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UK Government Ditches Cloud Concept, Consolidates Data Centers

Posted by Roblimo on from the the-cloud-is-not-always-a-good-idea dept.

twoheadedboy writes "HP's UK managing director says the Government has ditched its cloud computing project. A brainchild of the Labour Government and announced last year, the G-Cloud (Government Cloud) was supposed to bring significant savings. The HP guy says the government now has other ideas about how to save money on IT."

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  1. Re:The cloud has always been a cloudy concept to m by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seems like the UK government has been building castles in the sky, maybe?

    Reminds me of a Rita Rudner joke: "Neurotics build castles in the sky, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them."

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    It must have been something you assimilated. . . .