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 Agency (DISA), will see the deployment of HPE's Green Lake Private Cloud offering across its IT footprint.

The platform is designed to mirror the look and feel of a public cloud, replicating many of the key features that have made Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform so attractive while keeping the data and workloads running on prem.

The DoD is particularly interested in the platform's support for a centralized management plane, which will allow the department to manage the data and resources across its datacenter fleet from a single air-gapped interface, and multi-tenancy, which will enable resource isolation ...