Competition: We've heard of it. UK's MoD snubs cloud rivals to hand Microsoft £17.7m Azure hosted services gig

Only the beast of Redmond could meet 'data sovereignty and reliability' needs, says department

The UK's Ministry of Defence has handed Microsoft a £17.75m contract to run hosted services in the Azure Cloud – and rivals won't even get a chance to compete due to requisite "data sovereignty and reliability".…

via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
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