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NEWS IN BRIEF

Sita rolls out cloud

computing infrastructure

The State Information Technology for exclusive access by government management of cloud resources and
Agency’s (Sita) vision was to establish departments – owned by the government workload, irrespective of their location in
a government private cloud, defined as and operated and managed by Sita. the ecosystem.
“an ecosystem of different clouds”
To realise this goal, the agency embarked Sita has now implemented the next
It’s no surprise that cloud computing, on infrastructure modernisation to key phase in creating this ecosystem,
which brings a lot of benefits, is re-engineer its digital environment building its biggest cloud infrastructure
transforming the industry’s approach into modern state-of-the-art facilities, to date, in partnership with Huawei, IBM
to IT. Cloud computing is widely including the introduction of cloud and Gijima.
acknowledged as the key to driving capability. The official launch of this
the journey through the fourth industrial initiative was at the end of November This is being done on the back of the
revolution, marked by the profound 2018 success that Sita has achieved in this
integration of technology into society. area of work, and in line with South
The cloud enables capabilities in Sita’s cloud computing programme Africa’s efforts towards socio-economic
artificial intelligence, big data analytics, created a multi-year modernisation road- transformation.
the internet of things and robotics – map, and gave rise to the government
all with numerous benefits for public private cloud ecosystem, a connected The Department of Higher Education
service. Sita’s vision was to establish and fully orchestrated cloud computing and Training (DHET) was Sita’s first
a government private cloud, defined platform. Also known as the cloud cloud client that accepted a proposal
as “an ecosystem of different clouds”, foundation infrastructure, it allows the for infrastructure as a service and

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