A highly encrypted Cloud system of the Indian Army, similar to that of Google, has been inaugurated by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in line with the force’s plan to be a “digital army”. The cloud system will store personnel as well operational data. The ‘Army Cloud’ includes a central date centre, a near line data centre, both in Delhi and a disaster recovery site for a replication of its critical data along with virtualised servers and storage in an environmentally controlled complex.

This is similar to ‘Meghraj’, the Cloud system of National Informatics Centre, and will provide all information technology infrastructure, including servers for computing, storage, network security equipment centrally for automation of Indian Army.

The latest technology in the field has been incorporated in the implementation of the first-ever software defined date centre, wherein all the resources could be provisioned to different applications on the Cloud with the click of a button. Another ‘Digital Army Initiative’ which was also inaugurated was ‘Digi-Locker’, which provides 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 the army is similar to e-Locker of Digital India programme and has all the features like digital signatures and watermarking.

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