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Oracle’s Latest Earnings Report Early last week, Oracle released their Q2 2019 earnings results which were decent but nothing to write home about. The biggest achievement for the company in cloud was that gross margins were stable at 86% while still investing to build out second-generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or OCI. That 86% accounts for…
Oracle Sues the U.S. Government Oracle has filed a federal court suit against the U.S. government, alleging that the decade long $10 billion Pentagon JEDI contract to a single vendor is both unfair and illegal. Oracle has been complaining for months that it believes the contract has been written to favor the industry leader AWS.…
Google Steps Up and Steps Back from DOD Contracts Google divided opinions this week as it announced internally that it would not be renewing its contract with the Department of Defense, nicknamed Project Maven. The project, officially called Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, has been hotly contested by both Google employees and outside detractors alike. It…
This week’s cloud news round-up focuses a lot on how the International market influences the cloud. Whether it’s Russia’s actions to block a single app from its citizens, a sizable government contract being announced in the United States, or the European Union’s approaching deadline for GDPR compliance, the actions of the government bodies around the…
The 2018 BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard created by The Software Alliance (BSA) has listed the United Kingdom as one of the top four leading IT economies worldwide. The UK, which previously ranked ninth as recently as 2016, has invested heavily in security and accessibility, implemented a number of privacy rules, and encourage private and…
The Department of Defense has scaled back a $950 million contract awarded to REAN Cloud LLC in February to $65 million after the deal underwent extensive scrutiny including Oracle’s filing of a protest to the contract later that month. The Pentagon cited a narrowing of the project’s scope for the reduction in funding. When the…
In a rare instance of the Supreme Court weighing in on technology issues, the Justices heard oral arguments in United States v. Microsoft Tuesday over issues related to digital privacy, the cloud, and enforcement of U.S. law abroad. The case in question surrounds a legal dispute that started in 2013. Federal investigators working on a…
The Department of Defense released a set of answers to frequently asked questions about its initiative to accelerate cloud adoption within the department. Guided by the Cloud Executive Steering Group (CESG), the DoD is looking for solutions for storing unclassified, classified, and top-secret data in the cloud. Known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI)…
The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) and three of the leading cloud providers partnered to make cloud resources more accessible to the area of scientific study and research. This agreement includes $9 million in cloud resources donated during the fiscal year 2017. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure donated $3 million…
CSRA recently secured an $8.5 million award to expand its cloud portfolio in order to offer G Suite and Google Cloud services to the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USU). This potential five-year agreement enables the IT provider to expand its cloud service offerings to the three biggest public cloud providers, Google Cloud, AWS,…