UK’s Government G-Cloud is a ‘suicidal mission with no exit’ says LinuxIT CEO

Grazed from Computing.co.uk.  Author: Peter Gothard.

The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT, Peter Dawes-Huish, slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week, likening the current service level to a military mission "with an entry route and no exit route" that is "not just dangerous, but suicide".

"Data lock-in and data opaqueness is as prevalent in cloud offerings as in any other delivery model," Dawes-Huish told the Westminster cloud computing eForum.  "If you move your applications and data to a cloud service in the proprietary model then you’ll be held to ransom, and it doesn’t matter how flexible your opportunity for moving, you’re locked in."…

Addressing an audience that included government CIO Andy Nelson, Dawes-Huish said that the government "may have created a choice of platform supplier, but you’ve [also] created dependence upon that software supplier.

"If government mandated that all systems purchased on the cloud conform to the same standards of data and software interoperability, then you’d get the benefits of cloud, but reduce the risk of making mistakes."…

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