This ‘win’ bucks the trend within the Public Sector where use of Cloud Computing lags the Private Sector and seems unlikely to change in the near future.

With many politicians hailing a “brave new world” and the role of technology in our  economic and social development, we need to ask – are you leading by example?

A recent study by Forbes Insights, in conjunction with KPMG International – Exploring the Cloud: A Global Study of Governments Adoption of Cloud – finds that public sector use of the cloud is slow at best.

Despite the UK being one of the best places to locate Cloud Services there is more chance that the governments of Australia, Italy and Denmark will be making use of them.

Only around a quarter of the governments surveyed [2, 3] had either a cloud strategy, a proof of concept or any implementation. The research also suggests that the Public Sector lags the Private Sector considerably in these areas.

Government in the UK (and US and Canada) were amongst the laggards and concerns focused around security.

If as we are led to believe, our politicians want economic growth driven by a burgeoning IT sector, attitudes and behaviours need to change first in the Public Sector.

Our governments and public sector should be Cloud Leaders not Cloud Laggards.

We look forward to your comments.

MyKubeNetworks
www.kubenetworks.com

[1] £7m IT deal with councils secured (Herald Scotland)
[2] Australia, Italy and Denmark Lead Government Cloud Adoption (Forbes Insight)
[3] A direct excerpt from [2] “The study surveyed 429 government executives in 10 countries— Australia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.— about their cloud strategies. Responses from the global business survey of 808 executives (“Clarity in the Cloud: A Global Study of the Business Adoption of Cloud“) were referenced for context and to provide public- versus private-sector comparisons.”