The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has withdrawn from their $10 billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) Cloud contract, which named Microsoft Azure as the provider of cloud services for the Pentagon. Pentagon Cancels $10 Billion ‘JEDI’ Contract with Microsoft Azure
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has withdrawn from their $10 billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) Cloud contract, which named Microsoft Azure as the provider of cloud services for the Pentagon. 
Atos, global provider of digital transformation services with 110,000 employees and annual revenue of €12 billion, has selected StorPool’s Software-Defined Storage (SDS) platform to build Atos’ public cloud service meeting their flexibility, reliability and speed requirements. 
Nutanix’s expanded partner program, now to include service provides globally, would enable service provider partners - such as managed and cloud service providers (CSPs, MSPs) - to create highly differentiated hybrid and multicloud services that may boost profitability and reduce time-to-market. 
Neutrality.one has deployed Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SDWAN) for Taeknizon which is a cloud service provider in Asia and the Middle East that connects enterprise locations to Taekni Cloud hosted in datamena and Equinix Abu Dhabi. 
Virtuozzo, a global provider of virtualization and hyperconverged software solutions, has announced the availability of its latest product, Virtuozzo Hybrid Cloud. 
Juniper Networks has stated that the company is going to continue its investment in the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market with the unveiling of Juniper Security Director Cloud, a cloud-based portal dedicated to distributing security and connectivity services to users, sites, and applications. 
The trend of using cloud services for data analytics and machine learning, data center consolidation, application migration, cloud native development and service delivery has continued at pace, says Canalys. According to the market research company, cloud infrastructure services spending grew 35% to $41.8 billion in the first quarter of 2021. 
Global technology distributor Arrow Electronics has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with global cyber security company Secureworks. This would add a comprehensive portfolio of “scalable and complementary†cyber security software and services to Arrow’s European offering. 
To meet high capacity demands of cloud networks, Pluribus Networks has launched three new Freedom 9000 series network switches. These network switches are based on silicon from the Broadcom StrataXGS Trident 3 switch series and would deliver high performance, and are designed especially for enterprise, cloud service provider, and communication service provider data center networks. 
