by ezcloud | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, General
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 ezcloud | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, General
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 ezcloud | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, General
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 ezcloud | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, General
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 ezcloud | Sep 11, 2017 | General, Amazon Web Services
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 ezcloud | Sep 22, 2016 | General
If you want to raise creative kids, you need to teach them to think for themselves. To do this, Adam Grant, a professor of management at Wharton, author of the new book, “Originals,” and father of three, tells Business Insider, you need “to foster an...
