This is a presentation given by Joan Miller, Director of Parliamentary ICT at Cloud Expo conference in January 2012. Joan retired from the UK's Parliament in 2014 after joining in 2005 to set up PICT and establish a world class IT service. Throughout her nine years there she was instrumental in modernising IT and creating environments for all forms of data. (Am proud to call her my mother-in-law).

1. What shall we do with Clouds?
Joan Miller
UK Parliamentary ICT

2. Parliamentary ICT - trends
In 2005 :
• Reading electronic papers was unimaginable
• IT was controlled and locked down at the desktop and laptop
By 2012 the world has changed :
• >50% of access to electronic data via phone or tablet = mobile working
• Predict mobile market will be Android/Apple/Windows 8
• ? 75% of work devices user owned
• Electronic cash (like oyster cards) replacing cash by June 2012
• IT will change every 18 months – plan for a year.
• Apps projects delivered in months, not years
• Cyber crime and data management will be in focus

3. What are our users doing?

4. Data 700 yrs ago

5. Then paper data

6. Next generation data
will be electronic

7. Face to face,
not just tweeting

8. More than just broadcasting
the message

9. Citizens want to talk too

10. • To use electronic data
• On the move, not stuck in one place
• Be always connected to their calendar/internet
• Choose their own mobile device
• Use their own Apps (as well as corporate data)
• For it to work..... all the time..... instantly
Our customers want:

11. Our feasibility study tells us that cloud services will:
• Improve mobility, suiting the Parliamentary work flow
• Improve user choice and flexibility
• Improve access to our data
(but we need to be sure it is secure in a cloud)
• We need better network and Wifi to make this work
• Will save a lot of money
What we can do :

12. iPads and mobile device management
Members really will use them instead of paper, and it costs
less than laptops and printing paper
Private cloud
Virtualisation has saved us more than £1m a year and
improved performance and resilience
SaaS
Just small steps for now using non-secure data. It saves
money and it is so quick to do
We have experimented in :

13. What next?

14. Cloud readiness project
Jan 2012- Apr 2013
 Planning People Directory
 Browser strategy
 Culture, users
 Legal, procurement
 Operational readiness
 User Experience – model office
 Cloud brokerage
 User profiling
 Application Profiling
 Network – wifi
 Identify management/security
 Data classification
 Data security

15. Apr 12 Apr 13 Apr 14 Apr 15
Cloud first
Cloud First April 2013

16. Why cloud?
It’s mobile
It’s device independent
It’s flexible
It costs less
Cloud suits our users’ pattern of work

17. Our cloud
Public cloud – segment our data
Big decision is
• stick with MS
• move to google
• something altogether different
Big problems to resolve
• Data (ownership, retrieval, integration)
• Security
Not IF but WHEN
-next steps is 12 months to work out how to do these 3 things