The government reduced its IT spend by £249m in 2011/12, with savings of £104m coming from its move to digital services and contract renegotiations, and £145m from its moratorium on contracts above £5m. The ...
Tags: IT spend, Government Digital Service, GDS, Business Link website
SMEs say they are concerned over the delay in the accreditation process for G-Cloud services. The pan-government accreditation process on G-Cloud services for information deemed sensitive is being carried out by IT security arm CESG. No ...
Tags: G-Cloud, IL2 services, Government Protective Marking System
The Cabinet Office claims that a "ruthless approach" to "eradicating wasteful spending" across central government has helped generate £104m in savings in IT spending out of more than £5.5bn in total efficiency savings it claims ...
Tags: The Cabinet Office, National IT platform, Francis Maude, ERG
The lack of established cloud standards and interoperability has made it difficult to move workloads between private clouds and public clouds and some experts say these problems hinder cloud adoption. Without any industry-wide cloud ...
Tags: cloud standards, private clouds, public clouds, cloud services
Huddle co-founder and CEO Alastair Mitchell talks about the simplicity of cloud-based collaboration, the technology that came before, and resurrecting dead content. The application service provider (ASP) model was a buzz in the dot com ...
Tags: Interview, Huddle, cloud-based collaboration, cloud computing, ASP model
Denise McDonagh, director of the government's G-Cloud programme, talks to Computer Weekly about the implementation challenges of the programme and the routes being taken to break government's dependence on large outsourcers. To describe ...
Tags: Interview, G-Cloud programme, cloud frameworks, big legacy systems
Cloud mobile device management services will be key to enabling bring your own device policies, according to a Lambeth Council IT chief. Rob Miller, assistant director of ICT services at the London borough council, said: "As technology ...
Tags: Cloud mobile, IT, ICT services, flexible IT environment
Computer Weekly has launched a programme to recognise the most influential women in UK IT – and we want your help in selecting the winners. Scroll down to vote and see the bottom of the page to find out more information on our ...
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