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South Belfast businesses, Anaeko,was recognised as an InterTradeIreland Business Ambassador at a special ceremony in Parliament Buildings. The event, which was hosted by Alastair Ross MLA, Assembly Private Secretary for the Department of Enterprise,

 

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Over the course of the next five years, Gartner believe enterprises will spend $112 billion cumulatively software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) [Gartner11]. Among the reasons given was a desire to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for products and services. A survey conducted by Gartner in 2H10 in EMEA with 90 respondents, established the primary reasons SaaS was being considered. The most common reason selected (with 48 out of 90 respondents) was: "…considered to be more cost-effective from a TCO standpoint than on-premises solutions."

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As Anaeko is on the run up to presenting at Think G-Cloud in London later this month on the 18th June at the Business Design Centre, Islington, the buzz around what Anaeko can bring to shared services providers is building!

Hear what PR Newswire UK has to say about Anaeko, Shared Services and Think G-Cloud!

After Anaeko Great success at Think G - Cloud event in London earlier this month, with some great feedback on Shared Services within Government Cloud.

Anaeko have published an article in Think. Cloud for Government magazine based on the importance of a Service Management tool-set to support the implementation ok UK Government's IT Strategy.

Government Organizations need to Implement a Service Management tool-set to support the implementation of UK Government’s IT Strategy

Between 2008 and 2009 the Labour Government spent round £16 billion on IT. A series of measures are now being taken by the coalition government to cut costs and reduce the size of its IT projects. These include:

• Data Centre Rationalization

There will be significant rationalisation of the governments data centre estate in order to implement a commodity approach to hosting. This will lead to increase utilisation and efficiency, thus reducing CO2 emissions, accommodation and energy costs.

• Shared Services

The Next Generation Shared Services Strategic Plan outlines how government organizations will work together to share functions such as HR, procurement, finance and payroll to deliver potential savings of between £400 and £600 million a year in administration costs.

• New SME Focus

On the 11th February 2011 the Prime Minister announced a package of measures designed to make sure that SMEs can successfully compete for Government business. There is a target that 25% of Central Government procurement spend should go to SMEs by the end of this Parliament in 2015.

• Public Cloud First Strategy

In future, when procuring new or existing services, public sector organizations will have to consider and fully evaluate potential cloud solutions first. Many of these solutions will be available for reuse from the Government CloudStore.

• Disaggregation of Large SI Projects

The Government ICT Strategy published in March 2011 stated that where possible, the Government will move away from expensive, long-duration bespoke solutions to become consumers of widely available, ever improving mass-market products and solutions. There is a presumption in the strategy that no project will be greater than £100 million. As G-Cloud services and other frameworks become the primary sourcing route for IT across government, and the number of providers extends even further, there will be a disintegration of current, traditional integration services, where providers have end to end responsibility for significant portions of the government estates.

The Service Management Challenge.

Come visit Anaeko at  Think G-Cloud 2013 on Tuesday 18th June at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London.

 

The implications of global warming and the sustainability of industries that consume significant energy and other resources have become more of a central concern in industrialised countries especially since the signing of the Kyota Protocol in 1997. The computer sector responded initially with programs such as Energy Star to minimise consumer computer energy usage.

Are you Measuring your Green KPI’s like Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) = Cooling + Power + Lighting + IT/ IT?

 

Is your organisation green?

The following Paragraphs are taken from the Government Design Manual:

Over the course of the next five years, Garner believe enterprises will spend $112 billion cumulatively software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS)  [Gartner11].  Among the reasons given was a desire to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for products and services. A survey conducted by Gartner in 2H10 in EMEA with 90 respondents, established the primary reasons SaaS was being considered. The most common reason selected (with 48 out of 90 respondents) was: "…considered to be more cost-effective from a TCO standpoint than on-premises solutions."