@adam Yes, very smart arrangement, getting the most advanced cloud providers in the USA (and in this case in the world) to service the CIA in house.

@kaboro Larry Ellison was in his mid twenties when the CIA contracted him (a college drop out) and his associates to build what eventually became Oracle RDBMS. Their team/company was a startup then. Oracle was the name of the project, not the company.

Competence does not ignore aptitude in favor of of backward laws, regulations and fraud.

Keep in mind that the CIA initiative vis-a-vis Amazon is a private cloud.  The physical servers using AWS software are on CIA property.

This is part of my talk where I say that 'everybody' needs to move to Infrastructure as a Service.  The paradigm works even in hyper-sensitive environments like the CIA and the NSA (and banks).  The NSA uses OpenStack in case anybody's interested - again, the hardware is physically under NSA control.

-Adam

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On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Phares Kariuki via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
It took amazon 8 years of AWS to get into government. We've been around for 1. Part of the problem is comfort. Government isn't comfortable with younger companies. Governments horizon is longer term than most businesses. 

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:04 AM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com> wrote:

Waiting to see local initiative, skill, talent featured on www.ict.go.ke :)

On Feb 16, 2015 10:40 PM, "Phares Kariuki" <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
We are getting there. Currently, we do provide some county governments with services. Huduma centres were largely local save for the hardware. It takes time. We can change perceptions one day at a time 

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On Feb 16, 2015, at 5:30 PM, S.M. Muraya via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Outside South Africa and below North Africa, imagine if, at a Global Summit, African Presidents were asked to name homegrown IT firms their governments rely on for data storage &  security services.

http://searchaws.techtarget.com/opinion/CIA-invests-in-the-AWS-cloud-despite-security-concerns

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