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It's the first option. They are pretty intent on making sure their spending doesn't make its way back to their biggest competitor.
by athenot 9y ago
It's the first option. They are pretty intent on making sure their spending doesn't make its way back to their biggest competitor.
- throwaway2048 9y agoDon't discount the latter option, corporate espionage is a very real thing that goes on far more often than people realize. Of course im about to be shouted down by a bunch of posts with [citation needed], well guess what, the goal of business like this is to ensure that nobody can ever make such a citation. There is a reason Google, Intel and Apple are extremely paranoid about their internal data, and Walmart too. Its no coincidence this goes hand in hand with being very successful and leaders in their field.
- mbreese 9y agoIt doesn't even have to be anything nefarious. For example just tracking network traffic (amount, not content) would be a good signal for a competitor (like Amazon) to monitor. If supplier A started getting a lot more network traffic from Walmart IP addresses and supplier B less, then that's a tell that someone could be interested in.
- noir_lord 9y agoThe digital version of using satellites to count lorries in warehouse yards and cars in supermarket car parks. Which also happens and is fascinating.
- devmunchies 9y agoApple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Walmart, and Amazon are all our clients, and Apple had strictest requirements of all of them. They want to guarantee that nobody is looking at their data.
- bsimpson 9y agoThey certainly aren't the only major retailer to have an embargo against AWS because of Amazon's retail business.