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The cloud in action

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    The cloud in action

    So hows that cloud doing?

    The G-cloud in this case, which for anyone unfamiliar with it is a way for public sector to buy cloud computing utility services from many smaller firms, fewer custom solutions, and with shorter contracts than the usual big IT giants.

    DECC IT overhaul follows government digital standards

    The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) often deals with large outsourcing contracts, but it is the first government department to move away from a single supplier approach, to a new multi-sourcing model across its core activities.

    It is an approach recommended by the Cabinet Office and Government Digital Service (GDS), and one that other departments are likely to follow.

    A “tower” model approach has allowed DECC to break down its IT contract into as many component parts as possible, and find different specialist companies – mainly sourced from G-Cloud - to supply the various technologies. The different towers are then overseen by a service integrator which ensures each of those components work with each other.

    Those towers include PSN, hosting, user devices, office productivity, line of business support, printed and electronic records, and document management (EDRM) to enable DECC to become more collaborative, unified and joined up.

    The model is more complex and requires more in-house resources compared to its legacy Fujitsu outsourcing contract, but the DECC will see net savings on IT costs of 15-20% year on year.
    Sounds impressive.
    But today in FT...

    Ministers blast shambolic IT overhaul - FT.com
    I can't quote directly because of the FT Copyright, but DECC and BIS are mentioned, along with stories of Vince Cable's and Ed Davey's departments suffering with losing data, slow connections, screen freezes, intermittent email and crawling networks. The consortium of smaller SME firms struggled to cope with the scale and pace of the migration from the legacy systems.
    Last edited by CheeseSlice; 19 June 2014, 22:10.

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