If Google’s founders have a secret list of “best hires we’ve ever made,” I would bet Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is near or at the top.
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Surging growth and massive potential have spurred Alphabet to break out the financial results of Google Cloud in a separate reporting segment.
Google Cloud retained its claim to being the fastest-growing cloud vendor by boosting its revenue 44.8% in Q3.
The Citrix Cloud Summit features strategic overviews of digital transformation and the vital role of the cloud in the global digital economy.
Can Microsoft and Google compete fiercely enough to win in revenue and collaboratively enough to keep peace with their major partners?
As we head into Q4, here are my thoughts on the 5 world-shaping tech vendors making up the top half of the Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings.
An overview of what we know and don’t know about the high-level details of Microsoft Azure revenue and Microsoft cloud revenue in general.
A few thoughts on why Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, and Google top the Cloud Wars list of the world’s largest and most-influential cloud providers.
With a 43% revenue-growth rate that was much higher than those of its larger rivals, Google Cloud continued to be the fastest-growing major cloud vendor.
In his concluding remarks to the Google Cloud Next ’20 keynote presentation, CEO Thomas Kurian struck an empathetic tone, exemplifying his leadership style.
While CEO Christian Klein insists that SAP owns all of its customer relationships, I see signs that its partnership with Google Cloud is deepening.
On CNBC in late May, Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison outlined how Google Cloud boosted the performance of Lowes.com and the company’s quarterly results.
To diginomica.com, SAP CEO Christian Klein predicted increasing tension with Microsoft & Google over applications & control over customer transformations.
While the two companies are currently strategic partners in cloud, SAP and Google Cloud could soon face off, as both focus on industry-specific apps.
In this Cloud Wars guest post, author Jiri Kram explores how Salesforce might pivot and keep growing, if it says “sayonara” to Oracle databases.
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.
Six major vendors announce Q1 earnings soon: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, SAP, IBM, and ServiceNow. How will COVID-19 impact cloud growth?
As impressive as the COVID-19 response from other cloud vendors has been, none of them in my estimation matches up to what Google Cloud is doing.