Bangladesh Data Center Company Limited (BDCL), the Bangladesh government-owned data storage and disaster recovery services provider, has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to provide sovereign-hosted cloud services to the Bangladesh government.
The objective of the initiative, led by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division, is to accelerate the country towards its goal of becoming a “knowledge-based economy” by extending the use of secure, sovereign hosted, enterprise-class cloud and digital technologies to the different government agencies and ministries.
The government’s “Digital Bangladesh” vision aims to develop technology to help the country attain its sustainable development goals, create employment for all, and move Bangladesh towards a developed economy. To achieve this, the government has recognized the need to increase the availability of sovereign-hosted cloud services to support the various critical systems driving government, particularly for secure workloads in National Security, e-governance, e-filing, health, human services, and other departments, and government agencies dealing with sensitive data of the country.
The Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer will enable BDCCL to carry out its entire IT portfolio on cloud infrastructure and have physical control of infrastructure and data, ensuring that Government users meet the most demanding data sovereignty requirements. Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer also provides significant cost benefits by allowing users to quickly bring new applications and services online efficiently and cost-effectively compared to an on-premises platform.
About the importance of digital technology , State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, said, “The adoption of digital technologies is of crucial importance for Bangladesh’s advancement. The deployment of a focused, locally delivered and highly secure ‘government cloud’ will accelerate our progress towards Digital Bangladesh, however nothing like this currently exists. With the next-generation, enterprise-class cloud powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, we can accelerate the modernization of key government activities such as e-voting, e-health service, e-filing, virtual courts, e-judiciary. We can provide significant cost benefits to the government bodies who will be able to secure new applications and services online quickly, cost-effectively.”
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer will be hosted within ‘The Tier IV National Data Center’, the world’s 7th largest located at the Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City in Kaliakair. It will provide BDCCL with access to all of Oracle’s cloud services, including bare metal compute, VMs and GPUs, Oracle Autonomous Database, and Oracle Exadata Cloud Service; container-based services like Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes; and analytics services. The cloud region also provides strong isolation of data, including all customer content and key content metadata, which reside within the government’s data centers and provide the highest levels of security.
