IBM Calls Amazon Unprepared to Secure Intelligence Data

Against the backdrop of a $150 million lawsuit over a contract to build a secure computer cloud for the U.S. intelligence community, an IBM executive swiped at competitor Amazon last week, calling the company’s cloud services unreliable and not up to government standards.

“Amazon's definition of reliability doesn't measure up to what the federal government needs for mission critical workloads,” Andrew Maner, managing partner of IBM’s federal cloud business, told Nextgov.

Amazon is suing the government in an effort to claw back a contract it initially won to provide cloud computing services to the CIA and other intelligence agencies. The CIA later canceled and re-bid that contract after IBM complained to the Government Accountability Office. Read more...