Last update: 03/04/2019
Cheaper and more secure
Six months ago, Denmark’s Agency for Governmental IT Services (Statens It) began making a private cloud computing environment available to all state agencies. The agency is using OpenStack, a well-known open source cloud platform. It is less expensive than commercial alternatives, and, since it is entirely under the control of the agency, does not impose any extra security measures on its customers. “Open source tools make it possible for Statens It to provide a less expensive alternative,” the agency explains in an interview with the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory (OSOR). The…
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