National Data Centre

Capacity to be tripled by month end

To cope with the increasing demand of data in the country, the capacity of the National Data Centre located at the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) premises in Agargaon will be tripled by the end of August, officials with the BCC told The Independent. The current capacity of the national data centre is 750 terabyte and by the month end, another two petabyte (one petabyte=1024 terabyte) of data capacity will be added. Talking to The Independent, Tareq Barkatullah, Director, National Data Centre, said that the storage capacity is being increased under a Tk. 560 crore World Bank-funded project called Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT). When the National Data Centre was inaugurated back in 2010, its storage capacity was 30 terabyte. It took nearly two years to increase that capacity. In 2014, its capacity was increased up to 750 terabyte. In the next 7-8 months, the storage capacity is will be almost used up, said the director of the data centre.
He said that the increase of data flow from different government entities has increased manifolds in the past couple of years. Starting with the tax payer information to the files from different ministries and regulatory bodies, the volume of data being stored in the data centre is huge.
 “There is a huge inflow of data from the government’s land digitization and birth registration process. So the current capacity of the centre couldn’t keep pace with the data inflow,” he said.

National Data Centre

Capacity to be tripled by month end

To cope with the increasing demand of data in the country, the capacity of the National Data Centre located at the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) premises in Agargaon will be tripled by the end of August, officials with the BCC told The Independent. The current capacity of the national data centre is 750 terabyte and by the month end, another two petabyte (one petabyte=1024 terabyte) of data capacity will be added. Talking to The Independent, Tareq Barkatullah, Director, National Data Centre, said that the storage capacity is being increased under a Tk. 560 crore World Bank-funded project called Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT). When the National Data Centre was inaugurated back in 2010, its storage capacity was 30 terabyte. It took nearly two years to increase that capacity. In 2014, its capacity was increased up to 750 terabyte. In the next 7-8 months, the storage capacity is will be almost used up, said the director of the data centre. He said that the increase of data flow from different government entities has increased manifolds in the past couple of years. Starting with the tax payer information to the files from different ministries and regulatory bodies, the volume of data being stored in the data centre is huge. There is a huge inflow of data from the governments land digitization and birth registration process. So the current capacity of the centre couldnt keep pace with the data inflow, he said.