The Raise of ‘G Cloud’
The government should move more IT applications to a cloud computing platform, according to the recently released Digital Britain report. Chapter eight of the report, which addresses procurement, suggests that cloud computing (delegating responsibility for technical IT management) could be an appropriate platform for shared IT services in the public sector.
Cloud Computing can give on-demand service and provide organizations with lots of elasticity in their demands for and their spending on the area of IT. The report puts forth the generation of a ‘G Cloud’ intended for government business apps to go along with the Public Service Network. It also claims that this might be used for functions like storage and server virtualization and for systems-management automation as well.
