CloudStore by the numbers: What has the government's G-cloud marketplace achieved so far?
Earlier this year, the UK government opened the doors to the CloudStore, the online marketplace where public sector organisations could buy from a list of pre-approved cloud services, from hosting to training.
With its first birthday not far away, ZDNet take a look at what the CloudStore has achieved to date.
- 20 February 2012: Date the CloudStore went live:
Under two weeks between launch and first purchase
Four categories of services that can be bought through the CloudStore: infrastructure, software, platform, and specialist services
99 separate deals agreed through the CloudStore to date
Over £2.2m in total sales made through the CloudStore to date
Around £1.5m spent with SMEs
Two frameworks used by the CloudStore
26 October 2012: Date the second framework was launched
over 1,700 separate cloud services available on first framework
Over 3,100 services available on second framework
257 suppliers on the first framework
458 suppliers on the second framework
74 percent: Proportion of SMEs on the first framework
75 percent: Proportion of SMEs on the second framework
£555,817.74: Most business done in one month through the CloudStore
£251,000: Biggest single transaction in a month, spent by the Ministry of Justice with Huddle
£5: Smallest single transaction in a month, spent by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport with Fubra
Almost £500,000: Amount taken by Emergn, the supplier that's done the most business through the CloudStore to date
Over £400,000: Amount spent so far by the single biggest CloudStore user, the Department for Work and Pensions
55: Number of public sector organisations that have used the CloudStore
30: Number of suppliers that have done business through the CloudStore
Six: Number of weeks it took UK SME SolidSoft to build the CloudStore
One: Number of major outages the CloudStore has experienced (in February, after Microsoft Azure went down)