Probably due to spammers hiking usage when they do a new 'promotion'. Or hackers/crims wanting to crack passwords in bulk.
G-Cloud sellers hit out against cap on scaling services
G-Cloud suppliers have hit out against new rules to be introduced in the next iteration of the cloudy framework this month. The new guidelines will slap a 20 per cap on how much buyers can scale their services. Trade association EuroCloud said the changes are incompatible with the pay-as-you-go cloud subscription model. The …
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Monday 2nd November 2015 12:55 GMT A Non e-mouse
I suspect the reason for this is to stop an organisation awarding a contract to a company, and then increasing the value of the contract by a substantial amount without re-tendering.
In a normal procurement contract I can see the point. But as cloud is supposed to be flexible, having a 20% cap does kind of sound like it's defeating the purpose of using the cloud.
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Monday 2nd November 2015 14:32 GMT BearishTendencies
For a change.....
I'm with CCS here on this.
One of the premises behind G-Cloud is regular recompetition. If you can just extend and expand ad infinitum, you're not driving any market or value.
The problem though is what it is touted as being. From a supplier's perspective, its a licence to sell in any way you like. But it's not that at all. It's a licence for the buyer to buy the defined services. Making it clear the terms of that licence is probably appropriate.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
