Next Generation Product Management:
Adapting To The Future
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Amazon and the CIA
Yes, it seems like strange partners, but Amazon Web Services (AWS) did sign a contract with the CIA to provide private cloud technology for $600M over 10 years. This is very much a different direction for them. Will they do more private clouds? Is this a trend for AWS or is it just one large transaction? What does this say about the CIA's cloud strategy? Several industry analysts have made comments about this since it is potentially a directions change. Of course the number of official comments from the CIA and AWS are pretty non-existent.
The Federal Computer Week article describes the transaction. Network World had an informative article, David Linthicum had comments in Infoworld, and Information Week has a good article on the topic.
I think that this is less of a strategic move by AWS to get into private clouds and more about a $600M opportunity and the opportunity to drive the federal government cloud strategy and future acquisitions. Obviously the more cloud infrastructure that Amazon has in place the closer they get to being a de facto standard. No wonder that VMware is nervous about the public cloud. |
Updates on "Big Data"
"Big Data", one of the industries newer and highly used buzzwords, is in fact impacting how applications are delivered, opening up new application areas and changing existing ones. Big Data is having an impact in the pharmaceutical business, along with green energy and healthcare. In fact there is a Big Data and Healthcare conference coming up soon in Boston.
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