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Enfield sees the benefits of cloud and insourcing
Borough council’s head of ICT Nadira Hussain talks about getting the best out of existing digital systems, upskilling staff and recruiting to new roles with insourced services. Gill Hitchcock reports
Met Police chooses Azure as basis for ‘cloud-first’ transformation
London force to move applications and infrastructure to Microsoft public cloud environment
Crown Hosting given £500m four-year extension as CCS says risk to national infrastructure prevents competitive process
Flagship co-location deal given extra 48 months as CCS says reliance on services has exceeded...
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National technology advisor Liam Maxwell set to depart government for role at AWS
Sources indicate that one of the civil service’s most high-profile digital and technology specialists is to take a job in the commercial sector
MoD hands Rackspace £4m one-year extension to web-hosting deal
Company has run the MoD and Armed Forces Joint Server Farm since 2009
G-Cloud 10 launches with 650 new suppliers
A total of 3,505 firms are on the latest iteration of the framework with the government claiming more than 90% are SMEs
Citizens need rights for algorithm decisions to be explained – and challenged, MPs conclude
Select committee report calls for algorithms to be added to a ministerial brief, and urges departments to publicly declare where and how they use them
How to ensure cloud does not become the new outsourcing
Just as with outsourcing before it, cloud will not fix underlying operational complexity, according to Richard Blanford of Fordway
Councils reaching for the cloud, new study shows - but legacy IT keeping them grounded
Socitm/Eduserv research finds that councils are increasingly shifting to a hybrid of cloud and in-house capacity - but warns that existing deals are limiting progress
Long-awaited G-Cloud 10 gears up for July launch
Provisional timetable represents slip of one month on plans outlined at the start of March
G-Cloud 10 to open for business in June
CCS brings launch date forward by almost a year, with sources indicating Digital Outcomes deal may follow suit
BEIS seeks head of DevOps to lead new desktop and cloud strategies
Department hiring for senior development role
Crown Hosting CEO: ‘We have taken away all the cloud excuses’
PublicTechnology talks to Steve Hall about the framework’s achievements so far, its ambitions for its last year, and the secret to a successful public-private joint venture
SMEs gain a greater share as Digital Marketplace spending tops £3bn
Government figures reveal that 48% of revenue has gone to smaller firms
‘This does not feel like a good thing’ - G-Cloud suppliers see opportunity and alarm in framework’s extension
Providers ambivalent as CCS and GDS head into a crucial period - one that will bring a potential £1.5bn opportunity, but lots of uncertainty too
Leicester to move electronic documents from central storage to line-of-business systems
Council appoints provider to convert many documents to PDFs
NHS looks to move data-analytics platform into the cloud
NHS Business Services Authority issues RFI seeking feedback on potential benefits and challenges of moving Oracle-based system off premises
HMRC chief defends tax agency’s data storage deal with Amazon Web Services
Agreement means that HMRC ‘has got out of the data business’, MPs told
‘We default to frameworks, but there are many other models’ – CCS looks to the future
With five major IT contracts set to go live in the space of nine months, the government’s procurement arm is seeking to evolve
One-on-one – Digital Marketplace boss discusses plans to expand the platform internationally
Warren Smith also opens up on how the launch of the Crown Marketplace will reshape central government procurement
DfE invests in cloud platforms and looks to build out DevOps credentials
Department awards duo of contracts designed to help it create and deploy digital services
Why field service management is vital for public sector organisations
Kirona explains what field service is and why public sector organisations need to implement an effective field service management solution
After long gap, GDS vows to resume quarterly publication of Digital Marketplace spend data
Digital Marketplace Director says delay down to migration of data and reaffirms commitment to openness
Government's SME digital spend tops £1bn
Government claims £1.39 in every £3 it spends on digital and cloud is going to smaller firms