{"id":18756,"date":"2020-05-21T03:10:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T03:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/google-cloud-earns-defense-contract-win-for-anthos-multi-cloud-management-tool.html"},"modified":"2020-05-21T03:10:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T03:10:03","slug":"google-cloud-earns-defense-contract-win-for-anthos-multi-cloud-management-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/google-cloud-earns-defense-contract-win-for-anthos-multi-cloud-management-tool.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud earns defense contract win for Anthos multi-cloud management tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google <\/a> dropped out<\/a> of the Pentagon\u2019s JEDI cloud contract<\/a> battle fairly early in the game, citing it was in conflict with its \u201cAI principals.\u201d However, today the company announced a new seven-figure contract with DoD\u2019s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a big win for the cloud unit and CEO Thomas Kurian.<\/p>\n

While the company would not get specific about the number, the new contract involves using Anthos, the tool the company announced last year<\/a> to secure DIU\u2019s multi-cloud environment. In spite of the JEDI contract involving a single vendor, the DoD has always used solutions from all three major cloud vendors \u2014 Amazon, Microsoft and Google \u2014 and this solution will provide a way to monitor security across all three environments, according to the company.<\/p>\n

\u201cMulti-cloud is the future. The majority of commercial businesses run multi-cloud environments securely and seamlessly, and this is now coming to the federal government as well,\u201d Mike Daniels, VP of Global Public Sector at Google Cloud told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

The idea is to manage security across three environments with help from cloud security vendor Netskope<\/a>, which is also part of the deal. \u201cThe multi-cloud solution will be built on Anthos, allowing DIU to run web services and applications across Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure \u2014 while being centrally managed from the Google Cloud Console,\u201d the company wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n

Daniels says that while this is a deal with DIU, he could see it expanding to other parts of DoD. \u201cThis is a contract with the DIU, but our expectation is that the DoD will look at the project as a model for how to implement their own security posture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google Cloud Platform <\/a> remains way back in the cloud infrastructure pack<\/a>, in third place with around 8% market share. For context, AWS has around 33% market share and Microsoft has around 18%.<\/p>\n

While JEDI, a $10 billion, winner-take-all prize remains mired in controversy and an on-going battle<\/a> between The Pentagon, Amazon and Microsoft, this deal shows that the defense department is looking at advanced technology like Anthos to help it manage a multi-cloud world regardless of what happens with JEDI.<\/p>\n

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In spite of pandemic (or maybe because of it), cloud infrastructure revenue soars<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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