by ray | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), General News, Tech News
The view from the Amazon Web Services building, in downtown Seattle. THE RUMORS ARE true. Amazon is providing cloud services to the CIA. But what’s most intriguing about the multi-million-dollar deal is not what Amazon is doing, but how the company is doing it –...
by ray | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), General News, Tech News
As the world’s biggest online retailer, Amazon wants a benevolent image to encourage trust from customers. Obtaining vast quantities of their personal information has been central to the firm’s business model. But Amazon is diversifying — and a few months ago the...
by ray | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), General News, Tech News
A $600 million computing cloud built by an outside company is a “radical departure” for the risk-averse intelligence community. The intelligence community is about to get the equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the chest. This summer, a $600 million...
by ray | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), General News, Tech News
Salesforce says its partnership with AWS is helping accelerate its growth in overseas markets. Salesforce still gets the bulk of its revenue from the North America market, with European and Asian markets accounting for less than 30% of its total sales. It continues to...
by ray | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive vice president of cloud and enterprise. Microsoft has long maintained that it has a secret weapon in the cloud wars against the Amazon Web Services juggernaut. The weapon is Microsoft’s existing inroads into the...
by ray | Sep 8, 2017 | Tech News, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Tools, Google, Google Cloud Platform
Datacenter / server room Microsoft has announced a milestone moment for its cloud aspirations with the news that it’s launching its very first data centers in Africa. Beginning in 2018, Microsoft will operate its range of cloud services — including Azure, Office 365,...
