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 computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the Central Intelligence Agency over the past year will begin servicing all 17 agencies that make up the intelligence community.… Read more

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.… Read more

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 business software market.… Read more