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 10, 2017 | Security, General News, Tech News
00:12 We are all activists now. 00:15 (Applause) 00:16 Thank you. 00:18 I’ll just stop here. 00:19 (Laughter) 00:21 From the families who are fighting to maintain funding for public schools, the tens of thousands of people who joined Occupy Wall Street or...
by ray | Sep 10, 2017 | Security, General News, Tech News
CLOUD WARS — Enterprise-tech heavyweights Oracle and Microsoft each jumped into the red-hot market for blockchain digital technology on the very same day, and one of them looks fully prepared (that would be Microsoft) while the other looks like it’s...
