Mar 2, 2021
Online propaganda is a rapidly growing problem, leaving chaos, mistrust, and revolutions rumblings in its wake.
Broad propaganda penetration is achieved by following a specific set of steps, and a new report from IDC Government Insights, “Propaganda as a Service: Addressing the Economics Behind Global Disinformation Engines”, helps government agencies understand these steps and the economics behind them.
The most successful generators of false news use large networks of pop-up news sites and bot networks to help echo sentiments and increase pass-along rates. These types of “false information generation” activities can and should be monitored and mitigated by governments.
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Government cloud computing has been taken over by AWS and Microsoft, who ve locked up the market.
Standing out and winning big deals means investing in software, AI, and security capabilities.
Analysts say using multiple cloud providers is increasingly normal, but management is an issue.
As the pandemic forced companies to quickly adapt to remote work and provide the tools to enable workers to do so, the federal government did too accelerating its spend on cloud-based tools and services to nearly $900 million, according to analysts.
Microsoft caught up to AWS, thanks to its cloud software Scott Guthrie, Microsoft s executive vice president of cloud and AI, oversees Azure and was once described by an analyst as a cloud visionary. Stephen Lam/Getty Images
Analysts also agreed that Microsoft isn t catching up to Amazon anymore they re nearly neck-and-neck in the federal market now.
McCarthy said Microsoft succeeded thanks to the popularity of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure. Microsoft 365 includes Office 365, the company s line of productivity software, while Azure is its cloud computing service that more directly competes with AWS. Amazon doesn t have a direct competitor to Microsoft 365, and focuses instead on its core infrastructure cloud platform.
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