UK Government signs procurement memo of understanding with Salesforce, but are more needed to prevent a cloud oligopoly?
Salesforce is the latest cloud provider to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK Government.
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Salesforce is the latest cloud provider to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK Government.
Last – but certainly not least – to sign an MoU was Amazon Web Services, which announced in November that it had agreed a three-year arrangement with CCS dubbed the One Government Value Agreement (OGVA). In addition to the savings offered on the vendor’s services, AWS has also committed to providing cloud computing training to 6,000 civil servants via a “digital skills fund”. Chris Hayman, the firm’s UK public sector director, says: “We are working with OGVA customers to build customised training programmes that are free of charge for staff and are designed to provide them wi...