Government Data Centre and Capacity Service Strategy, 15/2014
The strategy’s vision: Central government agencies and institutions have access to cost-effective, secure, ecological and architecture-based data centre and capacity services that cover the needs of service users.
To implement the vision, the strategy specifies five strategic policy outlines:
1. The central government will itself produce data centre and capacity services that need high contingency requirement levels and/or high information security protection levels. Servers managed by the central government itself will be centralised cost-effectively in a significantly smaller number of data centres than at present.
2. The central government will establish a competitive tendering process for data centre and capacity services with lower contingency requirement levels and lower information security protection levels.
3. Central government data centres and data centres of suppliers that contain significant central government systems will form a data centre network, managed as a single entity, in which the dynamic management of capacity, service continuity, telecommunications and security have been optimised.
4. In both self-generated services and services purchased through competitive tendering, the goal will be to move from separate and application-specific servers towards the use of shared capacity, namely cloud
services. In this way, unit costs will be reduced, development projects accelerated, scalability facilitated and accessibility improved.
5. The Government ICT Centre Valtori will offer its customers the services of the above items 1–4 as a standardised service. Customers will be able to acquire these services from Valtori easily and without competitive tendering.
The strategy is part of the Public Sector ICT Utilisation Strategy 2012–2020.
