ExxonMobil and Albertsons are the latest massive companies to buy Microsoft cloud to accelerate their digital transformations. Here’s why it matters.

Key takeaways from Walmart’s Q4 and full-year earnings results illustrate steps in the Walmart digital transformation journey with Microsoft and beyond.

Unleashing Micro-Opportunities || Cloud Wars’ “Christopher Lochhead on Different” celebrates difference in a world that encourages imitation.

What I find most interesting about Microsoft corporate VP for Azure marketing Julia White’s recent comments about SAP workloads migrating to Azure.

The Cloud Wars CEO priorities offer an intriguing picture of where those companies’ customers—the world’s leading businesses—are headed.

Google Cloud will compete with Microsoft to deliver enterprise tech to 2 billion firstline users, CEO Thomas Kurian indicated.

CEO Thomas Kurian revealed that Google Cloud’s established significant presence in about half of the world’s top 10 companies in multiple sectors.

Some compelling numbers about Microsoft’s new “IP co-sell partner program” and more partner strategies that the company is pursuing.

Official, publicly available financial documents filed by both companies with the SEC reveal the true winner in the Microsoft vs. Amazon Cloud battle.

Hear the Cloud Wars Live interview with Red Wing Shoes CIO and board member Marc Kermisch, who also heads up the company’s innovation center, The Garage.

Congratulations to Amazon Web Services’ Andy Jassy, my CEO of the year 2018, for a fabulous year and the recognition he and his company clearly deserve.

Qualtrics has become “the crown jewel of the company,” says SAP CEO Bill McDermott—and that the recent acqusition is driving SAP’s transformation.

On its recent earnings call, Alphabet did not specify Google Cloud revenue, but did confirm that Google Cloud is one of its fastest-growing businesses.

Within ServiceNow’s Q4 revenue growth, the most interesting story is how ServiceNow is creating a new category within SaaS by connecting siloed workflows.

I’ve extracted 10 notable comments from CEO Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood during last week’s Microsoft 2018 earnings call, on the cloud and more.

Microsoft has posted 2018 cloud revenue of $32.2 billion, giving it an insurmountable lead as the world’s largest cloud provider over Amazon.

Why CEOs Must Set Digital Mandate || Cloud Wars’ “Wayne Sadin on Digital Strategy” explores the roles of CEOs and boards in the Digital Age.

SAP CEO Bill McDermott vowed that his company’s $8-billion acquisition of Qualtrics will trigger “the biggest growth opportunity I’ve ever seen.”

SAP today predicted that its SAP cloud revenue will triple by 2023, thanks to its Qualtrics acquisition and the emerging “experience economy.”

What a new study of more than 700 finance leaders reveals about the future of cloud ERP and AI, especially for market leaders Oracle, Workday and SAP.

During IBM’s quarterly earnings call this week, CFO Jim Kavanagh mentioned “hybrid” 28 times, focusing on the IBM Future Hybrid Cloud,

The Microsoft-Kroger partnership allows the grocery giant to morph into a technology company that develops and sells modern cloud-based retail solutions.

IBM today said it has signed a cloud deal with BNP Paribas that one analyst believes could be valued at $2 billion, setting up a big 2019 for IBM.

IBM’s new hybrid cloud megadeals show why the vendor has retained the #5 spot in the Cloud Wars Top 10 here at the outset of 2019.

As Amazon battles with retailers in the grocery-store and drug-store sectors, Microsoft locks down contracts with a number of the world’s top retail chains.

What a recent blog post reveals about how AWS is gunning for victory in the Amazon versus Oracle cloud database competition.

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd is claiming that the enterprise-apps category will at some point in the future balloon to $400 billion.