{"id":980,"date":"2013-03-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/the-cia-is-about-to-sign-a-game-changing-600-million-deal-with-amazon\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:38:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:38:31","slug":"the-cia-is-about-to-sign-a-game-changing-600-million-deal-with-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/the-cia-is-about-to-sign-a-game-changing-600-million-deal-with-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"The CIA Is About To Sign A Game-Changing $600 Million Deal With Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA is on the verge of signing a cloud computing contract with Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years, reports Frank Konkel at Federal Computer Week. If the details about this deal are true, it could be a game-changer for the enterprise cloud market. That&#8217;s because Amazon Web Services will help the CIA build a &#8220;private cloud&#8221; filled with technologies like big data, reports Konkel, citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In general, the term &#8220;private cloud&#8221; means using cloud computing technologies in a company&#8217;s own data center.  This still uses hardware hosted by Amazon, but adds extra security to make it behave more like a private datacenter.<\/p>\n<p>If Amazon were really to enter the private cloud business, this could be a big threat to VMware and Citrix, the two biggest players in this market. <\/p>\n<p>Whether Amazon has had a massive change of heart about private clouds or not, gaining the CIA as a customer is a major coup.   Competitors like IBM, HP, and Rackspace say their clouds are more reliable and far more secure than Amazon&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>Link: http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cia-600-million-deal-for-amazons-cloud-2013-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3467,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}