Microsoft offers US government $6 billion in savings on cloud services
President Donald Trump, on June 19, 2017, he waved with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, a Microsoft CEO during the round table of an American technology council in Washington.
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Microsoft The US General Services Administration agreed to provide a potential savings of $ 3.1 billion in cloud services used in state institutions for a year.
Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, GSA has tried to increase spending through a strategy aimed at lowering prices called Ongov. Adobe– Amazon– Google And Salesforce Already came to the fore with discounts.
Microsoft said that agencies should buy them over GSA to benefit from Microsoft savings by September 2026.
Discounts are valid for Microsoft’s office productivity subscriptions, as well as Azure Cloud infrastructure, Dynamics 365 business applications and Sentinel Cyber Security Software. The company said Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 G5 subscription for millions of workers for a year free access to Copilot Artificial Intelligence Assistant.
Josh Gruenbaum, who left the position of the director in the Private Capital Company KKR in order to become a commissioner of GSA’s federal purchasing service after the second period of Trump, said that agencies could easily pass at a lower price.
In an interview, Gruenbaum said that GSA has supervised approximately 110 billion dollars from the total expenditures of 450 billion dollars throughout the federal government, and from many agents to common goods and services. GSA is trying to suck for NASA and National Health Institutes, executive order Gruenbaum said Trump signed in March.
Gruenbaum said that spending approximately 80 billion dollars depends on it, and Microsoft’s annual US government revenue is probably billions of dollars in mid -billions of dollars.
“It is not surprising that it is one of the most critical partners for the federal government in terms of the software of Microsoft and the vehicles we use on both the civilian side and the defense side,” Gruenbaum said. He said.
Gruenbaum said he had repeatedly talked about the agreement with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
“I think the biggest piece wants to partner with this management and to do it right to adopt AI.” He said. “But I think he wants to get market share from other vehicles and services outside.”
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