{"id":8930,"date":"2013-09-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2784259"},"modified":"2013-09-13T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:00:00","slug":"ibm-wins-its-largest-u-s-cloud-computing-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-wins-its-largest-u-s-cloud-computing-contract-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Wins Its Largest U.S. Cloud-Computing Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s one big check for Big Blue.<br \/>\nIBM won a federal cloud-computing contract with a maximum value of $1 billion, its largest such agreement with the U.S. government, according to an article on Bloomberg.com.<br \/>\nThe Interior Department awarded similar, 10-year pacts to nine other suppliers, including Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT), which also described the agreement as its largest federal cloud contract.<br \/>\nThe deals might reach a combined $10 billion, allowing the agency to speed its efforts to move information to the cloud, a Web-based pool of shared resources such as data storage and software. Other U.S. departments may eventually tap the program.<br \/>\nThe agreement shows that \u201cIBM\u2019s ability to help governments transform with new technologies, like cloud, continue to grow,\u201d Michael Rowinski, a spokesman for the Armonk, New York-based company, said in an e-mail yesterday. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2784259\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s one big check for Big Blue.<br \/>\nIBM won a federal cloud-computing contract with a maximum value of $1 billion, its largest such agreement with the U.S. government, according to an article on Bloomberg.com.<br \/>\nThe Interior Department awarded similar, 10-year pacts to nine other suppliers, including Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT), which also described the agreement as its largest federal cloud contract.<br \/>\nThe deals might reach a combined $10 billion, allowing the agency to speed its efforts to move information to the cloud, a Web-based pool of shared resources such as data storage and software. Other U.S. departments may eventually tap the program.<br \/>\nThe agreement shows that &ldquo;IBM&rsquo;s ability to help governments transform with new technologies, like cloud, continue to grow,&rdquo; Michael Rowinski, a spokesman for the Armonk, New York-based company, said in an e-mail yesterday. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2784259\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}