A talk delivered by Andrew Hawkins at Cloud Control: Implementing Cloud Computing 2014, a seminar hosted by Civil Service World and Eduserv. It presents the findings from our research into the current state of cloud adoption within government. You can read the full report here: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/insight/reports/Delivering-Cloud-First-report

1. www.eduserv.org.uk
Experiences of UK
Government Cloud Adoption
Research results
Andrew Hawkins, Sales Director, Eduserv
@andrewhawkins65 #cswcloud

2. Eduserv
14 Years
Not-for-Profit
“IT for Public Good”
Cloud Hosting
Managed Services
Web Development
Consultancy

3. Who we work with

4. Our survey
829 responses
69 government organisations

5. Where we are

6. 60%
…of current activity focuses
on low hanging fruit like isolated
line-of-business applications
It’s still very early days

7. 40%
have disaster recovery/back up in cloud
have software in cloud
More sophisticated cloud solutions are in the minority

8. 40%
57% say operational efficiency is
the main reason for cloud adoption

9. 40%
Only 10% using cloud to improve public services

10. 40%
say their experience
of cloud IT is poor
described problems
with accessing data
or applications

11. What’s stopping us

12. 40%
Only 27% say their cloud adoption is due to Cabinet
Office policy
G-Cloud impact is still gaining
momentum

13. 40%
American National Security Agency
revelations have changed behaviour
around cloud use
49% say they have concerns over
cloud security
Security is still a concern
32%

14. What we need

15. 40%
75% say stakeholders don’t understand benefits of cloud
Only 49% of government organisations say they have the
skills they need
88% say a lack of training on cloud
is an issue for their organisation
More knowledge and skills

16. 40%
Only 54% have the project management skills they need
20% say they are nowhere near
Better project management

17. 40%
83% of those that know about DevOps say it would
improve cloud migration
Yet only 10% government professionals have heard of it
Dev Ops to open the door

18. Concluding thoughts
Things have progressed significantly in the past two years
Majority of cloud deployments to date are tactical
Satisfaction is mixed
Knowledge and Skills needs work – this is a collaborative
task – Cabinet Office, Suppliers, Departments and Agencies
We all have work to do!

19. Delivering Cloud First report
Click here to visit the Eduserv website and download the
full research report.