Tasmania seeks input on govt cloud project
The Tasmanian government has launched a pre-tender consultation covering its plan to move whole-of-government data to the Tasmanian Cloud.
The government has a policy of adopting data sovereignty arrangements involving keeping critical public sector data within the island.
Tasmanian Cloud will be designed to allow educators, judges and lawyers, child services agencies, police and other public sector officials to access shared resources remotely.
Moving to a cloud arrangement is expected to improve data security and reduce the cost of data traffic over the Bass Strait link.
A pre-tender consultation paper has been released to interested ICT firms. The government will solicit input from the market to help determine the parameters of the project.
“We want ICT firms to look at this paper and tell us what we can accomplish because it’s only by working with the ICT sector that we will achieve our vision for the Tasmanian Cloud,” said Michael Ferguson, Tasmanian Minister of Information Technology and Innovation.
“The Liberal Government is working to grow our ICT sector and build a connected and empowered Tasmanian economy to drive economic growth and create jobs.”
He said the government is still in discussion with SubPartners about the proposed APX Central project, a submarine cable that would connect Tasmania to Singapore, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and the USA.
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