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posted by janrinok on Monday May 21 2018, @03:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the spy-vs-spy dept.

Microsoft has secured a potentially lucrative agreement that makes the full suite of the tech giant's cloud-computing platform available to 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, executives said recently, moving agencies' computer systems onto Office 365 applications and adding certain cloud-based applications not previously available to them.

The agreement could strengthen Microsoft's prospects for winning government business at a time when it is locked in competition with some of the world's biggest tech companies for a Pentagon cloud-computing contract that is expected to be worth billions.

For years, Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides cloud computing for businesses and government agencies, has been the primary provider of cloud services to U.S. intelligence agencies, thanks to a $600 million contract with the CIA. (Amazon founder Jeffrey Bezos also owns The Washington Post.)

That remains the case after the recent agreement. Still, executives from Microsoft framed the contract agreement as an "awakening."

"This is a huge win from a Microsoft perspective," said Dana Barnes, vice president of the company's joint and defense agencies business unit. "It's kind of an awakening as far as the intelligence community is concerned that you can't be a one-cloud community."

http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2018/05/microsoft_makes_inroads_with_u.html


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @04:05PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @04:05PM (#682234)

    > For years, Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides cloud computing for businesses and government agencies, has been the primary provider of cloud services to U.S. intelligence agencies, thanks to a $600 million contract with the CIA. (Amazon founder Jeffrey Bezos also owns The Washington Post.)

    Note that the Amazon contract to provide cloud services to the intelligence agencies predated Bezos' purchase of the Washington Post. The AWS deal was signed in early 2013 and Bezos announced his purchase of the newspaper in August 2013.

    The original article was not clear on this point.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @04:15PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @04:15PM (#682237)

    can you elaborate for us why this is important to know and then clarify?

    the article doesn't seem to have gained anything by adding the extra info.

    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday May 21 2018, @05:30PM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday May 21 2018, @05:30PM (#682282) Homepage Journal

      Cloud is a very special kind of internet. The #AmazonWashingtonPost [twitter.com], sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS!! How do I feel about internet tax? I try to avoid paying it whenever possible. But the idea is an idea that a lot of people like very much.