ODC-Noord: Building blocks for an existing government cloud

How did a small team in the east of the Netherlands (Groningen) from the Government Datacenter North (ODC-Noord) grow into a supplier of crucial building blocks for the Netherlands digital government strategy? Jaap Jansma, Manager of ODC-Noord, and Marcel Timmer, Country Director Netherlands at Red Hat, explain.ODC-Noord implements, manages, and operates as a scalable, sovereign cloud service for the Dutch government, and Red Hat provides the fundamental open source software. Together, the 2 companies look at what’s needed to continue fulfilling this role within the government, ranging from