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Foreign Office gets green light for £94m Oracle upgrade
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No intention of ‘watering down’ Cloud First policy, minister claims
GDS review concluded that moving to US-style nomenclature would be ‘confusing’
Bidding opens on £2bn G-Cloud 12
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HMRC awards £3.5m deals to move case management into AWS cloud
Tax agency picks two suppliers to deliver ‘infrastructure and technology upgrade'
HMRC chief gives thumbs up to five-year cloud migration programme
Assessment of long-term tech overhaul concludes that scheme is on track and represents good value
NHS moves major systems to AWS cloud
Two national services have been migrated to cloud environment
Bank of England looks to public cloud future
Institution seeks partner to assist with construction of new infrastructure
Leeds seeks partner to build ‘community cloud’ for use across public sector
Local authority is working with NHS bodies to construct shared infrastructure
North Lanarkshire’s plan for a future-proof council
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Ex-GDS and DIT digital leader Holly Ellis joins AWS
Formerly head of DDaT skills across government, Ellis has taken on public sector-focused post at cloud heavyweight
Transparency concerns raised over NHS deal with Amazon Alexa
Privacy International criticises decision to redact details of the health service’s agreement with the smart assistant
Conservative manifesto: five tech takeaways
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‘Policy mandarins don’t get that engaged in reform’ – Francis Maude
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GDS: ‘Cloud first is here to stay’
Digital agency pledges to ‘keep the policy as it stands’