A Framework for Integrating Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics into E-Governance Using Openstack Sahara

The information and communication technologies (ICTs) have made significant development in its hardware, software, computing, storage, and communication technologies to leverage the modern-day computing. The E-governance uses ICT to deliver essential government services over the Internet. But due to the limited infrastructure, lack of funds, use of outdated technologies, the current E-governance solutions face many issues related to computing and data processing. The cloud computing is a recent advancement to traditional computing architectures which can overcome the challenges related to computing while big data analytics has emerged over the past data management technologies to solve the limitations related to data acquisition, storage, processing, and analytics. Therefore, the combination of cloud computing and big data analytics would be a welcome option in E-governance. The Openstack is an open-source cloud platform widely used inmost of the organizations because of its distinguished features over the existing computing architectures and having built-in support for big data analytics. The main objective of this paper is to propose a framework for E-governance based on Openstack that integrates cloud computing and big data analytics together to overcome the challenges in existing E-governance system.