G-Cloud is driving US Cloud services providers to set up data centres in the UK, the latest being Oracle.
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Cloud Computing has the capacity to revolutionise the provision of information at the point of care by offering users the option to only pay for the compute power
Policy-makers need to work harder to create a level playing field for Cloud services adoption, mindful of the potential type I and type II procurement errors.
The Cabinet Office has published the third iteration of the G-Cloud framework, boasting an additional 368 suppliers to bring the total number of providers in the government Cloudstore to 708.
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