G-Cloud: What are the legal risks of Whitehall’s cost-cutting plan?

G-Cloud: What are the legal risks of Whitehall’s cost-cutting plan?
You can’t fail to have noticed the emergence of cloud computing as a tech buzzword. It’s all over the press and market analysts can’t stop talking about it.
With regard to shared services, a recent report from consultancy Deloitte went as far as to suggest that, at a local governmental level: “Given the threat to existing levels of public funding there is now a strong case for making the adoption of shared services for certain back-office functions mandatory.”
http://www.silicon.com/management/public-sector/2010/02/12/g-cloud-what-are-the-legal-risks-of-whitehalls-cost-cutting-plan-39745450/
Cloud computing and shared services produce all sorts of complications

You can’t fail to have noticed the emergence of cloud computing as a tech buzzword. It’s all over the press and market analysts can’t stop talking about it.

With regard to shared services, a recent report from consultancy Deloitte went as far as to suggest that, at a local governmental level: “Given the threat to existing levels of public funding there is now a strong case for making the adoption of shared services for certain back-office functions mandatory.”

http://www.silicon.com/management/public-sector/2010/02/12/g-cloud-what-are-the-legal-risks-of-whitehalls-cost-cutting-plan-39745450/

Cloud computing and shared services produce all sorts of complications

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