Cloud Tech News

Cloud computing has touched many industries and is increasingly being adopted in many ways, from easily accessible data storage to business application solutions and reduction in hardware investment; and the healthcare industry is no exception.

Cloud delivery and procurement is still a central plank in global public sector procurement. The G-Cloud Framework has been running for the best part of a year, having launched in April 2012, so now is a good time to revisit the UK government’s flagship procurement initiative, CloudStore.

How does the public sector’s inability to accept that the private sector has to make a profit scupper idea of "strategic partnerships" and their flawed reality?

Cloud computing has proven to have many advantages, and now it seems that it is also helping medical science reduce its costs.

Many procedures for government procurement can be traced back through earlier stages of technology development. But the technology sector is changing at an increasing pace and procurement is struggling to keep up.>

Faced with a need to find huge cost reductions the Province of Ontario is in the same place as many governments throughout the world – They’ve shouldered the debt to see us through the financial meltdown and now need to be smart about how they digest what they’ve taken on.

The Drummond Report is another political exercise focused on the growing public sector deficits, Ontario in this case, and the author makes a number of recommendations for cost-saving measures to bring this situation under control.

Providing a sound platform for people to interact and engage with services, is social CRM the way forward for government?