pune the pune municipal corporation would soon have its own data cloud the standing committee of the civic body has given a goahead for inviting tenders from private firms for managing civic data and the cloud the administration stressed providing services through egovernance and mgovernance platforms would be easier with this facility the corporation would spend around rs17 lakh per month on this initiativethe proposal was discussed with the members and was approved a contract for three years will be signed with the selected firm balasheb bodke chief of the committee told reportersa pune municipal corporation pmc official said the current setup is mostly based on local servers managing and maintaining them would be difficult in the future the existing servers are operating at their maximum capacity the administration would have to buy more servers if more online facilities were to be promoted he addedprojects like digital lockers esignature mobile apps and geographical information system gis have to be implemented on a large scale and the administration will have to use this technology if the services have to be provided uninterruptedly the cloud technology is a must stated the proposalthe proposal stated that the administration could avoid the expenses on buying servers and their maintenance if it opted for cloud computing even if the number of people using civic services increased the administration would not have to add manpower for those worksaccording to nasscom cloud computing can be defined as dynamically scalable virtualized information services delivered ondemand over the network in a payperuse model cloud morphs clientserver environment on to internet it enables businesses to rent compute resources and pay per use it also allows consumers and employees to engage work or transact with businesses via any connected device the cloud computing has also been identified as one of the thrust areas in the proposed national it policy