The initiative offers content storage, processing and distribution services
A datacenter of the Shared Data Centers (CDC) was opened on October 30 at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pernambuco (IFPE), in Recife (PE), an initiative of the Ministries of Science, Technology and Innovation and Education, coordinated by the National Education and Research Network (RNP), in partnership with teaching and research institutions in the North and Northeast regions, and with the Chinese company Huawei, which donated and installed the equipment.
The growing use in the market and the advantages presented by cloud technologies led MCTI and MEC to adopt them in the ICT infrastructure to support teaching and research in Brazil. One of the essential elements for offering cloud computing services in Brazil is the deployment and operation of data centers. With this objective, a partnership proposal with Huawei was born, during the visit of President Dilma Rousseff to China, in 2011. The data centers donated to Brazil will be operated by RNP.
The Shared Data Centers will allow to meet the demand for computational resources based on current cloud computing technologies in a staggered and growing manner, impacting on the collaborative activities of the academic community in Brazil, through a cloud architecture that begins to be made available in Brazil by RNP.
The objective is to offer services for the storage, processing and distribution of digital content, including software, data, images and videos for educational and research institutions in Brazil. In addition to Recife, a CDC datacenter was also implemented at the National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA), in Manaus (AM).
Shared Data Centers can be used in different areas: in health, allowing the storage of images of surgeries in Ultra High Definition 4K, produced by the University Telemedicine Network; in culture, for preservation and access to the collection of national audiovisual content, such as the films of Canal 100, about Brazilian football, maintained by Cinemateca Brasileira, in addition to several historical collections; in science, for monitoring the environment and biodiversity; and in the management and development of Technology and Innovation, for access to indicators, scientific journals platform and evaluation systems.
Among the benefits of the CDC program, we highlight the reduction of the fragility of several teaching and research institutions in hosting a large volume of information and vital applications such as scientific databases; the reduction of hardware, software and human resources costs for user institutions; increasing agility and flexibility in the use of computational capacity for data processing and storage; the increase in the capacity for digital preservation of information and shared data, through the replication of data in a safe environment in the national territory; and increasing the availability and security of information for researchers, teachers and students.
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