HMRC has employed the G-Cloud to host data in a move to centralised storage and represents the first major department to employ data storage within the cloud.

The movement from office storage to cloud hosting is expected to be completed by the spring of 2013.

The transition to cloud data storage is expected to save the department over £1million in cost savings, and according to Phil Pavitt, CIO of HMRC, “will increase reliability and security of HMRC’s internal IT services”, and “is a major step for HMRC in moving away from traditional ways of working with large service providers.”