Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob yesterday launched MyGovCloud, a cloud computing service which serves as an upgrade to the Public Sector Data Centre (PDSA). Moving forward, the new service will be used by all government agencies.
During a ceremony in Putrajaya yesterday, a contract agreement was signed between the government, Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and Managed Service Provider (MSP), a local Cloud Bumiputera service provider appointed by CSP. The federal agency responsible for the public sector’s digitalisation agenda, Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) represented Malaysia in the agreement.
As reported by national news agency Bernama, the agreement involves four CSP companies; Amazon Web Services Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Google Cloud Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Microsoft (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and Telekom Malaysia Bhd. As for the MSP companies, it involves Cloud Connect Sdn Bhd, Enfrasys Solutions Sdn Bhd, Radmik Solutions Sdn Bhd and Awantec System Sdn Bhd.
The Prime Minister elaborated that MyGovCloud will operate in a hybrid manner, combining the services of Private Cloud at PDSA and Public Cloud of the CSP appointed by the government. He also stressed that the initiative is in line with the Fifth Initiative under Thrust 1 of the Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint (MyDigital) which targets 80 percent cloud computing storage usage for the public sector in 2022.
Furthermore, Ismail also lauded the initiative, saying that it would generate potential investments in Malaysia worth up to RM15 billion by 2025. MyGovCloud is aimed at driving the public sector digital transformation in a holistic manner to spur the growth of the digital economy and digitalisation agenda throughout the country.
It is hoped that the initiative can produce more experts in cloud computing through continuous training and certification programmes provided by CSP and MSP. Besides that, the implementation will also enable public sector agencies to enjoy better, speedier, more efficient and targeted cloud services.
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