You asked
The information that I require pertains to some information related to the IT department of Office for National Statistics.
- Do you have a procurement policy which supports the use of UK Government IT procurement frameworks, such as G-Cloud and Digital Outcomes and Specialists?
2. Has your organisation adopted a strategy or IT policy guidance for using:
(Please indicate yes or no for each)
- Hyperscale public cloud (e.g. AWS / Azure/ Google Cloud Platform)
- Other cloud (e.g. UK Cloud)
- Software as a Service (e.g. Office 365)
2.1. Who is responsible for each?
3. How many on-premise data centres do you own?
(In this context, a ‘data centre’ is a secure processing facility which hosts one or more IT systems)
4. How many third-party data centres do you use?
(i.e. for colocation)
5. Do you use cloud for storing data / applications?
6. Expressed in percentage terms, approximately what proportion of your data and applications are held in:
- An on-premise data centre
- A third-party data centre
- Hyperscale public cloud (e.g. AWS / Azure/ Google Cloud Platform)
- Other public cloud (e.g. UK Cloud)
- Private cloud
7. Is your IT primarily managed in-house or is it outsourced?
8. Do you share your IT infrastructure and services with any other organisation?
(i.e. do you have shared services arrangements)
9. Do you have a central IT department?
10. Who in your organisation is responsible for driving your cloud strategy?
11. If your organisation does have a cloud strategy, what are the main drivers?
(Please indicate yes or no for each)
Cost savings
Scalability
Agility
Security
Modernisation
Other (please specify):
12. In the next 12 months are you looking to procure any of the following?
(Please indicate yes or no for each)
On-premise data centre
Colocation facilities
Physical IT infrastructure
Hyperscale public cloud services (e.g. AWS / Azure/ Google Cloud Platform)
Other public cloud services (e.g. UK Cloud)
Private cloud services
Outsourced IT managed services
We said
Thank you for your request.
Please see our responses to your request as follows:
Do you have a procurement policy which supports the use of UK Government IT procurement frameworks, such as G-Cloud and Digital Outcomes and Specialists?
Yes, we predominantly use CCS frameworks such as the ones suggested in your query, unless great VFM can be obtained from other commercial routes.
Has your organisation adopted a strategy or IT policy guidance for using:
- Hyperscale public cloud (e.g. AWS / Azure/ Google Cloud Platform) - Yes
- Other cloud (e.g. UK Cloud) - Yes
- Software as a Service (e.g. Office 365) - Yes
2.1. Who is responsible for each?
DST Director and CTO
3. How many on-premise data centres do you own?
One
4. How many third-party data centres do you use?
Two
5. Do you use cloud for storing data / applications?
Yes just applications
6. Expressed in percentage terms, approximately what proportion of your data and applications are held in:
Just applications
- An on-premise data centre - 5
- A third-party data centre - 89
- Hyperscale public cloud (e.g. AWS / Azure/ Google Cloud Platform) - 5
- Other public cloud (e.g. UK Cloud) - 1
- Private cloud (included in second item)
7. Is your IT primarily managed in-house or is it outsourced?
In-house
8. Do you share your IT infrastructure and services with any other organisation?
No
9. Do you have a central IT department?
Yes
10. Who in your organisation is responsible for driving your cloud strategy?
Director and CTO
11. If your organisation does have a cloud strategy, what are the main drivers?
- Cost savings -Yes
- Scalability - Yes
- Agility - Yes
- Security - Yes
- Modernisation - Yes
- Other (please specify): - Government Cloud First Policy
12. In the next 12 months are you looking to procure any of the following?
- On-premise data centre - No
- Colocation facilities - No
- Physical IT infrastructure - Yes
- Hyperscale public cloud services (e.g. AWS / Azure/ Google Cloud Platform) - Yes
- Other public cloud services (e.g. UK Cloud) - No
- Private cloud services - Yes
- Outsourced IT managed services - No