US Army grants HP $249 million contract to deploy private cloud services

I've been using the HP Cloud private beta for a while, and it's definitely interesting. It's basically Open Stack, and might make some sense vs. Amazon EC2 for clients with on premises (managed by HP consulting/professional services) and cloud hybrid.

It will be interesting to see HP Cloud vs. VMware (Terremark, etc.) vs. Amazon GovCloud in the enterprise/government space. EC2 vs. Rackspace is probably the bigger competition for most b2c webapps.