National IT Systems
The Government Integrated Data Center (GIDC), commemorating its 10th anniversary this year, is preparing for the next 10 years by adopting advanced information technology including big data and cloud computing. It is planning to make use of a number of domestically-developed solutions so as to contribute to the development of the domestic IT industry.
The GIDC announced on Feb. 1 that it is renovating its security systems based on big data and incorporating cloud computing into 143 e-government systems by the end of this year. Established in 2005, the GIDC is in charge of the management of 1,312 units of equipment at 44 organizations as the center of Korea’s e-government system.
Its big data log analysis system nSIMS, developed after 18 months of efforts, monitors 100,000 dangerous IPs in countries like North Korea, Romania, and the U.S. in real time while detecting signs of system failure. Its main engine is the eyeCloudSIM, supplied by Korean solution developer SecuLayer. “The nSIMS is capable of detecting 99 percent of breach attempts in advance and blocking attacks within 10 minutes,” the GIDC explained.
The government’s G-Cloud Project is expected to pick up speed, too. A total of 260 e-government systems have adopted cloud computing by last year, and the number is scheduled to be increased to 403 by the end of 2015 and to 740, which is equivalent to 60 percent of the entire systems, by 2017. The government is expecting that its system running costs will be saved by about 40 percent then.
The GIDC is using open-source software and domestically-developed x86 servers in the G-Cloud Project. More than 1,000 x86 servers have been supplied by Korean companies and the additional purchase for this year is estimated at 200.