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Some of the biggest companies in tech are fighting with the U.S. Government over questionable practices in the mysterious world of military contracts, with a lucrative prize at the end: a hefty $10 billion, multi-year cloud-computing deal. At stake is a highly publicized but controversial contract to provide cloud services for the Department of Defense, dubbed Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI. The contract received interest from the top cloud-computing players, many of which submitted bids for the deal: Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Oracle Corp. The plans call for the JEDI program to become the key component for the DOD’s enterprise cloud strategy, the DOD’s chief information officer, Dana Deasy, said in a letter to potential cloud partners. The JEDI cloud will serve as the infrastructure spanning from the DOD offices at the Pentagon to soldiers in the field. As opposed to a vast set of incompatible databases that they have in the field now, the deal envisions a unified cloud providing access to data through a range of devices to make decisions on the fly, using machine learning.
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While the goal is admirable, the process and plans have been questioned by some contenders. Amid the acronyms and the mind-numbing jargon of both the DOD and the cloud industry, at least two cloud rivals, with the support of have said that the request for proposal, or RFP, process appears to be flawed because it is going against industry practices by seeking only one cloud provider. They also believe that the language of the program appears to be tailored to one company alone: Amazon’s AWS. “Of particular concern are the ‘gating,’ or restricting, provisions and structure of the proposed contract, that seem to be tailored to one specific contractor,” wrote U.S. Download running man 422.
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Steve Womack. R-Ark., and Tom Cole, R-Okla., in a letter in October asking the U.S. Inspector General to look into the JEDI cloud-program process, without naming Amazon specifically. The investigation is ongoing and officials did not respond to requests for comment, possibly due to the government shutdown. Oracle and IBM have both filed protests with the General Accounting Office. Oracle went as far as filing a lawsuit in early December, after the GOA denied its protest.
“Unfortunately, JEDI, as outlined in the final solicitation, would not provide the strongest possible foundation for the 21st-century battlefield,” wrote Sam Gordy, general manager of IBM’s federal business. Many fears about the plans focus on the use of just a single cloud-computing vendor for the length of the deal, which will span up to a decade. The government’s request for a single provider of cloud services is a risky strategy that could make the DOD cloud both easier to hack and vulnerable in the event of power emergencies or an actual war, both IBM and Oracle have argued. Nba 2k17 for free pc. The argument is that using a single company to provide cloud computing and storage functions could backfire in the event of a power outage, and would give hackers one system to focus on.
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It is also not an industry best practice — most companies are moving toward a multi-cloud approach. “What the government is doing with JEDI is not in sync with what the commercial world is doing,” said Brian Johnson, co-founder and CEO of Divvy Cloud, an Arlington, Va.-based venture-backed startup that focuses on cloud security. “It is just a really bad idea to pick just one provider.” He added that all cloud providers have outages and noted that the need for two service providers has been a basic disaster-recovery practice since the early days of the data center. Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud also believes that a multi-cloud approach is best, and did not bid for the job, in part because of the single-source requirement. In a statement, a Google spokeswoman said, “Had the JEDI contract been open to multiple vendors, we would have submitted a compelling solution for portions of it. Google Cloud believes that a multi-cloud approach is in the best interest of government agencies, because it allows them to choose the right cloud for the right workload.” Google also received protests from some of its employees who were ethically opposed to the contract. “We couldn’t be assured that it would align with our AI Principles,” the Google spokeswoman said, “and second, we determined that there were portions of the contract that were out of scope with our current government certifications.” Maribel Lopez, founder and principal analyst at Lopez Research, said the single-source contract makes sense in this scenario, but only for now.