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The Government's G-Cloud Programme Has Expanded Again
Oct 31, 2013The government's G-Cloud programme has expanded again, with public sector buyers now able to purchase digital services from over 1,000 suppliers, the vast majority of which are SMEs. G-Cloud 4, known as G4, has attracted a record number ...
Tags: G-Cloud, Computer Products
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Fed CIO Was at The Amazon Web Services Conference Here Praising The Company's Services
Sep 12, 2013Frank Baitman, the CIO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was at the Amazon Web Services conference here praising the company’s services. His talk was on the verge of becoming a long infomercial, when he ...
Tags: Cloud Industry, Standardize
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A Deal Between Microsoft and Janet Will See Over 18 Million Staff and Students
May 22, 2013A deal between Microsoft and Janet, the UK's research and education network, will see over 18 million staff and students at learning institutions benefit from a cloud-based peering arrangement. The agreement will enable improved access ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Oracle Is Setting up a Data Centre "in The Thames Valley"
May 15, 2013Computer giant Oracle is setting up a data centre "in the Thames Valley" in order to retain and capture government cloud computing business. The data centre is Oracle's second in the UK after Linlithgow in Scotland, which it picked up ...
Tags: Oracle, Cloud Data, Computer Products
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Coca-Cola Enterprises Has Adopted a De Facto "Cloud-First" Policy
May 13, 2013Coca-Cola Enterprises, the company that bottles and distributes the famous beverage in Western Europe and Scandinavia, has adopted a de facto "cloud-first" policy - not just for new enterprise applications, but also for in-house ...
Tags: Cloud, Computer Products
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Users Are Wary of Putting Sensitive Applications in The Cloud
Dec 24, 2012Customers of AWS public cloud are reaping the benefits of cost savings, elasticity and scalability, but many are still wary of putting sensitive applications in the cloud, despite having a "cloud-first" and "cloud-ready" strategy. At an ...
Tags: AWS public cloud, cloud-first, cloud-ready, Amazon
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The Federal Government Are Gradually Moving Their It Operations to The Cloud in a Shift
Dec 20, 2012In response to a White House mandate, the agencies and departments of the federal government are gradually moving their IT operations to the cloud in a shift that could save billions of dollars, while also raising serious security concerns. ...
Tags: Cloud, White House, federal government, IT operations, security concerns
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IT Leaders Will Need to "Get Real" and Make "Cloud" Come True During 2013
Dec 18, 2012IT leaders will need to “get real” and stop saying that everything is moving into the cloud during 2013, according to analyst firm Forrester. In a blog entry which counts down the company’s top 10 cloud predictions for ...
Tags: Forrester, Cloud economics
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Mission-Critical Systems Remain at The Core of The Datacentre
Nov 9, 2012Enterprise mission-critical applications and workloads are rising, but IT executives are still not confident about running them on public cloud platforms, according to research firm IDC. Mission-critical systems remain at the core of the ...
Tags: public cloud platforms, Mission-critical systems, datacentre, CIOs
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Second G-Cloud Framework Has Gone Live,with Twice The Number of Original Suppliers
Oct 26, 2012The government's second G-Cloud framework has gone live,with twice the number of original suppliers. Of the 458 suppliers on the 12-month framework,which allows public sector bodies to buy on demand IT services,three-quarters are small ...
Tags: government, second G-Cloud framework, UK, double number of suppliers
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1,500 Education Institutions in The Us Are Now Using Aws for a Wide Variety of Uses
Oct 12, 2012Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon.com's cloud services division, has claimed that more than 300 government agencies and 1,500 education institutions in the US are now using AWS for a wide variety of uses including "big data" analytics, ...
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Mark Adams Oversees IT Change That Supports Major Transformation in Role of Council
Oct 10, 2012Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council is a firm believer in making changes to the business gradually. He is overseeing an IT change that is supporting a major transformation in the role of the council – from a provider of ...
Tags: Interview, Suffolk County Council, IT service, virtual disk image
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To Describe The Aims of The CloudStore as Revolutionary Is No Understatement
Jul 31, 2012Denise 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