Whitehall’s G-Cloud: Hype or hope?

The British government batting hard for the cloud, which it says ill make everything better: lower-cost computing, faster deliver, greater efficiencies and less big vendor lock in. The policy makers are in full flow but so is the hype and branding. I speak to Microsoft’s national technology officer and experts on cloud data lock about what – and who – is missing in G-Cloud and Cloudstore, and whether No. 10′s going too far.