Cloud computing is one of the most popular areas of the technology industry, the market is growing faster than the traditional business, where the two industry giants Amazon and Microsoft are competing for the US Department of Defense is currently worth 10 billion US dollars in cloud computing contracts do everything possible, the project also led bid Silicon Valley, the US business community highly concerned about politics.
Cloud computing is one of the most popular areas of the technology industry, the market is growing faster than the traditional business, where the two industry giants Amazon and Microsoft are competing for the US Department of Defense is currently worth 10 billion US dollars in cloud computing contracts do everything possible, the project also led bid Silicon Valley, the US business community highly concerned about politics.
According to foreign media news, the US Department of Defense has decided to postpone the announced bid results. It is reported that the new Defense Minister Ai Sipo (Mark Esper) completed by a series of comprehensive assessments of cloud computing technology, the Pentagon does not grant to the bidding companies a lucrative, multi-year cloud computing contract.
Deasy said:. "Our job now is to get to know the new defense minister, why do we need cloud computing," he said, the Pentagon will not rush to grant joint venture named defense infrastructure (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, referred to as JEDI) huge cloud computing contract.
As originally planned, this $ 10 billion cloud computing contracts should be formally awarded the bid winner in September 2018 of $ .100 million contract involves ten-year service.
According to foreign media reports, the contract could fall into the hands of Amazon or Microsoft, because only these two companies bidding program in line with the requirements of the Pentagon. This will give them a huge contract market position in cloud computing more secure.
For the US Department of Defense announced the bid results to postpone the news, Amazon and Microsoft has yet to comment on the media. Late bids will be announced time winner at the end of August.
Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump said he had received complaints enterprise computing project for the Department of Defense contract bid of $ 10 billion cloud, then the Pentagon announced that Defense Minister Mark Ai Sipo will review the bid for the project .
According to foreign media reports that Trump said in July, is to convey information about each company, specification conditions of the contract in favor of Amazon.
In the global cloud computing market, Amazon occupy the absolute leading edge, there are reports that the company's market share of more than half the share of rival Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle and others is just one of the Amazon is even a fraction of a fraction. Today, companies are taking measures to narrow the gap between and Amazon.
In the cloud computing business model, enterprises, government departments, eliminating the need to purchase expensive servers, software and dedicated telecommunication bandwidth networking to build data centers, need only pay a monthly fee or annual fee, you can rent the company's cloud computing resources, with a virtual data center. Cloud computing company also provides online storage, high-performance CPU computing, databases, online applications, artificial intelligence and other rich services, for customers to choose to buy.