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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, [...]
Sunderland’s Cloud is expected to reduce its own operational costs by £1.4m annually over the next five years, in the delivery of IT services through a reduction in hardware, software, maintenance and improved IT management. The Cloud will also provide a low cost, accessible and secure platform for use across Sunderland. It will allow residents [...]
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 [...]
This Strategic Implementation Plan on ICT planning and deployment and provides a reference for central government and is designed to be read alongside the Government ICT Strategy. The Government’s ICT Strategy and Strategic Implementation Plan will deliver better public services for less cost. Through reuse and sharing of our ICT assets, we will improve productivity [...]
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 [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | October 5, 2011 Through my analyst coverage of social media, cloud computing and – more recently – smart government, I am coming across a consistent number of cases where government IT departments are struggling to establish, affirm or defend their relevance to the rest of the business. This is not [...]
A new survey from the National Computing Centre, The Benchmark of IT Spending and Strategy 2011, reveals that organisations are prioritising investments in technology that enable mobile, remote and flexible working. The Benchmark predicts that the overall number of desktop computers in organisational use will decline by 2.1% over the next two years whereas laptop [...]
Warwickshire County Council is to be the first major public sector organisation to provide e-mail services via the public cloud in a pilot scheme that has potential to change how local authorities use e-mail and ICT services. The county council is working with Cabinet Office to pilot the use of cloud-computing within Government to introduce [...]
This research expands upon historic output by exploring key developments and the impact of events during the coalition government’s tenure. Chief Constables and Senior Police Officers from a selection of Police Authorities were joined recently by senior representatives of Research in Motion (Blackberry), Facebook and Twitter to respond to the Commons Home Affairs Committee. ositive [...]
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