Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is buying and building new firepower to outflank Microsoft and Amazon in the competitive enterprise-cloud marketplace.
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How does new CEO Bill McDermott plan to meet ServiceNow’s 2020 challenge, of reaching $10B in revenue & setting new standards for the biz-software industry?
Workday has set itself apart from primary rivals SAP and Oracle. But the challenge for Workday in 2020 will be this: can it hold or even extend that lead?
As 2020 gets underway, and IBM prepares to release its Q4 2019 numbers, it’s perfectly clear that the #1 challenge IBM’s cloud business faces is growth.
In 2020, Google Cloud’s top challenge will be creating a new breed of enterprise apps that exploit its capabilities in data, ML, AI, analytics & beyond.
Speaking to investors last month, Microsoft corporate VP for cloud marketing Takeshi Numoto says that cloud migrations with MSFT is cheaper than with AWS.
Oracle’s 2020 challenge: Larry Ellison has always sought out confrontations, but the cloud adversaries he’s called out this year are especially formidable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.