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Government Cloud, Government Procurement
New Zealand builds business case for G-cloud
New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs is assessing industry capabilities and service options for G-cloud services, while tapping into pay-as-you-go, on-demand infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) delivery models.
This G-cloud initiative, being refined under an industry-wide “registration of interest” program, will support the administration’s business case for cloud services, with key findings to be shared with ICT ministers in April 2012.
The Department of Internal Affairs cautions this latest move is not a “procurement exercise,” but rather an exploration of best-practice models and technology solutions to help agencies migrate to the cloud.
Future cloud deployment will support New Zealand’s whole-of-government programs, as well as service delivery.
Peter Mersi, acting chief executive, Department of Internal Affairs, said in an earlier statement the New Zealand government’s procurement syndicate will save an estimated NZ$50 million (US$40 million) to NZ $250 million (US$200 million) over 10 years.
“This is just the beginning – we’ll be seeing more initiatives like this rolled out in the next 12 months,” Mr Mersi said.
New Zealand’s procurement syndicate is led by the Department of Internal Affairs and the Ministry for Economic Development.
An IaaS platform enables cost-conscious agencies to tackle core and common computing needs in the cloud, without associated overheads.
New Zealand’s IaaS model was developed by the Department of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Economic Development, together with participation by departments including Conservation, Inland Revenue, Land Information New Zealand, the Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand Defence Force, New Zealand Police and New Zealand Transport Agency.
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On 29 February 2012 Dr Steve Hodgkinson wrote:
Go Kiwis go! This is a good and practical approach to working out how to drive public value from cloud computing. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.
I commented on this in NZ CIO magazine: http://cio.c…>
It is encouraging to see that the New Zealand government is making practical steps towards cloud enablement through the IaaS panel contracts and the pending development of a business case for the adoption of cloud computing services. Let’s hope this case is developed with a strategic perspective and doesn’t become bogged down in old style socialist central planning thinking.
Cloud computing is an agency empowering delivery model - enabling agencies to source ICT capabilities from the capitalist cloud and free themselves from the moribund sludge of slow moving and inflexible whole-of-government ICT strategies.