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The British government, one of the country's most voracious IT consumers, has said it will switch many of its internal services to the cloud – but development of the so-called "G-Cloud" has been criticised in some quarters.
Best of British 2011
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My other big worry about the G-Cloud was that the government would only talk to the usual suspects – the large systems integrators that appear to have government information and communication technology ICT contracts sewn up.
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Research company TechMarketView, however, suggests that the G-Cloud project is growing fuzzier at the edges: The measurements for success have altered.
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To protect impartiality, the government would still own and control the app store services interchange and a proposed central body that would pre-certify G-Cloud components.
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That is nowhere near good enough; the government should be aiming for 80-90% savings from the G-Cloud.
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The G-Cloud idea would see the government running the data centres, consolidating hundreds of centres currently being run around the country by central government, police, local authorities and other public sector institutions.
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As technical co-lead on phase two of the G-Cloud project, I helped draft a detailed proposal for the G-Cloud based on the core principals that it would be a collection of cloud infrastructures, services and applications, all bound together by open standards and with an app store at the heart.
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The previous Labour administration proposed the G-Cloud – a government-only cloud computing service – that would save £3.2bn out of a central budget of £16bn.
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The G-Cloud project is now led by the MoJ chief information officer, Andy Nelson, and though it is still moving ahead, it is doing so cautiously.
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Word on the cloud-based street this summer was that the government's G-Cloud IT project had been canned, but that's not true.
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