Oracle’s 2020 challenge: Larry Ellison has always sought out confrontations, but the cloud adversaries he’s called out this year are especially formidable.

This episode is brought to you by Oracle. I spoke with Steve Daheb, Senior Vice President, Oracle Cloud, about all things Autonomous Database.

Microsoft Azure has become more popular than Amazon’s AWS as the public-cloud infrastructure of choice, according to a Goldman Sachs survey of 100 CIOs.

SAP’s big 2020 challenge is this: can it convince a marketplace that thinks in terms of ERP-HCM-ERP that experience management is the new model?

Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff has been the world’s primary driver of the CRM category’s ascendancy, so he is in a perfect position to redefine it for 2020.

Stream the latest episode of Cloud Wars Live, to hear Tony Uphoff share how ThomasNet is leveraging data and why leaders are displacing managers.

Amazon’s #1 challenge for 2020 is whether it can convince lots and lots of AWS customers to cut over to AWS from Oracle and its Autonomous Database.

The cloud vendor’s phenomenal growth will crumble if Microsoft Azure and its reputation for reliability is anything less than superb in 2020.

Stream the latest episode of Cloud Wars Live to hear Christopher Lochhead and I explain why data is the new cash, but better.

Taken on its own, the Microsoft $50 billion cloud business would make it one of the 3 largest enterprise-tech companies in the world.

A meta-article of the year’s top stories to guide you through what happened in 2019 and where things are headed in the Cloud Wars.

Apps Associates has released a new study, in which 82% of respondents said they’re looking to partner with an MSP to help with their journey to the cloud.

Stream this episode of the Cloud Wars Live podcast to hear Wayne Sadin ‘s recommendations, warnings and ideas from his 2020 memo to boards and the C-Suite.

There’s some fresh revenue data for Oracle and Salesforce SaaS clouds, allowing us to compare how customers are responding to the top dog and a top rival.

In last week’s Q2 earnings call, Larry Ellison predicted that Oracle Autonomous Database will render all other Oracle databases obsolete.

On a fiscal Q2 earnings call last week, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison seemed to be trashing competitors to mask Oracle’s low-growth transition to the cloud.

Workday says its Financials biz will become its biggest revenue driver, underscoring the vendor’s ability to be a broad-based supplier of enterprise apps.

Stream “Ammirati on Innovation,” where Sean Ammirati and I discuss breakout products: Disney+ and its 10 million downloads in 24 hours, but also SAP’s HXM.

Watch or stream the Cloud Wars interview with our CEO of the Year for 2019, Thomas Kurian of Google Cloud: his first year on the job and what comes next.

“We can actually bring our manufacturing closer to that customer, which by definition changes the supply chain.” – Tony Uphoff on Cloud Wars Live

Two enormous achievements delivered in his first year are the primary factors why Thomas Kurian of Google Cloud is the Cloud Wars CEO of the Year for 2019.

Why Salesforce executives are lavishing praise on MuleSoft and Tableau for transforming Marc Benioff’s company into a truly strategic player.

SAP and Salesforce both held investor-day events last month, based on which I made some educated guesses as to their future cloud revenue accomplishments.

My take on three specific competitive tech battles with the greatest strategic importance for business customers in 2020 and beyond.

A list of what each of the world-changing powerhouse vendors on my Cloud Wars Top 10 should be celebrating this Thanksgiving.

Rejuvenated by Red Hat and fusing traditional strengths w/ powerful innovation, IBM is redefining the booming cybersecurity market with new cloud solutions.

Salesforce this week laid out its plans to stay far ahead of Oracle & SAP in the SaaS market and reach a staggering $35 billion in revenue by 2024.