• Reduce the cost and number of public sector data centres
  • Reduce the cost of duplicated back-office systems
  • Increase the efficiency of ICT delivery teams
  • Reduce the cost of ICT infrastructure support and maintenance

Government has already realised it has too many data centres, and too many servers, storage, and networking infrastructures supporting too few users. The consolidation of data centres, and the technology within those data centres, is going to be one of the major areas for budget savings across UK public services.

Local, community, regional and national shared service data centres must become a reality, and once public services are sharing the physical building, then sharing the systems and applications held in them is a natural next step.

G-Cloud is a major government initiative to create on-demand and shared ICT infrastructure across the public sector, and we will see G-Clouds springing up all over the public sector in the coming years.

Logicalis’ Shared Services Data Centre and G-Cloud Architecture lays out the physical, technology and operational architectures needed to deliver at a local, community, and regional level. Based on our PSN experience, and having created a ‘G-Cloud ready’ infrastructure in our own data centres, as well as private clouds for individual public service customers, Logicalis knows that rapid adoption of these major cost savings initiatives is possible today.

Download the Logicalis Public Sector Manifesto brochure