The United States defence department on Tuesday cancelled its $10 billion cloud computing JEDI project awarded to Microsoft by former president Donald Trump. It announced opening up the field to other players, including Amazon, the biggest cloud computing provider. Software companies have been trying to persuade the government and businesses that it was safe to shift computing work into their data centers. They have presented various studies to prove the point that cloud computing is safe. The Pentagon hopes to have the first awards by April 2022 for its new Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC).

Source: Hindustan Times July 07, 2021 01:41 UTC