The government ministries are going to store their information in the country’s first cloud data center ‘Meghna Cloud’. A workshop titled Data Security in Building Smart Bangladesh: New Journey of BDCCL and Meghna Cloud was held at the Bangladesh Computer Council Auditorium in Agargaon in the capital on Tuesday on the security of data stored in this data center.
More than 150 senior officials from concerned ministries and IT department along with BDCCL and Gennext Technologies Limited were present in the workshop.
Mohammad Mahdi-uz-Zaman, Team Leader and Technology Consultant of Amazon Cloud Solutions, presented the keynote. The event was presided over by the Additional Secretary of ICT Division Mohammad Naveed Shafiullah.
BCC Executive Director Ranjit Kumar, Gennext Technologies Chairman Touhidul Islam Chowdhury and Bangladesh Data Center Company Limited Managing Director Md. Ataur Rahman Khan were present as discussants among others.
Speakers in the event said that through Meghna Cloud, it will be possible to keep all the information of the country inside the country and it will be possible to ensure the security and integrity of information like international cloud services. Meghna Cloud has a special platform for working on artificial intelligence in Bangladesh which will greatly help the university students as well as researchers and scientists of the country in the development of big data technology in the country. As a result, it will now be possible to store the country’s information in the country under the Made in Bangladesh cloud created by a public-private joint venture. There will be no need to rely on foreign data storage facilities. Rather, the cost of foreign exchange in purchasing and using cloud technology will also decrease. It will also be easier to provide services to any organization including public and private.
Before this, in the last month of January, BDCCL under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division and Gennext joint venture to build a cloud data center through its own technology and manpower. As per the agreement, a new Research and Development (R&D) center is set up for Meghna Cloud.
