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Memset founder: "the G-Cloud dream is dying"
jun 16 2016
Kate Craig-Wood complains of "pitiful return" via G-Cloud and says the company has had no business from the framework since 2013 Cloud hosting provider Memset has questioned whether it is worth continuing to remain on the G-Cloud framework. A strongly-worded blog post written by the company's co-founder and managing director Kate Craig-Wood entitled "G-Cloud - the dream is dying", describes her disenchantment with the framework. Her concerns include regrets at the investments made in a data centre, security and compliance, as well as on a Public Services Network (PSN)-protected connection.
G-Cloud Dream Is ‘Dying’, Claims Founding Adopter
jun 16 2016
Early G-Cloud adopter claims framework is dying, and slams “pitiful returns”, buyer attitudes and broken app store The Government’s G-Cloud has been very publicly slammed by one of its most enthusiastic early supporters, cloud hosting company Memset.
Cloud supplier Memset threatens to quit G-Cloud
jun 15 2016
Having helped design G-Cloud, Memset managing director Kate Craig-Wood says she has 'finally had enough' of the framework, citing low sales and lack of public sector buy-in.
Early supplier on UK.gov's G-Cloud slams 'dying' framework
jun 15 2016
G-Cloud pioneer and small hosting biz Memset has slammed the framework as failing in its original vision to "punch through archaic government procurement requirements" with an online “App Store”. Founder of Memset Kate Craig-Wood got involved in the project in 2009 as technical architecture co-lead prior to the framework being launched. In a blog post, she wrote: "We passionately believed in the dream of G-Cloud and kept doing so despite the goalposts being repeatedly moved, the marketplace continuing not to function properly and buyers continuing to behave in the same old ways."
GDS to publish PSN performance data
may 29 2016
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has started to publish performance data obtained from the Public Services Network (PSN). GDS says the data is to be made public in an attempt to make things “simpler and clearer” for public sector PSN customers around the UK.
Brexit: Should the UK IT industry stay or leave?
may 27 2016
With less than a month to go until the all-important Brexit vote, politicians and the mass media have largely succeeded in turning the entire matter into an overblown, over-dramatic and self-indulgent soap opera. It's now reaching the point where many people are just utterly confused as to what choosing ‘In' or ‘Out' would fix or damage - a giant Ker-Plunk tower of promises, threats, myths and spin. To try to gain some clarity Computing asked a number of IT industry leaders: Is it best for the IT industry if we stay or go? Kate Craig-Wood is founder and MD of cloud hosting firm Memset, and offered a number of reasons for staying in the EU.
G-Cloud scope being 'tightened up' for next iteration
may 17 2016
The next iteration of G-Cloud will see its biggest Lot "tightened up" to reduce any crossover with the new Digital Outcomes and Specialists (DOS) framework. G-Cloud 8 is due to open for applications today ahead of a scheduled go-live date of 1 August and it will be the first iteration of the framework to launch since the DOS framework started. The Digital Marketplace – the umbrella organisation for both – said that with that in mind, the scope for G-Cloud will be tightened up to give it even more focus on cloud.
What is behind the slowdown in public-sector sales of ‘true cloud’ services via G-Cloud?
mar 30 2016
A recent slowdown in sales of software, infrastructure and platform services through the G-Cloud procurement framework suggests public-sector cloud adoption could be entering a new phase. Speaking at the recent Think Cloud for Digital Government event in central London, Jessica Figueras, chief analyst at public-sector IT watcher Kable, revealed details of an analysis she had carried out on the last few months of G-Cloud sales data.
AWS and Microsoft UK datacentre plans could upset SME-rich Digital Marketplace, Kable warns
mar 22 2016
SME G-Cloud providers told to brace themselves for increasing competitive threats from AWS, Microsoft and Oracle once their UK datacentres open
Will the Investigatory Powers Bill enable hackers to access backdoors?
mar 16 2016
As the Investigatory Powers Bill wends its way through parliament, questions have been asked not just about the loss of privacy it will mean to anyone connecting to the internet in the UK, there are fears that calls by the government for backdoors in encryption could be counterproductive. While it stops short of banning end-to-end encryption, it will require tech firms to allow backdoor access to police and security services. There are fears that this could make such activities as online banking hard, if not impossible, to do safely. The trouble with having a backdoor such as this is that if the security services can decrypt secure communication, so can others, and most likely that means hackers and other criminals.
