INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Microsoft was recently awarded a contract to supply cloud computing services to the Pentagon and this has left some critics wondering
whether politics played a role.For quite some time, Amazon was seen as the frontrunner for the $10bn, 10-year Joint Enterprise Defense
Infrastructure (JEDI) project
favors a single cloud vendor.However, President Trump, who has publicly criticized Amazon as well as the company's CEO Jeff Bezos, got
involved and ordered a review of the Pentagon's procurement process.In a recent interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, GeekWire asked
the software giant's CEO whether or not he believed politics played a role in the company winning the JEDI contract
There are some core capabilities we have, which were always differentiated
Those are all things that I think, in the end game, really stood out
years and has instead focused on improving its services and products.Winning the JEDI contract is a huge deal for Microsoft as it looks to
gain market share over AWS in the cloud wars but Amazon could still appeal the decision and according to a source familiar with the
