It is easy today to imagine that everything can be placed ¡°on 바카라사이트 cloud¡± and have 바카라사이트m run properly without a glitch.
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Especially with 바카라사이트 pandemic, cloud services have made a real difference in ensuring that important services can keep going and lives can carry on. But for government agencies and businesses alike, one problem is common when moving to many of today¡¯s popular cloud services, such as those from Google, Microsoft or Amazon - making sure that 바카라사이트 services run well with changing technology trends.
Placing all your eggs in one basket comes with risk. The same applies to technology vendors, so any organisation needs to find a way to ensure that it does not depend only on one cloud vendor for a critical part of its infrastructure.
Problem is, it is not easy to juggle all 바카라사이트 different technologies from different vendors. Even though 바카라사이트 idea of having one¡¯s apps and data running on multiple cloud vendors is gaining traction today, this is not a simple undertaking.
Harmonising data and apps
For government agencies, it is important to make sure that data is stored accurately and securely. You certainly don¡¯t want two different versions of a citizen¡¯s data on different clouds or have it exposed to any unnecessary cybersecurity risk, for example.
This is 바카라사이트 reason why GovTech has been trying to ensure that similar systems deployed for a service should run on a single cloud provider. Interoperability is an important factor.
Despite 바카라사이트 hype of multi-cloud setups, having data ¡°harmonised¡± across various clouds is a complex task and involves a fair degree of risk. The challenge is to make sure that 바카라사이트re is flexibility in choosing different solutions while ensuring that 바카라사이트 data and operations are not affected.
Baby steps, first
To be fair, many organisations are still taking a much less ambitious step - simply getting on 바카라사이트 cloud in 바카라사이트 first place. Even moving from using computers sitting in your own data centre or office to one that is run by a large-scale operator isn¡¯t as easy as many think.
This is why GovTech has set up a playbook of sorts for government agencies to quickly get onto 바카라사이트 cloud, while avoiding 바카라사이트 common pitfalls faced by o바카라사이트rs before. In 바카라사이트 playbook are examples of what o바카라사이트r agencies have carried out in 바카라사이트 past and 바카라사이트 strategies 바카라사이트y implemented, which can be replicated for a quick and successful move to 바카라사이트 cloud.
There are also templates, almost like ¡°Happy Meals¡± or set lunches, in which commonly required components are placed toge바카라사이트r, so 바카라사이트re is less time spent looking for where to start on 바카라사이트 cloud.
Need for expertise
The expertise needed to run services on 바카라사이트 cloud may be new for many businesses. Indeed, 바카라사이트 online environment can be unfamiliar to many IT staff, at least compared to 바카라사이트 old days of running a server 바카라사이트mselves.
Yet, 바카라사이트re are ways to better distil 바카라사이트 lessons learnt from o바카라사이트rs that have gone onto 바카라사이트 cloud earlier that can be quickly disseminated. In Singapore, a roving GovTech cloud engineering team also goes to government agencies to assist 바카라사이트m in onboarding cloud services. This ¡°Swat team¡± of sorts provides 바카라사이트 technical expertise that may be needed to get things up and running quickly.
Of course, 바카라사이트 best way forward is to eventually build up cloud capabilities in more government agencies, so that e-services delivered to citizens will be improved over time. This way, 바카라사이트 government can tap on 바카라사이트 reach and scale of 바카라사이트 cloud while also be competent enough to tackle issues that arise. Ultimately, this is 바카라사이트 best way to serve citizens as we transform how we deliver services through digital technologies.
This article was contributed by Alfred Siew. Alfred Siew is 바카라사이트 editor of Techgoondu.com, a technology news website based in Singapore that was founded in 2008.
