DOD says “no más” on commercial cloud, puts brakes on $450M contract
November 15, 2013
Grazed from ArsTechnica. Author: Sean Gallagher.
Apparently even the government can have too much cloud capacity. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has announced that it is putting the brakes on a $450 million commercial cloud-computing contract because of a lack of demand from within the Department of Defense.
In a notice posted by the DISA to the Federal Business Opportunities website, the agency’s contracting officer Scott Stewart wrote, "Initial indications are the demand will not require a contract with the ceiling estimated in [the] draft solicitation. We are currently revising our acquisition strategy."…
The contract, for which the DISA began drafting a request for proposals this summer, would have picked up to 10 cloud providers to supply Internet-accessible file storage, database hosting, Web hosting, and virtual servers—allowing the military to offload public, non-sensitive systems from its own infrastructure. As it turns out, the various military services and other DOD agencies that the DISA serves aren’t terribly interested in doing that…
Read more from the source @ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/dod-says-no-mas-on-commercial-cloud-puts-brakes-on-450m-contract/