The majority of the UK’s local councils run two or more data centres each, suggesting cloudy adoption is still a long way off for local gov, according to Freedom of Information research.

Requests sent to the UK’s 100 largest local authorities revealed that two-thirds of councils run at least two bit barns and store 90 per cent or more of their data on premises – according to findings from IT service provider Eduserv.

Reported by The Register. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.