The Information Technology Department has requested the data center and cloud service provider companies across the country to be listed under the government. The department has recently issued a notification asking the companies to be compulsorily listed in the department with the necessary documents.
In the Data Center and Cloud Services (Operation and Management) Directive, 2081, data center and cloud service providers must be registered with the department before providing services. It is mentioned that such companies in operation should also be registered with the department before the start of the directive. Accordingly, the department has requested applications to be listed from data centers and cloud service providers. According to section 3 of the
guide, an organization that wants to operate a data center or cloud service must apply to the department with more than a dozen documents such as company/firm registration certificate, fire safety assurance, organization's security and privacy policy, business continuity plan document, data center location map, data center tier details, and IP bridge details. Currently operating data centers and cloud service providers should be registered with the department within 6 months, according to the guidelines. The directive makes it clear that service providers who want to operate both
data center and cloud services should be listed separately. "Listed data centers and cloud service providers have to update the details through the means prescribed by the department by the end of January every year," it is said in section 4. The guidelines state that data centers will be removed from the list if they are found to be misusing the data stored in the data center and Cloudon or if they do not comply with the specified conditions. The
department has requested that the format of the application be as mentioned in its website or directory .
