<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>-Adam</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">--</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Kili - Cloud for Africa: <a href="http://kili.io/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">kili.io</a><br></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Musings:<a href="https://twitter.com/varud" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"> twitter.com/varud</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">More Musings: <a href="http://varud.com" target="_blank">varud.com</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">About Adam: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson</a></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Phares Kariuki via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">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. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:04 AM, S.M. Muraya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:murigi.muraya@gmail.com" target="_blank">murigi.muraya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Waiting to see local initiative, skill, talent featured on <a href="http://www.ict.go.ke" target="_blank">www.ict.go.ke</a> :)</p><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 16, 2015 10:40 PM, "Phares Kariuki" <<a href="mailto:pkariuki@gmail.com" target="_blank">pkariuki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>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 <br><br>--<div>Phares </div></div><div><br>On Feb 16, 2015, at 5:30 PM, S.M. Muraya via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">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. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://searchaws.techtarget.com/opinion/CIA-invests-in-the-AWS-cloud-despite-security-concerns" target="_blank">http://searchaws.techtarget.com/opinion/CIA-invests-in-the-AWS-cloud-despite-security-concerns</a></p>
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