Objective

As a strategic move to get the benefit of Cloud technology to country ofOman, Ministry of Transport, Communication and Information Technology(MTCIT)initiatedthe project G-Cloud.

Enabling Government eservices is one of the MTCIT visions. The majorchallenge faced by MTCIT and the other government entities in achievingthe E-services goal is the IT infrastructure readiness and IT resourcescarcity. G-Cloud project is initiated by MTCIT to facilitate governmententitiesinachievingtheirE-servicesgoalbyprovidingsharedITinfrastructure.

ThemainobjectivesoftheGovernmentCloud(G-Cloud)are:

• To provideon demanddelivery ofcompute,storage andotherservicesovertheOmanGovernmentNetwork(OGN)tothegovernmententities inOman.
• ToprovideacentralizedITinfrastructureforgovernmententitiesandmove away from each government entity setting up expensive datacentrefacilities.
• To enable government entities to focus on core business and moveawayfrommanagingand operatingITInfrastructure.
• Toprovidesharedinfrastructuretogovernmententitiestohosttheirinfrastructure,platform,applications,services.
• Toensurethatcomputingresourcesandthesupportconnectivity infrastructure(MPLS/Internet)areadequatelyandoptimallyused.
• Toprovideallthreecloudservicedeliverymodels(IaaS,PaaS,SaaS).
• Toensuretheautomatic,dynamicprovisioningofresourcesto governmententities.

EngagementModel

1. Contact Sultanate of Oman MTCIT focal point for any additionaldetails.