With the news of two new Microsoft acquisitions in the networking and telecom space, traditional players in that industry better step up their game.
Cloud Revenue
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 COVID-19’s economic toll, Microsoft’s strong Q1 growth indicates that the 5 largest cloud vendors could generate cloud revenue of $150B+ in 2020.
In Q1, Google Cloud again achieved a cloud-revenue growth rate that was significantly higher than much-larger competitors Microsoft and Amazon’s AWS.
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.
Two weeks into his new role, Krishna used yesterday’s IBM Q1 earnings call to explain his plans for returning growth to IBM.
Six major vendors announce Q1 earnings soon: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, SAP, IBM, and ServiceNow. How will COVID-19 impact cloud growth?
A stunning statistic that reveals how rapidly the cloud has become not just a solid contributor, but, at least for SAP, the dominant new revenue driver.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: “With our recent acquisition of Tableau, we’re turning Customer 360 data into actionable insights… available to every user.”
The scary thing about Salesforce and its record-busting fiscal Q4 is that its growth rate is accelerating as it nears a $20 billion annualized run rate.
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.
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.
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.
IBM Cloud resurgence will be short-lived unless CEO Ginni Rometty makes bold changes, but the company did have a Q4 growth spurt. I chose 10 examples.
IBM saw its Q4 cloud revenue jump 23%. But CEO Ginni Rometty cannot afford another post-Q4 dropoff. I’ve brainstormed 5 ways that IBM can maintain its pace.
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?
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.
Taken on its own, the Microsoft $50 billion cloud business would make it one of the 3 largest enterprise-tech companies in the world.
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.