Re: IBM vs. Amazon for Cloud
On 07/21/2013 09:46 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Interesting article on how IBM is working to capture the Cloud share. http://news.yahoo.com/amazon-vs-ibm-big-blue-120912394.html By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The tech industry maxim that no one ever got fired for buying IBM is a testament to how Big Blue has been the gold standard in computing services for decades. But IBM faces an unlikely challenger in Amazon.com Inc(NSQ:AMZN), the e-commerce retail giant that is becoming a force in the booming business of cloud computing, even winning backing from America's top spy agency. After years of being dismissed as a supplier of online computer services to startups and small businesses, Amazon Web Services (AWS) beat out International Business Machines(NYS:IBM) this year to snag a $600 million contract with the Central Intelligence Agency. IBM has successfully appealed its loss in the contest, stalling it for now. But the episode highlights how Amazon is evolving from an online retailer into a competitive provider of information technology and services to big companies, and government bodies. IBM bought SoftLayer Technologies, a rival to AWS, for $2 billion in June. That could help it when the CIA comes calling again, said Bill Moran at Ptak Associates. Lizette If one were into wild conspiracy theories, then obviously the government spy agencies are trying to encourage expansion of the Amazon cloud services because they believe they will be able monitor everyone else's cloud activities more easily if they are managed by Amazon rather than IBM. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IBM vs. Amazon for Cloud
jcew...@acm.org (Joel C. Ewing) writes: If one were into wild conspiracy theories, then obviously the government spy agencies are trying to encourage expansion of the Amazon cloud services because they believe they will be able monitor everyone else's cloud activities more easily if they are managed by Amazon rather than IBM. a different conspiracy theory ... privatizing gov. intelligence by for-profit companies the head of IBM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr. leaves and becomes chairman of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group which then does private equity buyout of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton Spies Like Us http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/ from above: Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than half of the available manpower. ... snip ... How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington with for-profit companies prevasive presence in the intelligence world, there has been instances of levaging the infrastructures for economic industrial espionage (aka 70% of gov. intelligence is currently for-profit companies). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
IBM vs. Amazon for Cloud
Interesting article on how IBM is working to capture the Cloud share. http://news.yahoo.com/amazon-vs-ibm-big-blue-120912394.html By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The tech industry maxim that no one ever got fired for buying IBM is a testament to how Big Blue has been the gold standard in computing services for decades. But IBM faces an unlikely challenger in Amazon.com Inc(NSQ:AMZN), the e-commerce retail giant that is becoming a force in the booming business of cloud computing, even winning backing from America's top spy agency. After years of being dismissed as a supplier of online computer services to startups and small businesses, Amazon Web Services (AWS) beat out International Business Machines(NYS:IBM) this year to snag a $600 million contract with the Central Intelligence Agency. IBM has successfully appealed its loss in the contest, stalling it for now. But the episode highlights how Amazon is evolving from an online retailer into a competitive provider of information technology and services to big companies, and government bodies. IBM bought SoftLayer Technologies, a rival to AWS, for $2 billion in June. That could help it when the CIA comes calling again, said Bill Moran at Ptak Associates. Lizette -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IBM vs. Amazon for Cloud
Lizette, Sounds like IBM is expanding their business. Not a bad thing, especially in this economy. Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Interesting article on how IBM is working to capture the Cloud share. http://news.yahoo.com/amazon-vs-ibm-big-blue-120912394.html By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The tech industry maxim that no one ever got fired for buying IBM is a testament to how Big Blue has been the gold standard in computing services for decades. But IBM faces an unlikely challenger in Amazon.com Inc(NSQ:AMZN), the e-commerce retail giant that is becoming a force in the booming business of cloud computing, even winning backing from America's top spy agency. After years of being dismissed as a supplier of online computer services to startups and small businesses, Amazon Web Services (AWS) beat out International Business Machines(NYS:IBM) this year to snag a $600 million contract with the Central Intelligence Agency. IBM has successfully appealed its loss in the contest, stalling it for now. But the episode highlights how Amazon is evolving from an online retailer into a competitive provider of information technology and services to big companies, and government bodies. IBM bought SoftLayer Technologies, a rival to AWS, for $2 billion in June. That could help it when the CIA comes calling again, said Bill Moran at Ptak Associates. Lizette -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IBM vs. Amazon for Cloud
Very interesting article. About a year ago I read that Amazon's profit margins on AWS were north of 40% as compared to 2% for their etailing biz. If you were Amazon,which portion of the business would be most aggresively trying to grow? Anyone who does not think that Amazon is a major IT player is kidding themselves. Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S™4, an ATT 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com Date: 07/21/2013 10:46 AM (GMT-05:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBM vs. Amazon for Cloud Interesting article on how IBM is working to capture the Cloud share. http://news.yahoo.com/amazon-vs-ibm-big-blue-120912394.html By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The tech industry maxim that no one ever got fired for buying IBM is a testament to how Big Blue has been the gold standard in computing services for decades. But IBM faces an unlikely challenger in Amazon.com Inc(NSQ:AMZN), the e-commerce retail giant that is becoming a force in the booming business of cloud computing, even winning backing from America's top spy agency. After years of being dismissed as a supplier of online computer services to startups and small businesses, Amazon Web Services (AWS) beat out International Business Machines(NYS:IBM) this year to snag a $600 million contract with the Central Intelligence Agency. IBM has successfully appealed its loss in the contest, stalling it for now. But the episode highlights how Amazon is evolving from an online retailer into a competitive provider of information technology and services to big companies, and government bodies. IBM bought SoftLayer Technologies, a rival to AWS, for $2 billion in June. That could help it when the CIA comes calling again, said Bill Moran at Ptak Associates. Lizette -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
