All thanks to deal with Vormetric Virtustream, a cloud software and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider, has added software-based 'data at rest' encryption to its cloud services portfolio through a partnership with Vormetric, a ...
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The Government Digital Service (GDS) is rolling out open source content management system Drupal, according to one of its suppliers. GDS is also looking at integrating a Drupal function that will allow it to spin out new government sites ...
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Bristol City Council has opted for an open source electronic document and records management (EDRM) system as part of moves to slash its operational budget by £70m. The council signed a deal with Alfresco for document and digital ...
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The government must force NHS suppliers to list their prices on a comparison website in order to drive out £500m of overspend caused by price variation, according to research. The study from Ernst & Young found that discrepancies in ...
IT infrastructure company SCC has become the first supplier on the government’s CloudStore to win pan-government security accreditation. The firm has gained accreditation for its multi-tenanted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) ...
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Almost three quarters (70%) of experience IT pros claim to have considered a move to the NHS, according to a survey by IT healthcare recruiter max20. Questioning 130 IT professionals, that work outside of the NHS, 46% said ‘career ...
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The provision of GP IT services are to be given to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), in a move which could see doctors’ systems outsourced to third-party providers, according to the NHS Commissioning Board’s (NHS CB) ...
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The G-Cloud should be held up as a model for how to do frameworks in government, deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell has said. The comments follow moves by the Cabinet Office to freeze all new procurement frameworks, as part of its review ...
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The G-Cloud looks set to become the future model for the way government buys its IT – with a new framework in the pipeline that will include secure email services for the NHS – and calls for it to become a blueprint for all new ...
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Speaking at Business Cloud Summit 2012, Denise McDonagh, director of the government's G-Cloud programme, called for public sector champions to push forward adoption of the G-Cloud. G-Cloud is in its third year of development. "We have to ...
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2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream.More users started adopting cloud-based services and vendors intensified competition by launching aggressive price wars for market share. Enterprises and public sector organisations ...
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The government is to put an end to large ICT frameworks following a review into the efficacy of procurement practices for small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs). Government ICT frameworks will only be agreed where they are shown to ...
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Innovation, consensus and anarchy in Welsh IT Wales as a networked nation Welsh datacentre rationalisation programme Aligning technology to the needs of Wales Balancing Wales's IT books In many respects Wales has a far better track record ...
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Technology is taking an ever more central role in the way we work, live and play. The future for the IT community is bright, and IT professionals have a unique opportunity to lead their organisations to a successful economic recovery. But ...
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The government’s CloudStore model could be emulated across other government services as a means of improving the number of SMEs doing business with the public sector, the government’s procurement chief has said. Speaking at ...
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