{"id":10838,"date":"2014-05-26T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/27\/g-cloud-5-here-whats-improved-and-what-still-needs-be-done\/"},"modified":"2014-05-26T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T23:47:07","slug":"g-cloud-5-is-here-whats-improved-and-what-still-needs-to-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/g-cloud-5-is-here-whats-improved-and-what-still-needs-to-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"G-Cloud 5 is here: What\u2019s improved, and what still needs to be done?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Updated 1819 GMT:<\/strong> Earlier this morning the UK government confirmed the fifth iteration of the G-Cloud cloud store was open, with 1132 suppliers making the cut and 1518 in total.<\/p>\n<p>The list of suppliers for G-Cloud 5 was revealed at the end of last week, with plans to go live on Friday but for last minute bug fixes, as an official blog post confirmed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>CloudStore is open. http:\/\/t.co\/MAHjtNA9dp There are now 1518 suppliers (885 SMEs) with over 17,000 services available.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; G-Cloud (@G_Cloud_UK) May 27, 2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The latest round of procurement for G-Cloud had opened at the end of February, with Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude aiming at the time for a further &pound;100m to be spent through the platform by May 2015 and outlining the various opportunities provided to small, innovative IT suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>Yet a lot of the time the UK&rsquo;s government cloud initiative has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 1819 GMT: Earlier this morning the UK government confirmed the fifth iteration of the G-Cloud cloud store was open, with 1132 suppliers making the cut and 1518 in total.<br \/>\nThe list of suppliers for G-Cloud 5 was revealed at the end of last week, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}