Definitions
Business Units
GNB business organizations within the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative Branches. These units include, but are not limited to, departments, school districts, hospitals, crown corporations, legislative bodies, and the court system. Business units can provide services to the public or to other units within government. The specific range of business units impacted by any given policy instrument will be found in the Application section.
Cloud brokering services
The IT Service Delivery Organization will help business units by negotiating and managing cloud services relationships from multiple providers.
Directive
Business units must take a Cloud Smart approach when developing or modernizing business services.
Business units must adopt cloud services when they are the best option as determined by the Cloud Smart Decision Framework.
The Cloud Smart Decision Framework helps business weigh several aspects in their decision, including:
- meeting business outcomes as defined within business requirements
- addressing people, information, and business risks using GNB’s Business Impact Assessment (BIA)
- providing appropriate privacy protection
- providing appropriate cyber security protection
- aligning to all relevant acts, regulations, polices, and supporting policy instruments
- the GC Right Cloud Selection Guidance
Purpose
This directive and supporting instruments provide a formalized, repeatable way to decide when to use cloud-based solutions.
This directive assigns responsibilities and guides the Business in the application of GNB’s Cloud Smart approach.
