{"id":350073,"date":"2021-10-08T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-return-of-jedi-sequel-to-military-cloud-contract-will-be-much-more-complex\/"},"modified":"2021-10-08T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:42:00","slug":"the-return-of-jedi-sequel-to-military-cloud-contract-will-be-much-more-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-return-of-jedi-sequel-to-military-cloud-contract-will-be-much-more-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"#: The return of JEDI: Sequel to military cloud contract will be much more complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c206a564c7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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Swartz<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#: The return of JEDI: Sequel to military cloud contract will be much more complex<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Microsoft_and_Amazon_are_already_guaranteed_slices_of_a_new_deal_that_will_rely_on_multiple_cloud_vendors_with_Google_Oracle_and_IBM_hoping_to_be_approved_to_join_them\"><\/span>\n  Microsoft and Amazon are already guaranteed slices of a new deal that will rely on multiple cloud vendors, with Google, Oracle and IBM hoping to be approved to join them<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"article body\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div id=\"cx-next\" data-nosnippet>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" 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data-show-subscribe=\"false\" data-ads-enabled=\"true\" data-save-publication=\"false\">\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       Four letters have set off another cloud war among the industry\u2019s biggest players, but this battle will have multiple winners. <\/p>\n<p> JEDI was first. The successor, JWCC, has renewed hostilities among Amazon.com Inc.<br \/>\n        AMZN,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/210331248\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+1.24%<\/bg-quote><span>,<\/span><br \/>\n       Microsoft Corp.<br \/>\n        MSFT,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/207732364\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+0.59%<\/bg-quote><span>,<\/span><br \/>\n       Alphabet parent Google<br \/>\n        GOOGL,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/202490156\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+1.21%<\/bg-quote><\/p>\n<p>        GOOG,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/205453964\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+1.33%<\/bg-quote><span>,<\/span><br \/>\n       Oracle Corp.<br \/>\n        ORCL,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/202180826\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+1.07%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       and International Business Machines Corp.<br \/>\n        IBM,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/203856914\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-0.39%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       \u2014 with the stakes decidedly higher, and the deal more complex.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, was a Pentagon defense contract designed for just one vendor, leading to a controversial award to Microsoft in 2019 that sparked years of controversy and lawsuits that only ended this week, despite the government canceling the award in July. <\/p>\n<p>As the JEDI fight dragged on for years, the cloud industry was undergoing rapid change from the single-source contract <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach the Defense Department was then taking toward a so-called \u201cmulti-cloud\u201d model of more than one vendor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: The JEDI reboot allows U.S. to correct its mistake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sequel \u2014 the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, due to be awarded in April 2022 \u2014 will go to multiple vendors, and Amazon and Microsoft have already claimed two of the spots. Google Cloud, Oracle and IBM<strong> <\/strong>confirmed to MarketWatch that they will vie to join Amazon and Microsoft on the deal in recent days, and expect to hear if they are considered viable as early as this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department has not affixed a value to JWCC, which would let troops access data in the unclassified, secret and top-secret classification levels, but it could be worth much more than the $10 billion JEDI deal. The Department of Defense said it \u201cintends to seek proposals from a limited number of sources, namely the Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) and Amazon Web Services (AWS),\u201d according to a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Newsroom\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/2682992\/future-of-the-joint-enterprise-defense-infrastructure-cloud-contract\/\" class=\"icon none\">news release<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJEDI, conceived with noble intent and a baseline now several years old, was developed at a time when the department\u2019s needs were different and our cloud conversancy less mature,\u201d DoD Chief Information Officer John Sherman said in July, when the Defense Department simultaneously <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/2684754\/dod-aims-for-new-enterprise-wide-cloud-by-2022\/\" class=\"icon none\">announced JWCC<\/a> and the termination of JEDI shortly after Amazon dropped its legal challenge to JEDI. \u201cThe JWCC\u2019s multi-cloud environment will serve our future in a way that JEDI\u2019s single award, single cloud structure simply cannot do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>In-depth: How Amazon created AWS and changed <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> forever<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The structure of JWCC is highly significant because it illustrates the industrywide shift to multi-cloud vendor contracts and away from all-in-one solutions, says Will Grannis, managing director of Google Cloud\u2019s office of the CTO.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat you\u2019re seeing is across every enterprise \u2014 healthcare, financial services, government agencies, retail. Enterprises are choosing multi-cloud to meet service complexity,\u201d Grannis told MarketWatch. \u201cMulti-cloud is here to stay, and that is reflected by what is happening with JWCC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost all large customers have a multi-cloud strategy. It\u2019s a logical continuation of moving more stuff to the cloud,\u201d Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud, told MarketWatch. He explained cloud infrastructure has quickly grown to a $150 billion market because \u201cpeople are spending less on on-premise computing and more on the cloud.\u201d [Overall IT spending globally is about $1 trillion, he added.]<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic, in turn, has accelerated the movement to hybrid and multi-cloud systems as more people work remotely, putting a premium on \u201celastic, flexible\u201d data systems, said Tom Keane, corporate vice president of Azure Global at Microsoft. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is growth across almost every industry via cloud,\u201d he told MarketWatch.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, more than 80% of respondents to a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/document\/3975837?ref=TypeAheadSearch\" class=\"icon none\">Gartner study<\/a> on cloud-data management said they are using more than one cloud service provider.<\/p>\n<p>In November, for example, the CIA awarded its C2E contract for certain intelligence operations, potentially<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/it-modernization\/2020\/11\/exclusive-cia-awards-secret-multibillion-dollar-cloud-contract\/170227\/\" class=\"icon none\">\u00a0worth tens of billions of dollars<\/a>, to AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM. The deal replaces the $600 million C2S bid awarded in 2013 to Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From 2019: Amazon, Oracle and IBM battle in mysterious world of military contracts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the government moves to a multi-cloud deal, as such contracts are called, contracts with just one vendor continue to cause legal battles. A $10 billion secret cloud-computing contract awarded earlier this year by the National Security Agency to Amazon Web Services is being disputed by Microsoft, which filed a protest with the<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/docket\/b-420004.1\" class=\"icon none\">\u00a0Government Accountability Office<\/a>\u00a0in July. Microsoft declined to comment on the NSA contract.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s protest marks a reversal of what happened with JEDI. Oracle protested the original JEDI contract when it appeared Amazon would win it, and Amazon sued the federal government after it was awarded instead to Microsoft in October 2019, triggering complaints and litigation over the deal\u2019s single-source award structure and conflicts of interest. Amazon separately said the award was tarnished by then-President Donald Trump\u2019s animosity toward Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Trump-bashing Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more: What Amazon really accused Trump of doing in JEDI deal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last month, Oracle asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to dismiss its case over JEDI despite it no longer existing. \u201cCases do not become moot simply because a defendant issues a press release claiming to have ceased its misconduct,\u201d the company said in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2021\/09\/21\/supplemental_brief_20_1057_oracle_vs_usa_and_amazon.pdf\" class=\"icon none\">supplemental brief<\/a>\u00a0against the DoD.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court rejected Oracle\u2019s case on Monday<strong>, <\/strong>effectively ending the yearslong JEDI battle. Now, the sequel commences.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>    <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author mobile-scrim hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Jon Swartz\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"bio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/author\/jon-swartz\",\"text\":\"Biography\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"twitter\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jswartz\",\"text\":\"@jswartz\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"email\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/mailto:jswartz@marketwatch.com\",\"text\":\"jswartz@marketwatch.com\"}]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\" aria-label=\"links to  author page\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jon_Swartz\"><\/span>Jon Swartz<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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