IT leadership – what is a CIO anyway?
Yesterday, I attended the first day of the newly-named Charity IT Leaders conference near Oxford, which this year went under the banner of ‘The Evolving CIO’. I was there as a sponsor (which is grand...
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G-Cloud sales analysis from March 2012 until October 2013
CloudStore sales data covering the period from March 2012 until October 2013 (20 months) has just been released by the G-Cloud team. I’ve re-run the same analysis that I did back in April this year...
View ArticlePSN IL2 accreditation
We’re pleased to announce that we have been awarded Pan Government Accreditation for the PSN connectivity to our Cloud Compute (IL0 – IL2) service at Business Impact Level IL2. If you are an Eduserv...
View ArticleFeedback on the new G-Cloud security approach
The G-Cloud team recently asked for feedback on the new security approach that will replace the use of Pan Government Accreditation (PGA) for services available through G-Cloud. This approach is going...
View Article“Being More Business”: vital to the future health of charity IT teams
This week we are at the Charity IT Leaders Annual Conference in Oxford. ‘Be More Business’ is the theme for the event which will look at how the ability to communicate effectively across departments...
View ArticleWhat does “Be More Business” mean to charities?
During the Charity IT Leaders conference today there was a speed dating session where all the conference sponsors (i.e. suppliers) had a chance to pitch their offerings to each of 11 small groups of...
View ArticleResponding to the Cloud Security Principles
In light of the security changes being made in time for G-Cloud 6, where Pan Government Accreditation (PGA) is deprecated in favour of suppliers responding to questions based on the CESG Cloud Security...
View ArticleG-Cloud 6 goes live
G-Cloud 6 services have gone live on the Digital Marketplace today: The number of suppliers and services has yet again grown. This iteration sees 1,453 suppliers, up by over 15% on G-Cloud 5...
View ArticleHybrid is a journey, not the destination
Speaking at the AWS Summit event in London earlier this week, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com, Werner Vogels, is widely quoted as saying: In our eyes, hybrid IT is not the...
View ArticleThe role of hybrid cloud in shared services
When people talk about the benefits of cloud for digital transformation in the public sector, much of the focus tends to be on its potential to support large-scale transformation projects. Projects...
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