Eduserv, the not for profit public sector cloud provider, has won a contract with Bristol City Council worth an estimated £1.5m to migrate its IT infrastructure to the cloud.<\/p>\n
The contract sees Eduserv take over the day to day running of the council’s IT, with future IT services being procured in a much more flexible manner, ensuring the council doesn’t own much of its ICT.<\/p>\n
Bristol City Council is planning on cutting about £90m in IT costs, as local governments continue to move their resources to the cloud.<\/p>\n
“Like every council, we are faced with the challenge of delivering high quality services while reducing our costs by 30%”, said Steven Pendleton, service manager of commissioning and supplier relationship management at Bristol City Council.<\/p>\n
He added: “The ICT market is changing rapidly, becoming much more commoditised and consumer led, where significant economies of scale are now possible.<\/p>\n
“Moving our IT estate to the cloud will give us a more flexible cost-effective resource which can adapt to our changing needs.”<\/p>\n
With recent news that the Digital Marketplace, the updated one stop shop for government cloud services, is close to being prepared, the portents look good according to Eduserv, a long recognised G-Cloud vendor.<\/p>\n