With cloud computing becoming a universal phenomenon and becoming more acceptable, the US-based technology solutions provider Unisys Corporation is seeking to provide its cloud-based solutions to the shipping and aviation sectors, and towards homeland security. Presently, the company is looking at the government sector, said Kumar Prabhas, managing director, Unisys India. This, even as it’s in talks with an aviation company.
Making use of the cloud approaches like virtualisation and automation is something many governments are said to be looking at to cut costs and make IT infrastructure more scalable and modular. The increasing use of the cloud in public sector, financial services, transport and communications, and internal security will cut costs for these sectors and “these approaches can reduce costs and make IT infrastructure scalable and modular,” said a senior company official. Cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage resources without requiring cloud users to know the location and other details of the computing infrastructure. Unisys Corporation was reported as being in talks with the Shipping Ministry to provide hi-tech security solutions to domestic ports to avoid traffic congestion, piracy threats and other mid-sea crisis.
“Unisys is in talks with the top officials in the Shipping Ministry, all private and state-owned ports as well. The company has drawn a port-security roadmap for threats and requirement in India,” an official was reported as having said. Earlier, Unisys had announced an updated version of its secure private cloud offering that it said was better management tools that will cut costs for the IT department. Version 2.1 introduces a new dashboard, enabling IT administrators to manage its resources from a single pane of glass.
This real-time hub, according to the company, will allow for instant responses to failing equipment, full utilisation of infrastructure and help keep up any service level agreements (SLAs).