Futurum’s Shelly Kramer shares insights on the cancellation of Microsoft’s DOD JEDI contract win, how Amazon’s tenacity paid off, and how changing times mean changing cloud needs for the government. Which is where the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC), a multi-cloud/multi-vendor Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, comes in.
Why Microsoft’s $21 Billion IVAS XR Contract With The U.S. Army Is A Much Bigger Deal Than Meets The Eye
Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard covers by Microsoft’s $21 billion IVAS XR contract with the U.S. Army is a much bigger deal than meets the eye.
Amazon Seeks to Depose President, Others After Losing $10B Pentagon Cloud Contract
Still upset over losing the Department of Defense JEDI contract, Amazon’s AWS seeks to President Trump and six other government workers regarding the selection of Microsoft for the DoD cloud services contract. Will questioning the government about this decision make any difference?
In Depth: Jedi Award Signals Parity in the Cloud Wars?
In 2019 Microsoft was awarded the massive DoD contract “JEDI,” winning over Amazon Web Services (AWS). What does this mean for both companies?
Microsoft Awarded Impact Level 6 DoD Clearance: Closes Gap With AWS
With the award of an important DoD clearance known as Level 6, Microsoft’s Azure cloud business became only the second to hold this important credential.
Microsoft Beat Earnings, Smashes Revenue Estimates
Microsoft beat earnings and smashed revenue estimates in today’s earnings report. While a big deal was made by some of the Azure slowdown in growth, that is to be expected. Microsoft is a company that has momentum. For investors, they are a company that no matter how high the price of the stock goes, it’s hard to bet against them over the long term. I believe the Azure business will settle in and continue double-digit growthI do expect the Azure business to settle in and continue its significant double-digit growth, but hey, 40-70% YoY is a number everyone should feel good about.
Sorry Oracle, It’s Microsoft or Amazon for the DoD’s $10B Cloud Contract
Sorry Oracle, you’re out. Now officially the sole contenders in the bid for the Department of Defense’s $10B cloud computing contract are Microsoft and Amazon. For a variety of reasons, it makes no sense that the government would hand over a ten-year, $10B cloud services contract to Amazon. Time will tell on this front, but my money is on Microsoft.