>> Hello, everyone. This is a special presentation of the Cube. We're here in London at eight of us, one of eight of US locations in London. My name is Dave Volante and the Q We go, we'd like to go out to the events. We extract a signal from the noise and we've been following the ascendancy of a ws public sector from its early days. If you go back to two thousand thirteen, there was a significant moment in the history of eight of us where it won CIA contract a very large contract. CIA. It was contested by idea. My bm was used to kind of the what sometimes called the old guard the legacy companies used to selling into the government big, big contracts. And here comes this start up essentially eight of us taking away government business with CIA no less huge, huge contract. Well, IBM contested it. Judge Wheeler ruled against IBM for eight of us. And when reading that ruling, it was clear that the eight of US platform was superior to the IBM platform. He laid out the essentially the components of the R F P and the line by line and showed that a ws was the winner and virtually all of the line items. I think there was parody and won the reason why that was so important. It was that there were several factors there. One, It was a major milestone event. No, only Frito. Eight of us. But for cloud in general, if you think about security Ah, CIA, obviously very security conscious. It was the recognition that cloud actually could be more secure than on premises infrastructure. So the government was actually one of the first to kind of realise that and lean into that as a side effect, IBM had to go out and spend two billion dollars on soft layer toe actually compete in the cloud market Plys. So you had all these ripple effects Fast forward today to two thousand nineteen. You have the jet icon to contract a joint enterprise defense initiative. It's a ten billion dollar contract. A ws is in the lead for that contract. Oracle again another old Guard company has contested. And when you look through when when a company contests these bids, a whole lot of public information comes out. What? What the information suggested was that a single cloud the D o d determine that a single cloud was more secure, less complex and more cost effective. And so Oracle contested the the likelihood of an award to a single company because government contracts usually are awarded to multiple vendors. But in this case, because it's so critical tohave the data in one place so that they can serve the field better and responded the field better, the D o. D decided to use a single cloud. So oracles, you know, throwing off all rights of muck into the ring. Ah, basically asking the General Accountability Office to look at it. They did, Ggo said. If we're going to go with the D. O. D s decision, the D. O. D itself did an internal investigation. Now it's narrowed down to two vendors eight of us and Microsoft, and we believe that eight of us is the leading contender. Why is that? It's because eight of us says the most services. It's the most advanced, the highest levels of security and certifications within the government that are necessary to win these types of contracts. Why don't I spend so much time on these things? There's a two milestone events, the CIA contract in two thousand thirteen and what will soon to be the Jet I contract in two thousand nineteen. And what we're seeing is Amazon Web services, a thirty billion dollars run rate company growing at forty plus percent per annum. It's just a massive flywheel effect that we always talk about on the Cube. So we're here in London because we wanted to see how the public sector activities of Amazon are translating into the European markets. So we're here at a special public sector mini summit, if you will. There's a healthcare predate going on. This is ahead of the eight of US London summit, and we're siphoning off a number of the practitioners in and and startups software companies. Eight of US partners in the health care industry, as well as a WS executives particularly focused on the public sector today. So we're doing this sort of. We followed the career of Teresa Carlson for a number of years, seen the ascendancy of a ws public sector. We've covered ah, public sector summit in D. C. We flew to Bahrain last year. John Fairy of my business partner did the Bahrain summit. Bahrain was the first country in the Middle East to declare cloud first. So ah, critical location in the Middle East and you're seeing it now. Europe across a number of industries, obviously n hs than Ethan's. National Health Service is a very prominent in in the UK in a in a big consumer of services all kinds of startups and other software companies trying to sell and helped transform The N H s N hs has ah put forth a half a billion dollars nearly a half a billion dollar pound initiative on modernization. Ah, lot of that modernization is evolving the cloud. So the cube is here. We're trying to peel back the onion, understand what's going on here. Who were the winners? Who was going to get affected? Practitioners of startups, CEOs, nonprofit organizations, NGOs, executives from a ws and across the industry. So we'LL be here. We have three events this week in Ah in London here today at eight of US headquarters in London. Ah, tonight we have an impact investor event and then tomorrow we're at the eight of us Summit in AA in London at the XL Center. So keep it right here. Watch this channel. 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