Will Google be one of the first G-Cloud winners?
Following the publication of the Strategic Implementation Plan for the Government ICT Strategy back in October, we were told that Cloud delivery will be increasingly important – g.g. by December 2015, the goal is for 50% of central government new ICT spending will be transitioned to public Cloud computing services.
This is an aggressive target, requiring a big culture shift within Government. To assist, the Government is establishing a G-Cloud Authority to act as a government-wide entity for commodity commissioning and direction of procurement as a “Cloud First” initiative is launched. And, as in the US, which pioneered this approach, the low hanging fruit with which to start populating the App Store is tactical and will probably be email…