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Phoenix IT Group plc has been listed as G-Cloud III supplier. G-Cloud III is a British government framework designed to promote the adoption of cloud computing, especially in regards to the UK's public sector. It provides a procurement framework including a list of vendors that the government has approved and which the public sector organizations can purchase cloud services. The company will offer IaaS, PasS, SaaS and specialist cloud services within the framework.
Phoenix has traditionally supported GPS frameworks and an increasing number public sector organizations are considering the benefits of cloud computing. According to the UK Cabinet Office, G-Cloud services procurement is on the rise, with figures suggesting a 50% increase in services procured through the G-Cloud framework over last month (April 2013). To date sales via the G-Cloud I and G-Cloud II frameworks total around £18 million ($27.6 million).
G-Cloud III offers Phoenix "the ideal springboard to showcase (its) credentials to the public sector," explained Phoenix's Executive Chairman, Peter Bertram. "Since its inception, the G-Cloud framework has given government departments and agencies easy access to a flexible range of technologies to support Government adoption of cloud products and services."
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