E-Government cloud computing application from wait-and-see into combat

2011, the cloud computing industry has begun to take shape in the country, the success of the case is gradually rich, user understanding and recognition of the level of continuous improvement, research and development of cloud computing from the sidelines to welcome, more and more manufacturers began to intervene in the cloud market, in finance, energy, communications, manufacturing, medical Education and other business areas appear a large number of application solutions, users take the initiative to consider their own business into the cloud, cloud computing in the domestic success into the take-off phase. As the key application of cloud computing cloud is also unwilling to be outdone, as of the end of 2011, there have been Shanghai, Beijing, Qingdao and Xi ' An and other cities in e-government cloud applications in the field of active exploration, and achieved fruitful results. Cloud computing as the next generation of information technology, one of the core technology in the field of E-government gradually began to fall into the actual combat phase.

1. The innovative connotation of e-government cloud

E-Government Cloud is a platform technology framework based on cloud computing, which can optimize government management and service functions, improve government efficiency and service level, and essentially "build a unified government underlying IT infrastructure" at the technical level. The e-Government cloud can integrate the government's IT resources into the service for the residents, enterprises and departments to share the use, thus increasing the utilization of the administrative IT resources. From the perspective of application, e-government cloud is essentially a platform for government departments to build a basic infrastructure, to transfer the traditional administrative application to the platform, to share to various government departments, improve its service efficiency and service capabilities.

2, the current needs of e-government cloud

E-Government cloud generation is the perfect combination of e-government and cloud computing technology, and Sadie Information believes that the factors that drive e-government cloud construction generally include the following requirements:

(1) Improve the utilization of equipment resources, avoid duplication of construction, reduce the needs of professional maintenance personnel

In recent years, the construction of e-government system, government agencies at all levels to invest heavily in purchasing a large number of hardware equipment, the construction of a number of applications, but the general emergence of low utilization of equipment resources, repetitive construction, information systems, labor costs and huge energy consumption problems, improve equipment resource utilization, avoid duplication of construction Reducing maintenance costs is an urgent need of all levels of government agencies.

(2) Promoting the integration of information resources and promoting the need of government resources sharing

Because of the different stages of the development of government informatization, in the initial stage of the application of e-government, it is to develop or introduce one application system around a business. These decentralized development or introduction of the application system, not unified consideration of data standards or information sharing issues, which led to the formation of a single "Information Island." E-Government development to the present stage, through the integration of information resources to promote government resources sharing is the main task of the next phase.

(3) Improve service flexibility, improve service scalability, promote innovation and improve service efficiency demand

It is one of the main tasks of our Government to deepen the administrative system reform and promote the construction of service-oriented government. According to the needs of government function change, administrative examination and approval system reform and government affairs openness, according to the needs of the public, enterprise and society, we should choose suitable items for electronic and network realization, provide flexible and changeable government affairs service and promote service innovation to improve service efficiency and service level.

(4) Integration platform to improve security requirements

Information security is related to national security, social stability and the development of national culture, can effectively defuse the risk of information, the establishment of a sound national information security strategy, has become an important means of safeguarding the political and economic status of countries. Because of the mismatch of security consciousness, talent equipping and information construction, information security has become the main risk in the process of e-Government construction. It is one of the core needs of government departments to integrate E-government resources through cloud computing technology to improve platform security.

3.2011 Application Cases

2011, with the continuous emergence of cloud computing success stories in various industries, more and more government departments in the past years on the basis of information, from wait and see began to actively explore cloud computing in the field of E-government innovative applications, briefly listed as follows:

March 2011, Shanghai Zhabei City North Hospital Health cloud system in six months of testing and application of the relocation, formally put into trial operation, the country's first healthy cloud landed in Shanghai.

May 2011, Qingdao officially announced by the city e-government office to lead the construction of the National Party and government system of the first e-government private cloud computing platform, in order to integrate the Qingdao municipal organs of the Department of Resources, reduce information systems construction and maintenance costs, improve investment performance, improve the use of information resources efficiency.

July 28, 2011, "Xiangyun Project" Basic Protection Project "Beijing Xiangyun project in the background" formally unveiled the Veil, the first to become the "Xiangyun project" the Cloud backstage. The platform includes cloud data center construction, cloud resource management platform construction, cloud data hosting platform construction, cloud backstage operation service support platform construction, cloud backstage management system construction and so on, focusing on providing "wisdom brain" for "wisdom Beijing".

