Word on the cloud-based street this summer was that the government's G-Cloud IT project had been canned, but that's not true. So is the project really on track?
As technical co-lead on phase two of the G-Cloud project, I helped draft a detailed proposal for the G-Cloud based on the core principals that it would be a collection of cloud infrastructures, services and applications, all bound together by open standards and with an app store at the heart. The unifying network would be the Public Sector Network, the proposed successor to the Government Secure Intranet, which allows public sector workers from more than 150 government departments access to a common network.
