The Government and Cloud
summary
UK public IT spends about $25 billion a year across roughly 140 data centers and the g‑cloud plan aims to rationalize them into private, community and hybrid clouds over about a decade. Virtualization (VMs) is treated as infrastructure; projects use open source stacks (user‑mode Linux, Xen) and a prototype component repository/app store model. Several thousand VMs run in production with no breakout incidents, but GCHQ requires physical segregation for high impact levels so cloud bursting doesn’t work for top‑secret services; procurement law remains the main barrier.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 2:30NIST's Cloud, on a cube
- 3:32G-Cloud view of the stack
- 4:10Possible G-Cloud architecture
- 5:44G-Cloud maturity model
- 7:33Some public cloud services will suitable for some pub. sec. needs
- 7:55A cloud for each Impact Level (IL)
- 9:38Security summary
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