The MCloud Platform is a joint governmental information infrastructure operating on the basis of “cloud computing” technology. The “cloud computing” represents an IT services’ delivery model, allowing access, upon request and based on network, to all configurable and virtualizable computing resources (for example networks, servers, storage devices, applications and services) which can be made readily available with minimal administration or interaction with the supplier of these services’ effort. 

The MCloud users are no longer bound to maintain a complex and costly infrastructure, but may access at anytime, on demand and in online mode, networks, servers, storage devices, applications or services, nevertheless, 

the interaction with the supplier of such services being minimal. 

The MCloud Platform is intended for the exclusive use of central administrative authorities and organizational structures falling within their spheres of competence, subordinated to the Government (CPA) and represents an innovative delivery model based on infrastructure, platform and software as services’ consumption.

The MCloud Platform has several objectives, including: 

streamline the IT resources through reuse and readjustment;

exempt public institutions from managing their own infrastructure, so as to give them the opportunity to concentrate their efforts on the set objectives as well as to create value-added services;

reduce the data centers maintenance costs through rationalization, consolidation and virtualization;

minimize paper consumption within the governance process.

 The MCloud Platform use and operation process within CPAs is governed by Government Decision No. 128 dated February 20, 2014 “On the joint governmental technological platform (MCloud)”.

The Regulation establishes the platform use and operation manner and determines the participants’ tasks and responsibilities regarding the relations associated with the use and operation of the platform in question (provider, operator, beneficiaries, and other participants). It should be mentioned that the Regulation provides both for general duties of the MCloud platform participants, as well as their duties depending on the type of provided services (Infrastructure as a Service - IaaS, Platform as a Service - PaaS, Software as a Service - SaaS).