Wednesday 10 August 2011

Report of government spending may lead to the adoption of virtualization

A critical report on government spending in the public sector in the UK may encourage the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing.

Choose the European Parliament Committee on Public Administration (PASC), the general report "obscene amounts of public money" and accused the government spending for development and implementation of new computer systems are described in the depths of his "appalling." The report's findings in the cloud computing environment, and virtualization experts have identified opportunities for cost savings has to offer. They are a more powerful way to reduce spending, the government urged to explore these possibilities.

"Government IT projects are certainly losing money on systems running the application to stop the need for a more intelligent approach," Hamish Macarthur, founder of Macarthur Stroud International is a consulting firm and research said. "Virtualization is one of the options."

Pay-as-a-to-use business model, cloud computing can also help reduce government spending, Andy Burton, clouds, cloud computing advocates best practices for the Forum of Industry, said the president.

"Rather than the traditional [operating expenses] payment model, [capital expenditures] to pay to use the model, the government will benefit not only to pay for services," he said. "Departments have reduced the cost of the advance."

A low cost of ownership of infrastructure re-investment and ensure that government departments do more with less. Cloud computing, as well as to promote the use of technical personnel more effectively and efficiently.

"Labour costs, it represents 70% of the computer operating alone," said Burton. "Standalone application that cloud computing is the traditional IT resources and eliminates the time required to ensure the effectiveness of spending."

Virtualization is already important to note that the government made to specific areas of IT infrastructure. A number of ministries - Transport for London, Ministry of Labour and the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the National Police Improvement, including retirement - according to a report, a server and / or desktop virtualization, Citrix uses the Parliament earlier this year.

Learn the private sector

Government IT professionals with virtualization and cloud computing, if you're concerned about, how they reduce the efficiency gains in physical infrastructure and private sector organizations have used these technologies to search.

"They can learn a large private sector companies have consolidated its IT infrastructure," Galen Schreck, an expert in virtualization, Forrester said. "Large companies are using virtualization to reduce silos. This also contributes to a holistic view of IT infrastructure. "

Improve the government Agility

The report recommends that government IT departments PASC agile and easier to adapt to changes in programs that enable the methods used for iterative development.

"What he has done before, often with current computer systems developed by the government," committee member of Parliament in the report.

Thanks to virtualization as a core infrastructure to increase agility and infrastructure flexibility can be sure that the government, said MacArthur. The excessive dependence on a few large suppliers to the government: the inflexibility of this problem, the report refers to another topic.

"Vendors and service providers are not very flexible," said MacArthur. "Accordingly, the government teams are trying to start the deployment of new technologies. Small and medium enterprises, technology vendors, easier to implement further savings of flexibility."

Government to reduce the size of their contracts to expand the supplier base and a way to speed up the procurement process, said. The agility of IT projects, in turn, reduce the risk of major projects linked to the general, said Burton. In the long run, it is usually the "bad faith" restrictive contracts and systems sold in this way, "excess" of whistle blowing to the inefficiency of public spending, he said.

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