In this Cloud Wars guest post, author Jiri Kram explores how Salesforce might pivot and keep growing, if it says “sayonara” to Oracle databases.
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While the prospect of a Q2 downturn is real, the cloud industry’s 3 big hyperscalers generated Q1 revenue of $26.3B, and Amazon topped $10B for first time.
Despite the cloud revenue totals that Microsoft and Amazon announce each quarter, the media will continue its delusion that AWS is #1. Watch and see.
Six major vendors announce Q1 earnings soon: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, SAP, IBM, and ServiceNow. How will COVID-19 impact cloud growth?
As COVID-19 emerged as a pandemic, Microsoft, Amazon & Salesforce were among the first to establish WFH to protect employees & offer free tech solutions.
IT director Steve Schechter shares 4 steps he took to cut cloud-hosting costs for a client by nearly a third & how companies can keep costs down long-term.
Stream the first episode of “Araujo on Transformation,” a new podcast series from Cloud Wars Live with author and speaker Charles Araujo.
Stream the latest episode of the Cloud Wars Live podcast, where Sean Ammirati and I discuss the many reasons why Amazon should spin out AWS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is buying and building new firepower to outflank Microsoft and Amazon in the competitive enterprise-cloud marketplace.
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.
Stream the latest episode of Ammirati on Innovation, a Cloud Wars Live podcast, where we talk 2020 predictions, from Walmart to Slack to AWS and more.
Speaking to investors last month, Microsoft corporate VP for cloud marketing Takeshi Numoto says that cloud migrations with MSFT is cheaper than with AWS.