Forecast for council IT: more cloud
Staffordshire IT chief Sander Kristel discusses his first experience of using the G-Cloud procurement service, and explains why he believes cloud will play an increasingly important role in public-sector ICT
G-Cloud, the initiative designed to entrench cloud procurement across the public sector, appears to be gathering some momentum after a shaky start, allowing more and more government bodies to make procurement...
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