{"id":9985,"date":"2014-01-14T00:47:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T00:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jan\/14\/cracking-g-cloud-commoditisation-conundrum\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T00:47:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T00:47:23","slug":"cracking-the-g-cloud-commoditisation-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cracking-the-g-cloud-commoditisation-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracking the G-Cloud commoditisation conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anniversaries are always a good point to take a step back, reflect on the past and think about what the future holds. That is something I have done this week as we head into the third calendar year of G-Cloud by taking time out to reread the document which lays out the government&rsquo;s Cloud First Strategy as published by the Cabinet Office in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Looking through the document it is striking how frequently it refers to a vision for commodity IT services and a move away from customised solutions as part of a drive for lower costs and greater competition. But is this move towards commodity buying really likely to change buyer behaviour and deliver those benefits?<\/p>\n<p>As things stand right now, I am not so sure.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;d even go so far as to say that commoditisation could end up being a barrier to the delivery of lower &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anniversaries are always a good point to take a step back, reflect on the past and think about what the future holds. That is something I have done this week as we head into the third calendar year of G-Cloud by taking time out to reread the document w&#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-9985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9985","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=9985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}