Designing Of Everything As A Service (Xaas) Cloud-Computing Frame Work For Ethiopian E- Vernment Services The Case Of Oromia Regional State Datacenters And Services

Abstract

Public sectors and government agencies delivering e-government services should look for better vehicles to decrease IT budgets, and at the same time provide agile IT services to organizations and citizens. The paradigm of cloud computing, which has been recently introduced and developed, offers means for public managers and government executives to address issues of budget constraints and agility of service. Literature review shows that cloud computing deployment models such as private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud and cloud computing services such as Infrastructure as a Service ,Platform as a Service and Software as a Service were being defined and implemented in the industry. If adopted and implemented in developing economy like Ethiopia, these cloud architecture and services will benefit in lowering ICT infrastructure costs and acquire new ways to manage Data Center resources, applications developed and resources to develop software’s to deliver e-government services to the public. In this research project, great efforts havebeen made to adopt everything as a service XaaS of three vendors. Cisco IaaS cloud architecture for Ethiopian government Data Center particularly in Oromia Regional State Datacenters is adopted. Software as a service of Intel vendors is also adopted for OromiaRegionalStatedatacenterapplication usage. Platform as a service is also adopted from Oracle cloud providers which enableRegionalsoftware development tools accessible simply from the vendors. The adopted architecture is based on the already existing government private cloud (Woredanet) and used to provide G2G (Government –to-Government) application with minimum cost for storage within government Data Centers. Using open source virtualization software’s XenServer 6.5 and Xencenter, we have tested the adopted infrastructure as a service is in area of small Local Area Network. The Software as a service and Platform as a service is also depends on the Infrastructure adopted and simple to experiment.We have analyzed the results of our testing that it can be scale up to WAN (Wide Area Network) like woredanet. If the Xencenter client application is installed on all of the woreda/district desktop computers that are connected to Oromia Regional Data Center, they can share resources of Data Center servers being at a remote location. We recommend, therefore, that researchers give attention to these areas of cloud services both in private and public cloud deployment models.The future research should also focus on the bandwidth conception of XaaS in case of Ethiopian e.government and the security of XaaS.