CLOUD COMPUTING IN THE ICT OF FINNISH PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Ylätupa, Tuomas (2011)
Ylätupa, Tuomas
Saimaan ammattikorkeakoulu
2011
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2011093013406
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2011093013406
Tiivistelmä
Cloud computing offers unlimited ICT capacity and applications as an online service. The provider of the service is responsible for the resources: hardware, maintenance, updating, security, and other essential resources. All that is left for the customer is to find the right services that help the customer to improve its performance. By doing so, the customer is able to focus on its core businesses.
Buying huge facilities for governmental ICT is not necessary or beneficial today when governments can buy all the ICT services they need according to the momentary demand. Cloud computing offers the same benefits for the public sector as for the businesses in the private sector. Therefore Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and other countries are taking cloud computing as part of their ICT architecture. It can help public administrations and other public organs to cut costs and gain other benefits as well. Therefore governments examine cloud computing as a future way of their ICT architecture.
Cloud computing markets are relatively new and they are still developing. There are numerous advantages and benefits that can be gained through cloud computing, but there are also limitations and challenges towards it. Therefore cloud computing has to be examined and tested to see its effects and to develop the technology and practices even further and take them into everyday use.
In Finland the public administration has only started to plan an exploratory research of centralized usage of ICT. This could create an opportunity for cloud computing if the public administration sees cloud computing as an opportunity, not as a momentary trend.
The target of this thesis is to familiarize the reader with the concept of cloud computing, introduce the cloud computing models of the example countries, introduce the current state of cloud computing in the public administration in Finland and unfold the plans that the Finnish public administration has for cloud computing.
Buying huge facilities for governmental ICT is not necessary or beneficial today when governments can buy all the ICT services they need according to the momentary demand. Cloud computing offers the same benefits for the public sector as for the businesses in the private sector. Therefore Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and other countries are taking cloud computing as part of their ICT architecture. It can help public administrations and other public organs to cut costs and gain other benefits as well. Therefore governments examine cloud computing as a future way of their ICT architecture.
Cloud computing markets are relatively new and they are still developing. There are numerous advantages and benefits that can be gained through cloud computing, but there are also limitations and challenges towards it. Therefore cloud computing has to be examined and tested to see its effects and to develop the technology and practices even further and take them into everyday use.
In Finland the public administration has only started to plan an exploratory research of centralized usage of ICT. This could create an opportunity for cloud computing if the public administration sees cloud computing as an opportunity, not as a momentary trend.
The target of this thesis is to familiarize the reader with the concept of cloud computing, introduce the cloud computing models of the example countries, introduce the current state of cloud computing in the public administration in Finland and unfold the plans that the Finnish public administration has for cloud computing.