With proliferation of e-Governence projects and applications to provide the citizen services electronically, the need of redundant, relible and secure IT Infrastructure, including the Data Center has exponentially grown. Bihar State Data Center was established in 2015 by Department of Information Technology to work as a repository for hosting of web applications and server implementation of different departments of the State Government. It has been augmented to its maximum capacity and presently is hosting more than 70 applications and websites of various departments. Now, To cater the future requirements of the state, BSDC 2.0 has been planned.

BSDC 2.0 has been planned as a Tier-III data center that will be key-supporting element of e-Governenece initiatives & businesses for delivering services to citizens. It would enable various State Departments to host their applications on a common infrastructure. It has been designed to ensure high availability, quick scalability, efficient management and optimized utilization of resoures. It would provide a wide range of services for discovery, analysis, optimization, virtualization & migration of services at existing SDC as well.