Odisha plans disaster-immune data centre, initiates talks with NIC, BSNL

Two months after the state’s coast was pounded by Cyclone Fani, the Odisha government has set the ball rolling for a disaster resilient data centre.

The state’s data centre had suffered consequential damage after the tropical cyclone damaged power infrastructure.

“Our data centre has suffered multiple fibre disruptions due to the cyclone. We have done a detailed study on the disaster resilient, cloud-based data centre. It has multiple power back-ups. Also, the data centre will be loaded with cyber security features and we will have a standard operating procedure (SOP) for easy hosting of government applications. It will offer both scalability and inter-operability”, said C J Venugopal, principal secretary (electronics & IT), Odisha government.