SingTel today announced that it has chosen HP as its strategic partner for the G-Cloud five-year tender award by the IDA. G-Cloud will be the first extensive private cloud for all government agencies in Singapore.
SingTel and HP will partner to build “Innovum” which will power the Singapore Government G-Cloud.
SingTel and HP will implement a private cloud computing infrastructure on a whole-of-government basis.
The SingTel-HP partnership is known as ‘Innovum’ – formed by the words ‘Innovation’ and ‘Continuum’ – and is aligned with SingTel-HP’s vision to drive continuous innovations for cloud services in the Government sector.
SingTel and HP collaborated on the launch of the first public cloud services in Singapore through the “Alatum” branding in 2008.
SingTel was also recently awarded the renewal of the “Alatum” Cloud Services Bulk Tender by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) to offer public cloud services to the government.
“Innovum will deliver an innovative and dedicated pool of shared IT resources to enable all government agencies to scale up their IT infrastructure with cloud services rapidly without having to make any significant hardware or software investments.
With a robust, secured, flexible IT infrastructure, they can respond internally and to the general public with greater agility, delivers improved e-services more efficiently and manage IT costs more effectively.”
– Bill Chang, SingTel’s Managing Director, Business Group, Group ICT.
“The Singapore Government is looking to cloud computing to provide government agencies with fast and secure access to critical IT resources required to respond to business and citizen demands.
Singapore’s G-Cloud will be built on HP’s CloudSystem, integrating hardware, software and services to provide shared, scalable and resilient cloud computing resources.”
– Jim Merritt, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Group, HP Asia Pacific & Japan.
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