Confused, pessimistic on G-Cloud? You must work in government

Confusion and pessimism about the government's G-Cloud and ICT plans is widespread among civil servants running the nation's innovation .

A VMware survey of more than 180 senior public sector IT staff found 63 per cent doubt the Cabinet Office will be able to hit its stated spending goals on cloud computing.

Nearly half of IT staff - 43 per cent - said they couldn't identify the kind of savings that they might personally achieve from cloud computing.

Ex-G-Cloud director Andy Tait, who last year stepped down to become VMware's head of public sector strategy, said the government must do more to work to win this support and overcome scepticism and pessimism using improved communication.

The level of communications

To improve the level of communications, Tait said the government must go beyond preaching to the converted through the blogs and Twitter, popular among the Cabinet Office's cadres, and reach out to government computing types through established channels.

Tait told The Reg: "[The Cabinet Office] needs to get behind some of the clear messages they have made statements about... They need to get behind that at above the board level through the conference network and engage although CIO council, and not just the Twitter network."