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Government ICT 2020 speaking slides

23 January 2020

Our Managing Director David Turner spoke today at Government ICT 2020 at London's QEII Centre, sharing Lessons learned from six years of cloud technology transformation in Government.

Government ICT 2020

6 January 2020

MSC Digital will be exhibiting at the Government ICT Conference at the QEII Centre in London on Thursday 23 January. The conference is free to attend for anybody who works in the public or voluntary sector.

AWS and Brexit

2 September 2019

AWS has announced that they don’t expect the UK leaving the European Union (“Brexit”) to have any impact on their customers’ use of AWS. Customers will be able to transfer data into and out of AWS Regions throughout Europe (including into and out of the UK) just as they did before Brexit.

China's Shagang buys final quarter of Global Switch

30 August 2019

Chinese steel giant Jiangsu Shagang Group has bought 24 percent of data center operator Global Switch, and become the biggest stakeholder in the company, a leading independent carrier-neutral colocation provider. Shagang is now completely under Chinese ownership.

Scottish government launches new cloud procurement framework

7 August 2019

The Scottish government has published a new cloud procurement framework with 14 providers approved to bid for contracts estimated to be worth £30m.

HMRC begins prep for major cloud move

7 August 2019

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is pressing ahead with a major move towards the use of cloud services and has agreed a deal to work with a migration expert.

The internet is not just OK, it should be first

30 June 2019

The public sector has been on a journey away from private networks and towards the use of the internet and cloud-based solutions for a few years . . .

Nobody Ever Got Fired for Hiring…

27 July 2018

As part of its efforts to overhaul its massive £1.4 billion IT contract with IBM, DEFRA has awarded its Hosting and Application Support Services contract to . . . another giant supplier . . .

'No evidence' UK.gov has done much to break up IT outsourcing

18 January 2018

The scandal around Carillion has put the UK government's addiction to outsourcing in the spotlight. Yet it is a practice that has been going on for many decades - not least in public sector IT.