Google <\/a> dropped out<\/a> of the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud contract<\/a> battle fairly early in the game, citing it was in conflict with its “AI principals.” However, today the company announced a new seven-figure contract with DoD’s 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’s 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 — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — and this solution will provide a way to monitor security across all three environments, according to the company.<\/p>\n “Multi-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,” 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. “The 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 — while being centrally managed from the Google Cloud Console,” 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. “This 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.”<\/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<\/div>\n Tags:<\/b> Ron Miller<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google dropped out of the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud contract battle fairly early in the game, citing it was in conflict with its “AI principals.” However, today the company announced a new seven-figure contract with DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a big win for the cloud unit and CEO Thomas Kurian. While the company would not get specific about the … Continue reading Google Cloud earns defense contract win for Anthos multi-cloud management tool<\/span><\/a> Continue Reading
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