July 2011, Xi ' an high-tech zone formally proposed and began to implement the "double Cloud strategy", the strategy from "High-tech zone" and "Changan Cloud" composition. "High-tech cloud" is mainly dedicated to integrating the internal resources of Xi ' an high-tech zone to build the social affairs and Enterprise operation Platform based on cloud computing technology, "Changan Cloud" will co-ordinate the science and technology resources, build a public service platform based on cloud computing technology, covering the social life fields of Government public service, communication, tourism, transportation, medical treatment and so on. At the same time, Xi ' an software park has built the first cloud computing center in the northwest region, which will provide all kinds of services based on cloud computing IaaS, help enterprises to reduce costs, improve profits, and promote the rapid development of software and service outsourcing industry in XI ' an.

4. The realization value of e-Government cloud

Cloud computing has the characteristics of strong computing power, low cost and high security, and it is of great value and significance in the field of e-government. According to the experience of local construction, E-government Cloud application value mainly includes the following aspects:

(1) The construction of e-government cloud will greatly save the construction cost and reduce the national financial expenditure

Generally speaking, the construction of electronic government cloud computing platform will greatly reduce the national financial expenditure. The expenditure of the government procurement of e-government in all departments and regions of the country is unified to build the cloud computing platform, the cost will be much less than the decentralized construction. Based on the experience of both Google and Microsoft, cloud computing costs 30 times times less to compute the data center. In addition to its scale efficiency in computing, cloud computing uses a number of new technologies, such as virtualization and natural refrigeration, to reduce operating costs. For example, virtualization technology can improve the efficiency of hardware use, dynamic adjustment of resources, save hardware input.

(2) The Cloud Computing Center with IaaS as its core will provide a powerful backstage guarantee for the operation of government affairs portal, the development of government information resources and the application of government affairs system.

At present, the rapid growth of the number of users, the content of the increasingly multimedia, government information disclosure contains a large number of pictures and video information, government sites need to deal with massive data, need to use IaaS as the core of the cloud Computing Center as an effective support. At the same time, with the development and utilization of government information resources, large data centralization and information exchange require high computational ability. The cost of the construction and operation of the traditional government data center is rising, so we need to use the cloud computing model to improve the efficiency of the data center and reduce the construction cost of the government data center.

(3) The cloud service platform with PAAs as its core will help the construction of "service-oriented government system"

The establishment of e-government system can make government workers know the most concerned problems in time, make the policy and laws drawn by government departments more clear, improve the efficiency of government, establish a clean and efficient image of government, close the distance between government and people, and maintain social stability. In order to realize these goals, we need to learn from the overseas mature e-Government cloud service model, set up "one-stop" and "one-net" cloud service platform, improve the administrative service efficiency and management level, speed up the transformation of government function and promote the construction of service-oriented government.

(4) The Exchange platform based on cloud computing will realize the coordination of information linkage and governmental affairs work between government departments

The feature of "information integration and resource sharing" in cloud computing mode will play a great role in e-Government information exchange platform, through the application of Exchange platform, establish "Information Bridge" between government departments, government departments and social service departments, and connect each unit's e-government system to the cloud platform. Through the internal information drive engine of the cloud platform, we can realize the coordination of information integration, exchange, sharing and government affairs work among different e-government systems, and greatly improve the overall working efficiency of governmental organs at all levels.

5. Development and prospect of e-Government cloud

According to the March 2011 plan of the 12th five years of national economy and social development, the future development focus of e-government is to promote the interconnection, information sharing and business synergy of important government affairs information systems, and the other is to strengthen the integration of information resources, standardize collection and release, and strengthen the socialized development and utilization. This shows that the government departments at all levels are fully aware of the current situation of low level of e-government information resources development and business synergy difficulties, at the ministry level, information resources at all levels need to be effectively integrated; At the local level, there is an urgent need for information sharing and business synergy between departments.

In order to better promote information sharing and business synergy, it is advisable to adopt cloud computing technology. 2012, there will be more and more ministries and local governments to promote e-government cloud construction, integration of infrastructure, data resources, application systems and management mechanisms, to form a blossoming cloud of the beautiful situation.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)