Government will not cancel contracts to hasten G Cloud

ZDNet - The government will not cancel long-term IT contracts in order to introduce the G Cloud, according to the Cabinet Office officer responsible.

Andy Tait, the deputy director of the G Cloud initiative, datacentre consolidation and the application-store programme, said that the government will wait for a "natural break" in contracts before replacing them with "G Cloud capable services".

Speaking at the Socitm 2010 conference in Brighton on Tuesday, Tait said that the government believed it could save 30 percent in this area by using the G Cloud.