Accelerating the Journey to Cloud - delegate feedback
The information below is from a survey of delegates at the Public Sector Entreprise ICT conference on 5th November 2013.
Q1 - Where are you on your journey to Cloud?
Q2 - What are the blockers for the adoption of Cloud?
Delegates were asked to list the key issues that provide a barrier to moving to Cloud. The feedback is grouped by subject:
Detailed feedback was:
Security including data security
- concerns about data security
- GCHQ - BIL3
- il3 security requirements
- secuity and matutity
- secure accredited services
- security (mentioned six times)
- security and management (mentioned four times)
- security assurance
- where is my data stored and mirrored
- worries about security and confidentiality
Business models - current and future
- collaboration across gov agencies
- contractual constraints with existing suppliers
- don't understand it enough yet
- existing commercial arrangements
- existing commercial ways of working / practice
- existing contracts
- finance - locked into contract until 2015
- funding
- inflexibility of licensing line of business apps
- not enough local authority revenue budget
- outsourcing
- support models
- sweating current investments
- unclear commercial model
Managing change and new operating models
- culture change
- How to do SIAM
- outsourced supplier transformation road map timescales
- size of organisation
- skills
Other blocks
- CIO
- external network links
- insufficient local govt apps
- network performance
- not enough performance
- PSN
- PSN - not on demand
Thank you
Thank you to all who took part in the survey and provided feedback. These survey was supported by:
To get in touch, click the following link:
gcloud@atos.net
To take a look at the Atos, Canopy and Worldline products that the public sector can buy directly from the G-Cloud Cloud Store today, use the following links
http://govstore.service.gov.uk/cloudstore/search/?q=atos
http://govstore.service.gov.uk/cloudstore/search/?q=canopy
http://govstore.service.gov.uk/cloudstore/search/?q=worldline
