{"id":1638,"date":"2012-05-18T10:22:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T10:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/may\/18\/uks-g-cloud-may-struggle-hit-targets-says-report\/"},"modified":"2012-05-18T10:22:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T10:22:32","slug":"uks-g-cloud-may-struggle-to-hit-targets-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/uks-g-cloud-may-struggle-to-hit-targets-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s G-Cloud may struggle to hit targets, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report from VMware has revealed the adoption of G-Cloud is not progressing as expected with many senior public sector IT staff sceptical about the process.<\/p>\n<p>VMware interviewed nearly 200 IT heavyweights about G-Cloud, the UK government&rsquo;s cloud service which will attempt to reduce IT costs by &pound;200m per year and have 50% of IT spending coming through public cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there wasn&rsquo;t universal agreement on whether these targets will be hit, with only 30% saying the &pound;200m cost-saving was attainable and a whopping 63% saying the government would struggle to achieve their plan of half IT spending through the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Overall consensus was that people were split on G-Cloud, with 45% of respondents saying they were in some way positive about G-Cloud compared to 41% who were indifferent or negative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Cloud Store &#8211; an app store launched in February designed to make buying IT services more &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report from VMware has revealed the adoption of G-Cloud is not progressing as expected with many senior public sector IT staff sceptical about the process.<br \/>\nVMware interviewed nearly 200 IT heavyweights about G-Cloud, the UK government&rsquo;s cloud s&#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-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","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=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}