Technology evolution leads to things becoming smaller. But datacentres are difficult to shrink after huge multi-million pound construction projects. But as a result of virtualisation technology the amount of space required to house servers is less than in the past.
This leaves space that is redundant. Unless businesses open up raw computing power to other companies that [...]

I wrote an article recently in silicon.com mentioning Steria in the context of how the UK government is likely to explore further offshoring once the election is complete.
Now the leader debates are underway and we are about to get a real taste of what the leaders say about the future of the public sector in [...]

Perhaps the best example to use when talking about sustainability and performance is that of public sector organisations. Local government is a great example. Being part of the government they have to be seen to be green. They also have to work on a shoestring and provide a high level of service.
Recently, I was at the [...]

News that former Civil Servant Gerry Grimstone will review the possibility of creating private service providers from government departmental resources could change the outsourcing sector in coming years.
After being tasked with making money from government assets by the Treasury Grimstone is considering transforming the back office processing resources, of government departments, into private companies. These [...]

While the concept and aspiration of Green IT has become a much more prevalent topic of debate over the last two years the nature of the debate has in itself created a distraction from the full potential. For example technology vendors have increasingly used Green capabilities to promote their latest offerings and typically publications on [...]

President Barack Obama’s recently appointed Chief Information Officer, 34 year old Vivek Kundra, faces an enormous task as he is charged with helping the administration deliver its programme through effective deployment of technology.
He is currently on leave after the FBI raided the office he occupied in his previous role as chief technology officer for the [...]

A couple of weeks back, Leslie Gadman from London South Bank University posted a great blog here on Exchange. It dropped into the archive far too quickly because we had a lot of posts going up at that time, so I’d like to draw your attention to the original blog post once again, and also [...]

Over the coming months we expect to be discussing a variety of issues including many relating to the use of IT by both the UK’s public and private sectors with particular emphasis on its application to B2G and B2B Procurements where we are seeing some of the most fundamental and far reaching structural and strategic [...]