{"id":8312,"date":"2013-07-19T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/jul\/19\/nsw-state-government-in-australia-mobilizes-cloud-services-pilots\/"},"modified":"2013-07-19T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T14:45:00","slug":"nsw-state-government-in-australia-mobilises-cloud-services-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/nsw-state-government-in-australia-mobilises-cloud-services-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW state government in Australia mobilises cloud services pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director, Public Sector Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New South Wales state government in Australia is taking visionary but practical steps towards cloud services adoption via a program of pilot projects. The projects recognize the need to treat cloud services as an emerging trend to be investigated and evaluated hands-on. It is a practical organizational learning exercise, not an ideological quest or a whole-of-government &ldquo;grand plan&rdquo;. <\/p>\n<p>Cloud services adoption is best driven at an agency-by-agency level with a focus on the promotion of early adoption, the realisation of business benefits, and the rapid propagation of lessons learned and successful solutions across agencies as confidence is gained.<\/p>\n<h3>Governments need to get hands-on with cloud services<\/h3>\n<p>Government adoption of cloud services is nascent but growing. Cloud services require a change in mindset about how to approach the sourcing and management of ICT capabilities and how to apply them to drive business transformation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director, Public Sector TechnologyThe New South Wales state government in Australia is taking visionary but practical steps towards cloud services adoption via a program of pilot projects. The projects recognize the need to t&#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-8312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312","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=8312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}