Carter recommends 'G Cloud' for gov IT

The newly published Digital Britain report has advocated that more government IT applications be moved to cloud computing. In its chapter eight section on procurement, the report says that cloud computing – in which a third party takes responsibility for the technical management of IT functions – can work as a shared service …

[Andrew Austin]

Great but....

not so great when the kit and staff running it are not even in the UK. Will there be any guarantees that the infrastructure and staff required will be based in the UK? If not, we may as well outsource our entire public sector and government and stop beating about the bush.

[david 63]

Oh no...

...they've fallen for the cloud hype...more swill for the trough.

Someone needs a slap with a clue stick.

[Sooty]

Confidentiality

Isn't there a limit to the amount of information that the government can entrust to a third party though?

having a third party design your systems and hand them over is a little different to having a third party host and manage them. There's no need to leave a USB stick on a train with all of your confidential plans and documents on it, if your actually storing them directly on servers belonging to the lowest bidder.

[Elmer Phud]

Every silver lining

Is this an attempt to lessen the amount of stuff being lost or nicked, to use less portable storage devices?

"Look, we've stopped all the data on those CDs and laptops being lost or copied. No-one has to carry it around anymore.

Where is it? It's in the cloud. Well no, you can't actually get at it, it's there somewhere, honest. "

Or more like: clouds = less staff + bonus for getting rid of staff

[Christopher Ahrens]

Sounds like..

Someone in the Governement heard this buzzword and decided "We need to get some of this to make us look up-to-date!". And now cue the massive IT spending on a project that is no different than what they have now, but will still fail miserably...

[amanfromMars 1]

Smile, You're on Candid Camera.

"Oh no......they've fallen for the cloud hype...more swill for the trough." .... By david 63 Posted Wednesday 17th June 2009 10:55 GMT

Don't rock the boat, david 63, it is where they need to be for Re-Education.

"Someone needs a slap with a clue stick." ..... MeThinks it is something which they will all receive a beating with ..... which is very Opus Dei, albeit without all of the excess drag baggage.

And as there are so very few who know the Ins and Outs of Cloud Infrastructure, it will be interesting to see who puts their noses into the trough for free Cash and who in Government and its Pet Petty Quangoes justifies and encourages its spending with, I imagine, an inordinate amount of waffle and gibberish.

What it will do though, and of that there is no doubt, it will render Governments as Servants pf the people rather than pratting about as if leaders .. so that is well worth the effort although to be honest, it is not something which they can resist, even if they wanted to.

[Lost in a maze of twisty messages, all alike.]

Apparently ...

... the G cloud has hit the G spot ...