The British government passes to cloud services of Google

At the beginning of June, 2020 the government of Great Britain announced partnership with Google which should help the organizations of public sector of all sizes to benefit by new technologies. Cooperation will facilitate access to cloud computing to public institutions, many of which continue to experience difficulties with digital transformation.

Municipal authorities, the state broadcasting companies, charitable organizations and organizations in the field of health care thanks to this partnership will be able quicker to use cloud services of Google and to receive considerable discounts from corporation.

The British government passes to cloud services of Google

Partnership is based on the memorandum of understanding between Google Cloud and UK Crown Commercial Service (CCS) — the executive agency of the Cabinet of Great Britain.

Along with the cloud services (including the leading platform for hybrid and the Anthos multicloud environments), Google Cloud will provide to public institutions access to infrastructure, analytics, artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning, building tools of applications, security and joint work.

CCS signs commercial agreements which help the organizations of public sector to save time and money on purchase of daily goods and services — Simon Qie, the chief executive of CCS commented. — This memorandum opens for our clients large-scale business perspectives, showing a role of CCS in assistance to the public sector in service of citizens of Great Britain by more innovation methods.[1]

The analyst of CCS Insight Nick McQuire considers that Google Cloud lags behind the competing Amazon and Microsoft in the British cloud market and it is considered "the reserve supplier", but after the contract with local authorities the situation can exchange in a root.

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