A key portion of our Illinois FIRST IT strategy is moving the digital workload to the cloud. The state of Illinois cloud implementation is threefold: hybrid cloud, public cloud and private cloud.
The public and private cloud services are provided by top-tier global technology providers, while the hybrid cloud offering will be an internal solution strategy that takes our 25,000 square-foot data center and co-location facilities and moves them into a cloud solution destination for the state. This approach balances the key demands of software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions in the right secure cloud environment at the right time. It also enables Disaster Recovery-as-a-service for use by government entities across the state.
Several state agencies have already had proven early successes with specific applications running in the cloud. This spans across our transportation sector, economic development, financial and professional regulations, and corrections businesses. Notably with specific successes:
- Public: Offender 360 leapfrogging from mainframe to Microsoft Azure
- Private: SAP hosted on NS2 cloud
- Hybrid: Utilizing expanded collaboration and workforce productivity tools with Office365
The early successes also provide the foundation for rapid expansion of cloud services. Today the state has about 3 percent of our computing workload in the cloud. With a cohesive approach to cloud adoption, the state of Illinois will increase that percentage to an estimated 28 percent in 2017, and 70 percent by 2019.
Help us support our journey as we embrace the cloud across the state of Illinois technology enablement efforts.
