An ambitious project to create a secure government cloud computing infrastructure is aiming to slash hundreds of millions of pounds from public sector’s IT spend.
Cloud computing – applications and services which are hosted on and delivered from the internet, and accessed via a web browser – has been gaining a lot of attention of late as it holds the promise of lower up-front costs compared with on-premise products that IT teams must buy and support themselves.
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“I think that it [the G-Cloud] is one of the levers. Whether we like it or not, there is an economic reality that begins to accelerate projects that drive out cost.”
An ambitious project to create a secure government cloud computing infrastructure is aiming to slash hundreds of millions of pounds from public sector’s IT spend.
Cloud computing – applications and services which are hosted on and delivered from the internet, and accessed via a web browser – has been gaining a lot of attention of late as it holds the promise of lower up-front costs compared with on-premise products that IT teams must buy and support themselves.