The $1 billion cloud hosting services contract will assist the U.S. Department of Interior's move to cloud computing
IBM has announced it will work with the United States Department of the Interior (US DOI) as the department embarks on a decade long transformation of their information technology (IT) systems to a cloud computing model. As part of an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, valued for IBM up to $1 billion, the Department may use IBM cloud computing technologies, services, and hosting as the foundation of their next generation infrastructure.
IBM's solution for the DOI is based on the company's secure and high availability federal data center capabilities using open computing and process standards. The US DOI will leverage IBM expertise in data storage, secure file transfer, virtual machines, database, web hosting, development testing and SAP application hosting. The Department will also be able to tap IBM's Smart Cloud for Government hosted at the IBM Federal Data Center, the Smart Cloud for Enterprise (SCE) commercial offerings, and the very cost competitive IBM AIX Cloud.