The effects of the government’s new IT strategy may reach central government departments first, but they will filter through to the whole of the public sector over the coming months and years.
The government aims to save £3.2bn a year with the new infrastructure, by making it easier to share systems and applications and provide services in partnership with other organisations without having to make big infrastructure investments.
The planned measures include a new government-wide voice and data network, a government cloud infrastructure allowing organisations to host IT services from a shared environment, and an applications store containing business applications that can be shared and reused.
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“There are elements of the strategy that will enable greater use of shared services, and it should allow us to avoid the cost of them while getting the benefits.”
The effects of the government’s new IT strategy may reach central government departments first, but they will filter through to the whole of the public sector over the coming months and years.
The government aims to save £3.2bn a year with the new infrastructure, by making it easier to share systems and applications and provide services in partnership with other organisations without having to make big infrastructure investments.
The planned measures include a new government-wide voice and data network, a government cloud infrastructure allowing organisations to host IT services from a shared environment, and an applications store containing business applications that can be shared and reused.
“There are elements of the strategy that will enable greater use of shared services, and it should allow us to avoid the cost of them while getting the benefits.”