HPE scores $931M contract to make DoD’s cloud migration a little less public

The US Department of Defense on Tuesday awarded Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) a 10-year, $931 million contract to bring cloud conveniences, like unified management and multi-tenancy, to the US military's most sensitive datacenters. The Distributed Hybrid Multi-Cloud contract, awarded by the DoD's Defense Information Systems …

[HCV]

No notes on your link photo. Pete's never looked better.

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

Looks like the DUI hire switched over to cocaine.

[ITMA]

DoD?

Didn't the orange buffoon and Hesgeth rename it DoW - the Department of War?

Speaks volumes for their future intentions me thinks....

[HCV]

Re: DoD?

The HPE press release (linked to in the article) bends the knee and calls it the "Department of War". Kudos to El Reg for not following suit.

I guess Hegseth hasn't bothered to rename DISA to "WISA", consistency not being his core competency.

[redking]

My guess would be that DoD is looking to move off Microsoft GCC-DoD after MS revealed that their "all US-based super secure" cloud had Chinese engineers working on it with the digital equivalent of mall cops watching them.

Unfortunately for the military, if HPE's Green Lake is anything like their VPC offering was back in the day, they'll be inoperable within six months.

[Evaluator]

IBM tried so hard to position as the "multi-cloud" yet HPE grabbed this contract. When IBM exited x86, it may have affected their ability to be a go-to cloud in 2025. How ironic that ARM, a RISC cpu with similarties to IBM POWER, is making major gains in cloud compute now while POWER isn't on anyone's mind anymore.

[Anonymous Coward]

10 years is a long time ...

In this day and age, with things in the tech world changing so rapidly, why would anyone sign a 10 year deal?

How much has happened/changed since 2015? How much will happen from now until 2035?