UK embraces cloud computing.

• Position: CLOUD COMPUTING - Brief article

The United Kingdom Cabinet Office announced a plan to develop a cloud computing system that could save up to 3.2 billion [pounds sterling] (more than $4.8 billion U.S.) a year from an annual bill of more than 16 billion [pounds sterling] (more than $24 billion U.S.).

Cabinet Office Minister Angela Smith said the UK's governmental computing power will be concentrated "into a series of about a dozen highly secure data centers, each costing up to 250 million [pounds sterling] [more than $377 million U.S.] to build, which will replace more than 500 presently used by central government, police forces, and local authorities," The Guardian reported.

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