US Army to put cloud in containers
The US Army has awarded a US$250m contract to four companies to build a cloud environment that will reside in both traditional and mobile data centers. MicroTech – one of the awardees – says this is the army’s first cloud computing contract.
MicroTech says it will provide, maintain and support mobile data centers for the Army Private Cloud Mobile (name of the future environment). Services will include providing application hosting in containerized data centers, application migration, as well as cloud services such as Infrastructure- , Platform- and Software-as-a-Service.
Commenting on the contract award, MicroTech president and CEO Tony Jimenez said, “Winning the Army Private Cloud contract is proof that MicroTech’s cloud computing solutions and mobile data centers are cutting edge and provide the best-of-breed solutions the Army needs to get to the next level.”