By my projections, the world’s top 10 enterprise-cloud vendors are poised to generate $158 billion in cloud revenue in calendar 2019.

The vibrancy of the dynamic SaaS segment is on full display in new customer-centric initiatives from Cloud Wars leaders Salesforce and Workday.

Speaking at a recent investors conference, Aneel Bhusri touched on the Workday + Walmart deal, and how new people-based apps have doubled the HCM market.

This episode is brought to you by Oracle. || Stream my conversation with Craig Wilensky, CEO at JASCI software and advocate of Oracle’s autonomous database.

Betting that its $34-billion acquisition of Red Hat will trigger new growth, IBM says its two-year overhaul of its vast…

Google Cloud expanding its deal with VMware reveals Kurian’s commitment to offering customers choices, even if those customers choose competitors over GCP.

Some additional perspective on Microsoft’s monster fiscal Q4 ($11 billion in commercial-cloud revenue!), with 10 key insights from its earnings call.

Details are emerging about how Red Hat might make IBM’s $19-billion cloud business an engine of growth once again. Here are some insights into the plan.

it was fascinating to see how Microsoft, Amazon and Workday used their latest earnings calls to highlight their broad efforts with machine learning.

Stream a new episode of Ammirati on Innovation, where Sean and I discuss Microsoft + OpenAI, and ask whether AI will truly shape the trajectory of humanity.

Market leader Microsoft and #2 Amazon generated HALF of the $37 billion in Q2 cloud revenue rung up by the Cloud Wars Top 10 vendors.

Sparked by CEO Thomas Kurian’s customer-centric leadership, Google Cloud has moved up to #6 in the Cloud Wars Top 10 on the strength of its recent $2B Q.

ServiceNow CEO John Donahoe cited a number of factors in its $3B annual revenue total, a focus on mobile solutions and its Microsoft deals stood out to me.

The expectations behind Microsoft investing $1 billion in partner OpenAI are thrilling, especially when you consider the leaders of each company.

In disclosing Q2 earnings results late last week, Amazon pounded home AWS revenue growth, plus advances in red-hot machine learning and blockchain.

10 key points from last week’s earnings call offer insights into what propelled Google Cloud to its recently announced $2 billion quarter.

Alphabet disclosed yesterday that Google Cloud generated quarterly revenue of more than $2 billion for Q2, the 3 months ended June 30. Here’s why.

What’s the Chief Growth Officer role all about? Why is America losing the AI war to Russia and China? Stream the latest episode of Lochhead on Different.

During Microsoft’s July 18 earnings call, Satya Nadella for the first time asserted that the Microsoft cloud is bigger than Amazon cloud—and all others.

LinkedIn choosing to move its 645 million users to Azure poses some interesting questions. Ex: what features of the Microsoft cloud convinced LinkedIn?

12 months from now, Microsoft will likely bring in $50 billion in cloud revenue. Here are the three strategic reasons why that matters.

In this podcast episode: ThomasNet.com CEO Tony Uphoff and I discuss the business implications of a changing U.S. workforce made of 50% millennials.

Quarterly revenue misses should be taken seriously. But I’m betting the SAP Q2 stumble was an aberration. Here’s how the company will get back to growth.

Microsoft just announced $11 billion quarterly cloud revenue, besting the combined totals of Salesforce, SAP, Oracle and IBM.

How can IBM’s cloud revenue growth be just 8% for Q2? Just 18 months ago, the company generated more quarterly cloud revenue than Microsoft or Amazon.

In a new blog post, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich spelled out the nature of three recent cloud failures and oulined changes to come. Here’s my take.

The recent Oracle Analytics Summit will be regarded as a turning point, as the company reset its strategy around customers, simplicity and integration.