Could cloud computing be the answer to cutting billions of government spending?

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Published: April 9, 2010Posted in: Business Intelligence, Cisco, Clouds, EMC, G-Cloud, Government Cloud, Microsoft, Opinions & Explanations, VMWare, VirtualizationTags:
Could cloud computing be the answer to cutting billions of government spending?
Just got off the phone with Capgemini CTO Karl Deacon.

We had a long chat about the pilot projects that Capgemini is running for the government in relation to the G-cloud programme. I will be writing an analysis of this next week but thought I would get some of it out of my system.
The interview left me thinking that the next government, whoever it may be, could make big mistakes by targeting IT projects to meet cost cutting targets. If the wrong projects are canned the costs in the long term and loss could be huge.

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inside-outsourcing/2010/04/could-cloud-computing-be-the-answer-to-cutting-billions-of-government-spending.html

Capgemini is building two full cloud infrastructures with one using Microsoft and the other the Cisco, EMC and VMware partnership. It is then building development platforms on top of these infrastructures. The final layer in the cloud will be software as a service.

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