Cloud adoption has seen strong adoption within the public sector, with the month of March seeing record figures for service adoption via the G-Cloud.

Services procured by public sector agencies through the CloudStore portal and G-Cloud framework during March more than matched all of the services procured through2012.

Sales reached £6.5 million through the G-Cloud in the month of March, an increase of 300 percent from February 2013.

The government have set the target of transitioning half of all public sector IT procurement onto cloud based procurement services by 2015.

Current spending on IT procurement is believed to around £18 billion. Total sales through the public sector procurement framework have now reached just over £18 million

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