Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced his company’s record Q4 and fiscal-2020 earnings results, along with the departure of former co-CEO Keith Block.

As Workday prepares to release quarterly and 12-month financial results later today, let’s consider its tagline: “Built for the Future.”

Stream a new Cloud Wars Live podcast with Peter Steube of ETR, to hear what the survey firm is seeing around increased spending on Google Cloud.

Stream the latest Cloud Wars Live podast: Tony Uphoff explains how the response to coronavirus in Wuhan illuminates changes in modern manufacturing.

Continuing its rapid ascent under CEO Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud as jumped two spots to #4 on the Cloud Wars Top 10. Here are the 3 main reasons.

The Microsoft Teams marketing blitz matters, because Teams and Office 365 Commercial have become high-volume on-ramps for Azure and other cloud services.

Emphasizing the “differentiated” offerings from Google Cloud, CEO Thomas Kurian said last week that his #1 priority is to create a new AI-powered solutions.

Stream the Cloud Wars Live podcast. Christopher Lochhead apes John Doerr’s famous statement about the internet in the 90s to say: the cloud is underhyped.

Stream the latest Cloud Wars Live podcast. Wayne Sadin and I discuss the promise of shadow IT, or collaborative IT: creating a single source of truth.

Revenue is just one of many factors we use in our weekly ranking of the world’s top cloud vendors, but the raw dollar data reveals some interesting points.

At a recent Goldman Sachs investors conference, Thomas Kurian was asked during for this thoughts on the AWS Super Bowl ads.

Read my open letter response to reports that AWS CEO Andy Jassy said that it’s “folklore” to believe Amazon chews up every industry it enters.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said to CNBC this week that his company’s 53% jump in revenue means it’s growing faster than Microsoft and Amazon’s AWS.

There’s much more here than simple sniping from marketplace rivals. Here’s what stood out to me from the recent SAP Q4 earnings call.

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott recently offered a come-one, come-all invitation to enterprise-apps players like Salesforce and SAP to partner up for CRM.

Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that tech spending is set to double in the next decade. I’veI outlined 6 key factors in this ongoing surge.

Google Cloud reported a Q4 53% growth rate and a $10.4 billion annualized run rate, but the only way it can catch Amazon is through aggressive M&A.

TechCrunch recently stated that “Microsoft is miles behind [ AWS ].” But official financial documents show that Microsoft’s cloud biz is much larger.

Now that he’s got Microsoft innovating and executing as well as any company on Earth, Satya Nadella has set his sights on digitalizing the world.

The most-disruptive initiative at high-flying ServiceNow is how new CEO Bill McDermott is redefining and redirecting the enterprise software business.

For Microsoft, another blowout quarter brings its total enterprise-cloud revenue for calendar 2019 to $44.7 billion. I expect Amazon’s to be $34.8 billion.

On yesterday’s Q4 earnings call, SAP said Qualtrics & experience management are its growth engines for the future, but that it won’t abandon its past.

Stream the latest episode of Cloud Wars Live, to hear Tony Uphoff explain why Industry 4.0 will kick into full swing in 2020—and what the impact will be.

Here’s what stood out to me in Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s latest blog post about how the team is boosting Azure reliability.

Larry Ellison recently claimed that he convinced a huge SAP customer to move to Oracle Cloud ERP. SAP co-CEO Christian Klein is denying any such defection.

IBM Cloud resurgence will be short-lived unless CEO Ginni Rometty makes bold changes, but the company did have a Q4 growth spurt. I chose 10 examples.

IBM saw its Q4 cloud revenue jump 23%. But CEO Ginni Rometty cannot afford another post-Q4 dropoff. I’ve brainstormed 5 ways that IBM can maintain its pace.