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Hey, IT Staff, Get Off My Cloud
[qi:gigaom_icon_cloud-computing] The Central Intelligence Agency “endorses cloud computing, but only internally,” according to an article today at ComputerWorld, which has me thinking it is more likely...
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Social Network Use in the Office Could Spur Better Enterprise Technology
Social networking has generally been discouraged in the workplace, with many corporate IT departments blocking access to sites like Facebook and MySpace due to privacy concerns. But these efforts are...
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Wikileaks Asks CIA to Stop Spying on It
Wikileaks, the crusading non-profit web site that publishes documents companies and governments don’t want released, is alleging that the U.S. State Department and possibly the CIA have been spying on...
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Former CIA Director Jim Woolsey Joins Lux Capital
Former CIA Director, and colorful energy security advocate, Jim Woolsey has left greentech firm VantagePoint Venture Partners, and has joined East Coast firm Lux Capital as a partner, focused on...
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Cisco VP who is a former CIA officer will make finding leaks his “hobby”
A Network World article details how Cisco VP Mike Quinn, a former CIA operations officer (back in the 1980s) is going after the person or people who leaked company memos to the magazine. Part of his...
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Report: The CIA and Amazon are in cahoots over secret cloud
Now here’s a story that will probably never get confirmed: Federal Computer Week is reporting that the Central Intelligence Agency has contracted cloud kingpin Amazon Web Services to build a private...
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Even the CIA is struggling to deal with the volume of real-time social data
Thanks to spy movies and other entertainment fare, we all have our own picture of what the Central Intelligence Agency is like — but the agency’s chief technology officer, Ira “Gus” Hunt, told...
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The week in cloud: reports of a spy cloud from Amazon and lotsa outages
Amazon reportedly to build CIA secret cloud Probably the biggest news of the week was a Federal Computer Week report that public cloud leader Amazon is building a private cloud for the CIA. Citing...
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New Amazon CloudHSM service vows enterprise-grade security
Amazon Web Services runs on tons and tons of shared hardware. That’s a huge benefit in terms of cost but also spooks customers with strict regulatory requirements that prevent them from running their...
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Cloud and data first-quarter 2013: analysis and outlook
Cloud computing is finally starting to add value to business, as those in charge of cloud within enterprises are moving from talking to doing. That much was very evident in the first quarter of 2013....
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GAO says “not so fast” on proposed secret Amazon-CIA cloud
Remember that proposed secure cloud that Amazon was building for the CIA but that no one would acknowledge? Well it looks like it’s on hold, because the U.S. Government Accountability Office has sided...
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NSA whistle-blower revealed: 29-year-old former CIA staffer says he felt...
Another bombshell dropped on Saturday in the ongoing revelations surrounding the federal government’s PRISM surveillance program: the man who leaked the top-secret documents about the program came...
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CIA cloud battle redux? U.S. defense agency puts cloud work out to bid
The Defense Information Systems Agency has put a $450 million cloud contract out to bid in a request for proposals released Monday. The project will cover cloud storage, virtual machines, database and...
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New PRISM slides say the program allows NSA to eavesdrop on live conversations
As controversy continues to swirl around whistleblower Edward Snowden and his whereabouts, the Washington Post has published several more slides from the NSA presentation that the former CIA staffer...
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Amazon takes fight over CIA cloud back to IBM
As expected, the cloud spat between IBM and Amazon over which company should build the now-not-so-secret CIA cloud, is turning into a drawn out affair. The latest wrinkle is that Amazon, which won the...
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Why the CIA cloud contract is worth so much more than $600M; the week in cloud
We all knew the battle between IBM and Amazon Web Services over which gets to build the CIA cloud goes well beyond the $600 million contract itself. With the U.S. government’s “cloud-first” initiative...
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Amazon strikes back at GAO, IBM over reopening of CIA cloud contract
Welcome to government work. Amazon Web Services, in a filing made public Tuesday, slammed the Government Accountability Office for putting its winning bid to build the CIA’s public cloud on hold. IBM,...
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Amazon gets (more) serious about government cloud
Not that you probably needed it, but here’s more proof that Amazon Web Services is dead serious about getting more government work. First, CloudFormation, the company’s tool that lets systems...
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The IBM-Amazon battle over the CIA cloud rages on
The big brouhaha brewing over who gets to build the CIA cloud will continue in a few weeks with oral arguments scheduled for October 7. Both Amazon Web Services and IBM want to claim that business. The...
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What you missed in cloud in the third quarter of 2013
Slower and less-hyped growth occurred in the cloud computing marketplace in the third quarter, including noticeably less news coming from cloud computing providers.Related research and analysis from...
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