[LINK] UK Gov: Own Cloud, VoIP & Open Source

[Martin Barry]

$quoted_author = "Bernard Robertson-Dunn" ;
> 
> stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> > UK Government to set up own cloud computing system: 
> >
> > Cloud computing could save up to £3.2bn a year, says Cabinet Office
>    
> No it didn't.
> 
> The whole strategy is supposed to save up to £3.2bn a year.
> 
> The strategy includes cloud computing as a "key enabler" but it's really 
> only standardised infrastructure - there's no suggestion of elasticity, 
> a necessary feature that would make it a cloud.

While reading it all I could think of was "this is just virtualisation, not
cloud".

They may build the infrastructure with elasticity but without major
development of the applications to take advantage of these capabilities a
lot of the gains will come from just the virtualisation subset of "cloud".

cheers
Marty