Federal cloud
The federal cloud is the private cloud of the German federal administration . It is operated by the federal IT service provider, the Federal Information Technology Center ( ITZBund ).
history
The creation of a cloud for the federal administration was announced in 2011 by the Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich .
On May 20, 2015, the federal cabinet decided to set up the federal cloud as part of the “Federal IT Consolidation”. At the beginning of 2016, the ITZBund was commissioned to set up the federal cloud. On June 30, 2017, the first federal cloud services were made available for the authorities of the federal administration. On April 17, 2018 it was announced that the German company Nextcloud had won the tender for the BundescloudBox. The announcement of the use of an open source solution by the federal administration generated a lot of media coverage.
Parliamentary referral
The federal cloud is the subject of numerous inquiries from the German Bundestag.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Berke : IT security: Friedrich wants to build a federal cloud. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ IT Commissioner of the Federal Government | News | Federal IT consolidation: project started. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ The Federal Government Commissioner for IT: IT: Basic concept for IT consolidation federal. Federal Ministry of the Interior, July 22, 2015, accessed on January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ ITZBund - About Us - ITZBund Annual Report 2017. Accessed on January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ ITZBund - About Us - ITZBund Annual Report 2018. Accessed on January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Patrick Beuth, DER SPIEGEL: Open Source Software: Nextcloud is building the federal cloud - DER SPIEGEL - Netzwelt. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ heise online: Bundescloud: Open Source with Nextcloud instead of Dropbox or Google Drive. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Overview of printed matter on the federal cloud. In: Printed matter and plenary minutes of the Bundestag. German Bundestag, accessed on January 20, 2020 .