How the G-Cloud will make buyers think like service integrators
Advocates of cloud computing often talk of how it offers a new procurement model for IT services, providing both substantial savings and more flexibility in the face of fluctuating demand. Their day is coming with the first procurements for the G-Cloud, the government’s formal channel for procuring cloud services.
However according to Kevin Holland, who has been involved in the G-Cloud programme for two years in his capacity as service management consultant for NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the outlook is more complex.
While the availability of cloud services can encourage the view that you pay for what you use and it’s the supplier’s job to know about the technology, Holland claims that getting the best out of the cloud is going to demand new skills in service integration that are not yet widespread in the public sector…