Re: In-house
The original questions came from a lack of understanding:
- the majority of the DoD DC environment is already outsourced. "should it be outsourced" was decided (as opposed to answered...) in the 1990's.
- the assumption is that there is $10bn to spend when the actual number is likely to be JEDI will save $10-$20bn over 10 years and does the DoD have an alternative plan to achieve these savings?
- does the DoD have existing data centres? Yes....far to many to adequately secure given the challenges of legacy systems, disparate locations and quantity. The goal is one DC per state plus "project specific requirements" plus major gov cloud vendors - this is down from 300+ DC's from 57 vendors and attempting to reduce IT spend on these DC's has been on-going for 15 years with little real success due to vendors being unwilling to alter how they do business with the government. Which is why we have seen legal and now political attempts at altering the outcome.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
