MicroTech wins Army Private Cloud contract to bring mobile data center optimization to U.S. Department of Defense

VIENNA, Va., 9 Jan. 2012. MicroTech won an Army Private Cloud (APC2) Mobile indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for the Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS). The $250 million Army Private Cloud contract, shared by four companies, will enable the Army to reduce costs via server consolidation and updating and optimizing IT with fixed and containerized data centers. This is the Army's first cloud computing contract.
Jan. 9, 2012

VIENNA, Va., 9 Jan. 2012. MicroTech won an Army Private Cloud (APC2) Mobile indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for the Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS). The $250 million Army Private Cloud contract, shared by four companies, will enable the Army to reduce costs via server consolidation and updating and optimizing IT with fixed and containerized data centers. This is the Army's first cloud computing contract.

MicroTech personnel, in partnership with the Army, will provide, maintain, operate, and support mobile data centers, including hosting services for applications within container-based facilities and providing Cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and data and application migration services.

MicroTech—which provides cloud computing solutions, technology services, systems integration, product solutions, unified communications and collaboration, and innovation and integration—is a prime contractor on more than 100 Federal projects and 28 procurement vehicles.

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