Amazon vs IBM: Big Blue meets match in battle for the cloud


  • TECH
  • Monday, 22 Jul 2013

SAN FRANCISCO: 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, 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. 

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