A new report from Socitm, the Society of IT Management, has argued Cloud Computing must be the central theme for ICT strategies if organisations are to provide cheaper and better public services– and organisations in the public sector should hold off outsourcing ICT in order to “reap full benefit”.
The report, Heading into the Cloud, was published last week, said any delay or compromise to making Cloud Computing adoption at the heart of ICT strategies “would probably be ill-advised at present”.
Socitm’s report also said public sector organisations were in a position to shift from a provider to consumer of Cloud services, arguing the Public Sector Network is a key infrastructure to support Cloud applications.
Despite this, added the report, a lack of applications currently available on the network would mean a mixed economy of internally hosted and Cloud-hosted applications would exist for some time.
