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Cloud takes up 10pc of external IT spend, says Gartner

A tenth of all outsourcing spend over 2010 will have gone on cloud services including software, business processes and infrastructure as a service, according to analyst firm Gartner Read more

22 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Cloud computing to boom in 2011

Spending on cloud to grow five times faster than global IT spend... Cloud computing will be one of the fastest growing IT markets... Read more

4 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

Inside the G-Cloud: How cloud-first strategy will remake government IT as we know it

...would appear to be why government has been careful to specify "new" IT spend when talking about its ambitions to move to the cloud. For... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

How will G-Cloud save £340m? 'Er, not sure,' says Whitehall

...website along with an analysis of how these models would impact existing IT spend across government," it added. Relation to reality If the Cabinet Office... Read more

26 May, 2012 by Jo Best

One year on

...later it has over 300 members, representing over $100 billion in annual IT spend; eight published usage models; the first industry paper on best practice... Read more

19 December, 2011

Joe Harley to step down as government and DWP CIO

...reducing its IT bill, with the department managing to cut its total IT spend by £1.5bn between 2005 and 2010 through its technology transformation... Read more

22 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

Government plans G-Cloud Delivery Board

...full-time employee per commodity service; the percentage of Whitehall's new IT spend going on cloud; and the number of departmental systems closed and... Read more

28 October, 2011 by Mark Say

Death of the G-Cloud was greatly exaggerated - but there's a lot of catching up to do

...its grand plan to slash £1bn from the public sector's annual IT spend by using cloud technologies to haul its tech infrastructure into the... Read more

14 September, 2011 by Nick Heath

Cable & Wireless lands PSN intranet deal

...between employees. The government hopes to save £500m a year on its IT spend by the time it is fully set up in 2014. I... Read more

8 September, 2011 by Ben Woods

Why the Cloud Isnâ??t a â??Capitalâ?? Idea

...value. This level of transparency and scalability enables better re-distribution of IT spend across the business. For IT teams it may mean an escape... Read more

17 August, 2011

CIO tips on how to survive losing your budget

...there are "at least a dozen" ways public sector CIOs can reduce IT spend that "you probably wouldn't have entertained in the past". "It... Read more

1 June, 2011 by Nick Heath

EMC CEO: Cloud will bring IT budgets under control

...said. Tucci said organisations were already seeing nearly three-quarters of their IT spend go on maintaining legacy IT infrastructure and applications. "Only 23 per... Read more

10 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

The monarchy and technology through the ages

...was the invention of modern bureaucracy, with its infinite ability to absorb IT spend without showing the slightest sign of improvement — a skill which has... Read more

29 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

London services aim to save £450m

...Savings figuresThe document also gives unaudited figures for Transport for London actual IT spend of £133m in 2010-11, against a forecast of £194m. The... Read more

12 January, 2011 by Kable

Office 365: Microsoft put its Office suite in the cloud

...other cloud services we're actually now in much larger pool of IT spend because we're actually running a company's infrastructure." In addition... Read more

20 October, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

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