The Digital Britain report promotes a ‘G-cloud’ as a way of contributing to the £7.2bn of savings in back-office and IT services identified in the Treasury’s Operational Efficiency Review, but what is it? To understand the G-cloud you need to get behind some of the jargon – bear with me.
One way of reducing IT costs is through hosting. Instead of operating your own IT installation, you can choose to house your systems in somebody else’s data centre. You will usually pay a fixed monthly fee to a commercial company or partner that will provide the computing capacity, backup, staffing and buildings and pay the utility bills.
http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/10/silver-linings/
The ‘G-cloud’ could help achieve the £7.2bn back-office savings required by ministers – but what is it?
The Digital Britain report promotes a ‘G-cloud’ as a way of contributing to the £7.2bn of savings in back-office and IT services identified in the Treasury’s Operational Efficiency Review, but what is it? To understand the G-cloud you need to get behind some of the jargon – bear with me.
One way of reducing IT costs is through hosting. Instead of operating your own IT installation, you can choose to house your systems in somebody else’s data centre. You will usually pay a fixed monthly fee to a commercial company or partner that will provide the computing capacity, backup, staffing and buildings and pay the utility bills.
http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/10/silver-linings/
The ‘G-cloud’ could help achieve the £7.2bn back-office savings required by ministers – but what is it?
