By Lilia Guan
HP is the latest technology vendor to launch its Government Secure Cloud Services to the public sector.
The vendor’s enterprise services vice president, Alan Bennett said HP waited to launch its services to make sure it aligned with AGIMO’s cloud computing strategic direction.
“The journey to cloud offers agencies a clean sheet of paper without having to replace legacy systems,” he said.
“HP government Secure Cloud Services minises the risk and uncertainties of a cloud infrastructure services and delivers technology assets to run agency applications as they need them.”
The services offered by HP included, a dedicated community cloud or G-cloud environment to enable agencies to consume technology as they need without “bill shock”.
HP’s cloud services includes; secure processing capacity to meet specific agency needs; services to be delivered through a Defence Signals Directorate-certified secure gateway and hosted on infrastructure from a whole of government data centre panel provider.
Mr Bennett said HP had dedicated data centres in Australia to ensure public sector data remained within the country.
Ovum analyst, Kevin Noonan said during the briefing agencies needed to get serious about cloud computing.
“It’s no longer an issue of its coming but here it is,” he said.
However Mr Noonan acknowledged there were issues holding the public sector back from implementing a cloud computing strategy.
“Government agencies have to think about data sovereignty; service level agreements; ability to negotiate contracts; network security; and robustness of the value proposition,” he said.
Has your agency moved beyond the talking phase of cloud computing? Is there still confusion about what to implement?
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