UK.gov unzips, pulls out £100m wad for its favourite suppliers

The UK Cabinet Office says as much as £100m of public-sector IT contracts are now up for grabs for the 458 cloud services providers approved by Whitehall. All the government needs to do now is teach IT buyers in the public sector how to actually use the newly launched UK.gov G-Cloud 2 CloudStore, Blighty's online procurement …

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There is not a cat in hells chance of using anything cloudy in governemnt for any decent bit of work. Every time you even mention the word cloud for storing anything (even a gov cloud) about 40 civil servants (sys admins, data guardians) leap up (honestly they do move sometimes) and scream DATA PROTECTION (i.e. cover our arses boys, data aggregation means redundancy) and the sys admins block access. Take Huddle for example, one gov dept allows its use whilst others block access to it. And no civil servant will allow the use of the FCO IL3 cloud because it's not in their dept. Most civil service IT wallahs need shot or dragged into the 21st century or sacked