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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by posixplz on Saturday July 28, 2018 @12:09PM (#17633719)
To be fair, when the IC bought their own AWS cloud, Oracle had just unveiled their Bare Metal Compute product. Only in the last year or two have they begin to offer virtualized resources in their cloud. AFAIK, the virtualized offering runs on top of their BMC foundation and the product has been renamed to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by halbritt on Saturday July 28, 2018 @12:57PM (#17633931)
They still only have a couple of data centers.

"Oracle Cloud" is vaporware.

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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by jiggliemon on Saturday July 28, 2018 @01:09PM (#17633977)
More than a couple. Not as many as amazon.

Source: I work for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by halbritt on Saturday July 28, 2018 @01:20PM (#17634025)
You're absolutely right. The last time I checked it was Phoenix and Ashburn. Quite a few more, now:

https://cloud.oracle.com/data-regions

I'm sorry that you work for Oracle.

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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by anoncoward111 on Saturday July 28, 2018 @05:10PM (#17635075)
Oracle actually has dozens of data centers all over the world. How many "public" cloud users they have is totally obfuscated and in my opinion is probably an outright fraud. Oracle, please don't sue me for slander. I said probably, not definitely.

In reality, I suspect most of these data centers are just private co-locations.

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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by stevehawk on Sunday July 29, 2018 @12:21PM (#17638853)
I haven't read the RFP but I doubt the number of data centers will matter. Odds are that these would be placed on federal property, such as certain military bases, and not be a part of any preexisting commercial infrastructure.
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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by stevehawk on Sunday July 29, 2018 @12:22PM (#17638861)
BMC isn't enough though. Amazon didn't win simply because they had EC2.
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