Slovenian State Cloud (SSC or DRO) represents a computer infrastructure for direct budget users. It operates as cloud ecosystem for public service providers and provides them with secure storage for government and citizen data. State Cloud operates as central IT infrastructure and development point and offers services for citizens and companies, and the ability to quickly achieve their business objectives using the concept of cloud computing.
‒ IT infrastructure is owned and operated by the government, it provides services that use sensitive, personal and other data and information that the government does not want to store outside its environment. Governmental agencies are using central State Cloud and its shared infrastructures and services according to their individual needs.
‒ The State Cloud is a logical set of central support infrastructure and hardware and computer software supported by central government in order to reduce operating costs and therefore drive internal efficiencies within government. For example, it comprises UPS systems, server blades, various disk systems, access terminals, various virtualization platforms, operating systems, proprietary and open source software, control systems, management systems, hardware and software-defined network components, etc. The basis of the DRO computer cloud is the virtualization of hardware resources, which are arranged in three logical groups (data centers) in two locations (Ljubljana, Maribor): PDC (LJ), SP3 (LJ) and NIC (MB).
‒ Within The State Cloud there are offered central services for very different areas. For internal needs there are infrastructure services IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), and partly the entire PaaS (Platform as a Service) computer environments, and the latter, together with SaaS (Software as a Service) software for the end users, are also included in the general part of the service catalog. So the DRO offers, for example, central e-mail services, electronic document storage services, central backup services, universal storage of objects (documents, cases, multimedia files), common building blocks (Security Platform, SI-CAS, SI-CES, Tray, IO-Module, Piwik, data warehouse, Business Intelligence, search engine, electronic signature, time stamping, e-delivery system, big file exchange system, service bus), hosting information systems and web presentation pages, etc. including information security services.