State Data Centre (SDC) has been been identified as one of the most important element of the core infrstructure for supporting e-Governance initiative of National eGovernance Plan(NeGP).
Under this intitiative, the Nagaland State Data Centre was set up in the year 2008. It is presently located below New Secretariate, Thizama Road, Nagaland, Kohima.
Nagaland State Data Centre (NSDC) acts as a mediator and convergence point between open unsecured public domain and sensitive government environment. It has been set up as a Tier-II Data Centre. It enables various State departments of Nagaland to host thier service/applications on a common infrastructure leading to ease of integration and efficient management, ensuring that computing resources and the support infrastructure is adequately and optimally used. The NSDCE is equipped to host /co-locate systems(e.g Web servers, Application Servers, Database servers, SAN etc) to host applications at the SDC, to use the centralized computing power. The centralized computers/servers are used to host multiple applications.