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By Mark Smitham, Goverment Delivery Service With the milestone of our third procurement framework launch on Friday it’s important to understand just how this affects the security accreditation of services. First of all, it is important to know that if you already have a service going through the accreditation process then the new procurement framework [...]
Some local authorities are failing to restrict staff use of public cloud storage, leaving them open to the risk of a data breach, according to Acronis. Figures obtained under a FOI request reveal that of those local authorities that do have restricted access to public cloud storage, 59% can be overridden on a case-by-case basis. [...]
Whether it is music industry moguls like Jay Z and Kanye West or fashion labels such as high street behemoth H&M and couture label Versace, big collaborations yield big results. And the world of computing is not any different, particularly when these partnerships offer the opportunity to save some valuable cash and streamlining IT solutions [...]
Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude announced today that CloudStore, the online appstore of the Government’s G-Cloud framework for cloud-based ICT services, is open for business. CloudStore offers the public sector a cheaper, quicker and more transparent way to procure the services they need, including email, word processing, system hosting, enterprise resource planning, electronic records management, [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | November 9, 2011 While at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona, I had a stream of meetings with government clients from several European countries who are contemplating the development of private clouds. In some cases, these clouds are seen as the end result of a consolidation process resulting from a decision [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | November 2, 2011 A few days after I met him in DC, the US Federal CIO Steven Van Roekel addressed an audience of technology companies in Palo Alto, summarizing the main directions of his work for the months to come. He stressed efforts in four main areas: data center consolidation [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | October 20, 2011 As the end of the largest Gartner Symposium ever is approaching, I thought I would like to share some of the take aways from interacting with hundreds of government clients over the last four and a half days: Smart Government Serious budgetary concerns are percolating through US [...]
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