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Year in review: How technology defined 2021’s biggest stories
Digital and data once again had a starring role in supporting – and, occasionally, hampering – government’s work this year. PublicTechnology looks back at the most significant events.
HMRC achieves ‘significant improvement’ in IT uptime in FY21
Annual accounts for in-house IT company show number of ‘red days’ fell by a third, while...
Cabinet Office spends £6m on upgraded Google Workspace deal
Two-year contract provides access to a range of software tools
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Highways agency agrees £12.8m deal to replace 20-year-old pavement database
National Highways picks TRL to implement system to supersede platform that runs on Windows Server 2003
HMRC signs £5m cloud-migration deal with Microsoft
Deal covers cloud platforms, consultancy, and cyber tools
The public sector’s path to becoming Consciously Hybrid
Experts from HPE outline why effective digital transformation requires a ‘Consciously Hybrid’ approach to cloud - and how best to achieve this
Home Office signs £5m deal for ‘cloud landing zones’
Department looks to migration
Test and Trace spends £6.7m on Microsoft licences
Programme signs contract for cloud products
Cognizant wins twin deals worth £150m as HMRC begins tech supplier revamp
Tax agency’s programme to ‘deliver a step change’ in its use of tech begins in earnest
Cabinet Office spends £4.7m on Microsoft licensing deal
Contract signed under terms of public sector-wide MoU
DVLA takes advantage of government MoU to keep Microsoft in cloud mix
Deal signed under public sector-agreement put in place last year
"The inflection point is here": how Covid is driving digital transformation in health
It’s been one of the most challenging years for healthcare providers, but Salesforce sees lasting change from accelerated digital transformation
Test and Trace signs £9m one-year AWS deal
Contract – which is not signed under the terms of the public sector-wide OGVA – covers provision of cloud services
The largest ever UK public sector cloud transformation unlocks cost savings and innovation
Cloud-based applications can provide ways for agencies and departments to innovate and operate in new ways, as the past year has highlighted they must, writes Oracle
EXCL: Government agreement offers public sector up to 20% discount on AWS hosting
PublicTechnology can reveal the terms of a public sector-wide MoU, under which more than contracts worth more than £300m have already been awarded
UK players line up against US heavyweights on £750m hyperscale cloud framework
Four UK firms to be given the chance to compete with US giants
DWP to move Universal Credit data-analytics platform to AWS cloud in £2.5m deal
Department to move system for analysing Universal Credit information to public cloud
Unwrapping government’s £300m Amazon package
Since a public sector-wide agreement with AWS was introduced six months ago, departments have signed contracts worth hundreds of millions with the cloud firm. PublicTechnology takes a closer look.
HMRC renegotiates £94m AWS deal
Department replaces existing arrangement with contract under new terms
Avoid Infrastructure Paralysis: Six benefits of moving legacy Oracle workloads to the cloud
There are many reasons to keep your Oracle workloads running on local servers. But there are even more reasons to move them to the cloud as part of a wider digital transition strategy. Six Degrees gives six benefits of moving legacy Oracle workloads to the cloud.
DHSC expands Test and Trace cloud support deal to improve data flow
Extra £367k added to deal in support of isolation payments
MoJ signs up for £8m Amazon account
Department signs deal for access to business account