{"id":7814,"date":"2013-06-16T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jun\/17\/does-ibm-have-case-amazon-cia-cloud-contract-offer\/"},"modified":"2013-06-16T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T23:22:10","slug":"does-ibm-have-a-case-with-amazon-cia-cloud-contract-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/does-ibm-have-a-case-with-amazon-cia-cloud-contract-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Does IBM have a case with Amazon CIA cloud contract offer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report examining why the CIA chose Amazon ahead of IBM for its recent $600m private cloud contract, and whether IBM has a case to answer with its protests against the decision.<\/p>\n<p>And the conclusion it came to was, to quote The Simpsons, a little from column A and a little from column B. The GAO both sustained and rejected IBM&rsquo;s complaint in part, and surmised that Amazon&rsquo;s offer was both &ldquo;the best value&rdquo; and a &ldquo;superior technical solution&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>This comes despite Amazon&rsquo;s proposal being over $50m a year more expensive &ndash; the bean counters found that Amazon would cost $148m annually, as opposed to IBM&rsquo;s $94m.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of technical specs, the two vendors were put side by side, with Amazon coming out on top. The CIA found that Amazon&rsquo;s SLA, technical approach and past performance was superior &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report examining why the CIA chose Amazon ahead of IBM for its recent $600m private cloud contract, and whether IBM has a case to answer with its protests against the decision.<br \/>\nAnd the conclusio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}