any of the components.
- Storage as a Service (STaaS): STaaS provides need based storage solution. It provides excellent alternative to the traditional on-site and dedicated storage systems and reduces the complexities of deploying and managing multiple storage tiers.
- Hosting Environments: NIC Cloud Services provides 3 different types of environment for creating virtual machines i.e. Production, Staging and Development so that you keep your VM segregated and manage them properly based on the business need for both PaaS as well as IaaS service model.