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Government Cloud Procurement: Insights & Observations from the UK

Dr Richard Sykes

Independent Strategic Advisor

9th October 2012

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G-Cloud

September 2009 – August 2010Joint Government/Industry Exercise scopes and details G-Cloud and its Apps Store;Public Sector Network (PSN) progressed .

2010 – 2011Little follow through – new Government focus on immediate term cost reduction;IT Project size cap: <£100m;Focus on enabling Small & Medium Size Enterprise (SME) involvement.

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G-Cloud 2011-2012

Funding for G-Cloud implementation;1st (Q4 2011) and then 2nd (May 2012) G-Cloud Framework Procurements:

Apps Store focus rather than G-Cloud per seSME focusActive ‘marketing & education’ of Government Depts + ‘Lead CIOs’, but no central direction/obligation

Parliamentary Committee (PASC) articulates the malign impact of the oligopolyLondon Borough of Hillingdon adopts Google Apps

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Software-as-a-Service & Apps-as-a-Service

Platform-as-a-Service

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Process-as-a-Service The

CONSUMING

The

COMPUTING

The Core Divide in the Vendor Landscape

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Forecast Surge in Software as a Service

Clouds and Competing Shores

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G-Cloud as Platform

UK Government security measure: Incident Levels (IL)

~80% of Central Government services </= IL3

Current UK Central Government is served by a complex diversity of data centres, predominantly small and inefficient.

Secure multi-tenanted data centres simultaneously servicing Government, Enterprise & Consumer markets would present a very attractive IaaS/PaaS investment proposition for the private sector

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