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The CIA chose Amazon's cloud over IBM's. Photo: Karl Hilzinger
WASHINGTON: The CIA selected Amazon over IBM to build a cloud computing
service for the spy agency even though IBM's proposal carried a lower price
tag, according to a government report.
IBM protested the CIA's decision to the Government Accountability Office (
GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, which sided with IBM on two of its
main objections, officials said on Wednesday.
The GAO concluded that the CIA had failed to evaluate prices in each firm's
proposal in a fair, comparable way and that the agency had waived a
requirement in the project proposal only for Amazon, its report stated.
"We sustain the protest because the agency's adjustment of scenario prices
was unreasonable in that it did not result in evaluation on a common basis,"
the GAO said in its report issued last Friday.
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The contract to build a secure cloud for the CIA is reportedly valued at up
to $US600 million over four years.
The GAO recommended the Central Intelligence Agency reopen the competition
and amend the request for proposals to rectify the problems cited in the
audit.
The CIA has 60 days to decide how it will respond and has not indicated how
it will proceed, though US agencies almost always follow the GAO's advice.
"At this time the Agency is reviewing details of the GAO decision," CIA
spokesman Todd Ebitz said in an email.
Amazon's estimated price for the cloud computer project was about $US54
million higher than that offered by IBM, but the CIA concluded the price
difference was offset by a "superior technical solution" from Amazon,
according to the GAO report.
The report created a stir in the tech world as it indicated Amazon would be
installing cloud services inside CIA data centres, in a break with its
standard practice of offering extra computing power over the internet.
Amazon Web Services executives have previously argued that "private clouds"
connected to data centers do not quality as authentic cloud services, as
they are cut off from the public internet.
Under the CIA project, the contractor would "provide a copy of its existing
public cloud (modified where necessary) to be installed on government
premises," the GAO report said.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/cloud/cia-faulted-for-choosing-amazon-cloud-over-ibm-20130620-2okb7.html#ixzz2Wj3Koyh9 | E*****m
发帖数: 25615 | | z****e
发帖数: 54598 | 3 显然不是，我是开源粉，用oss用得不比你少
但是对于大公司，我至少会去看他们在干嘛，争取了解他们对比开源的优势在哪里
【在 E*****m 的大作中提到】
: 蜥蜴 是IBM粉？
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