“It’s the most important cloud deal to come out of the Beltway,” said analyst Daniel Ives, who monitors the cloud industry for Wedbush Securities. “It’s about the Pentagon as a reference customer. It says significant accolades about what they think about that vendor, and that’s the best reference customer you could have in that world.”
Last July, the Pentagon announced it was cancelling its previous cloud computing award, then named JEDI. At the time, the Pentagon said that due to delays in proceeding with the contract, technology had changed to the extent that the old contract, which was awarded to Microsoft, no longer met DOD’s needs.
It did not mention the legal challenges behind those delays, which had come from Amazon, the losing bidder. Amazon had questioned whether former President Donald Trump’s administration had steered the contract toward Microsoft due to Trump’s adversarial relationship with Amazon’s chief executive officer at the time, Jeff Bezos.
Forrester analyst Devin Dickerson said awarding the contract to four companies instead of one shows a “multicloud strategy” that could improve the Pentagon’s bargaining position with major cloud providers and make it easier for individual offices within the Defense Department to acquire cloud technologies and services.
People are outraged
Where is the missing pentagon money
Lol. Nice move Pentagon
Put your military data and business process systems in the cloud. What could possibly go wrong?
'among,' not between
One step closer to Big Brother
“ALEXA, tell me all the nuclear secrets codes”
Great. Now I have to get a certification for all 4 cloud providers.
This is genius. If it works. Not only are you taking 4 argumentative children and forcing them to play with each other, you may also get the best of all worlds. If the downside is it costs 10% more, but the upside is it’s 20% better. Its a win. But that’s if all goes well.
Great, 4 times more Program Managers!
Troubling thejointstaff ODNIgov DHSgov WhiteHouse SpeakerPelosi PentagonPresSec
This is honestly the worst way to do a cloud infrastructure build, but at least it *seems* fair?
maybe they're beginning to understand how to deal with oligarchs... split up the contracts. Should have done something similar with SpaceX
Oh good. All the companies you can trust.
When the Oligarchs no longer need to concern themselves with any opposition to for-profit authoritarianism.
This is good. Good job, well done 👏 👏
Literally most inefficient and costly way to do it