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Microsoft
Which cloud vendor or combination of vendors might have the tech depth, customer focus, marketing savvy, & deep pockets to beat Microsoft in the cloud?
The Microsoft & UBS deal is indicative of how the rapid spread of cloud-availability regions is enabling global corps to accelerate digital transformation.
Some additional perspective on Microsoft’s monster fiscal Q4 ($11 billion in commercial-cloud revenue!), with 10 key insights from its earnings call.
it was fascinating to see how Microsoft, Amazon and Workday used their latest earnings calls to highlight their broad efforts with machine learning.
Stream a new episode of Ammirati on Innovation, where Sean and I discuss Microsoft + OpenAI, and ask whether AI will truly shape the trajectory of humanity.
Market leader Microsoft and #2 Amazon generated HALF of the $37 billion in Q2 cloud revenue rung up by the Cloud Wars Top 10 vendors.
ServiceNow CEO John Donahoe cited a number of factors in its $3B annual revenue total, a focus on mobile solutions and its Microsoft deals stood out to me.
The expectations behind Microsoft investing $1 billion in partner OpenAI are thrilling, especially when you consider the leaders of each company.
During Microsoft’s July 18 earnings call, Satya Nadella for the first time asserted that the Microsoft cloud is bigger than Amazon cloud—and all others.
LinkedIn choosing to move its 645 million users to Azure poses some interesting questions. Ex: what features of the Microsoft cloud convinced LinkedIn?
12 months from now, Microsoft will likely bring in $50 billion in cloud revenue. Here are the three strategic reasons why that matters.
Microsoft just announced $11 billion quarterly cloud revenue, besting the combined totals of Salesforce, SAP, Oracle and IBM.
In a new blog post, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich spelled out the nature of three recent cloud failures and oulined changes to come. Here’s my take.
The SAP-Microsoft alliance continues to pile up big wins: one of Asia’s largest healthcare groups, Zuellig Pharma, will be on Azure by 2022.
“Wayne Sadin on Digital Strategy” episodes will explore the fast-changing and high-stakes world of digital business. We’ll focus on what…
The recent announcement of a new partnership between Microsoft and ServiceNow shows how Microsoft is besting Amazon in cloud: customer-centric deals.
Microsoft is extremely likely to crack the $10 billion mark in quarterly cloud revenue when it posts its fiscal Q4 numbers on July 18.
On this episode of Ammirati on Innovation, Sean and I talk about Microsoft and Oracle as bedfellows, balancing customer and user concerns, and much more.
Why I was surprised to hear Oracle execs revert to tired tropes, like Workday being “not competitive,” on an otherwise impactful Q4 earnings call.



















