January 2013 - Informatics

E-Gov Products & ServicesSQL analyzer, fine tuning the data types and field lengthetc. The average response time for 1000 virtual users forcomplete round trip is around 146.667 seconds as tested bySTQC.SecuritySecurity audit was performed by different CERT-Incertified security agencies every year. Besides the usualsecurity precautions the other precautions taken are:double password for login, The scratch card technique ,options encryption, salted password encryption, passwordhashing, option reconstruction, logging of every action bydepartment , disabling SQL prompt are some of securityfeatures which protect the system and NIC employees.APPLICATION HOSTING PLATFORMFor last so many years, Data Centre Web-Hostingteam of Delhi, along with NDC Hyderabad team,have been functional in providing the web-hostingservice support to various on-line counselingapplications of various States Boards as well asCentral Counseling Boards. Andhra Pradesh StateBoard counseling application is also one of them.Treating counseling application hosting as one of themost critical activity, special arrangements are madeevery year by setting up a dedicated team of highlyskilled & experienced manpower and creating thesetup of dedicated server infrastructure at NIC Data-Centre.High capacity server clusters are deployed withrequisite setup/configuration covering performancetuning, security hardening, load testing etc. Variousstate-of-art technologies like Load Balancing(LB),High Availability(HA) are used to handle any kind ofheavy work load and hardware/software failures.Virtualization enabled Server setup is prepared formanaging compute resources, quick provisioning,centralized monitoring etc. Intensive monitoring ofthe applications/server Infrastructure, continues on24X7 basis, helps the data-centre team in providingseamless service to the end users.Disaster Recovery setup is kept ready with havingdata replication happening continuously to remotesite. A combination of replication technologies (inhousedeveloped software as well as state-of-artsoftware technologies) are used to handle the hostbased data replication between the primary andsecondary sites.MONAWAR HUSSAINSENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYSTS. V. KRISHNA PRASADPRINCIPAL SYSTEMS ANALYST22 | informatics.nic.in | January 2013