The Microsoft Teams marketing blitz matters, because Teams and Office 365 Commercial have become high-volume on-ramps for Azure and other cloud services.
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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.
Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that tech spending is set to double in the next decade. I’veI outlined 6 key factors in this ongoing surge.
TechCrunch recently stated that “Microsoft is miles behind [ AWS ].” But official financial documents show that Microsoft’s cloud biz is much larger.
Now that he’s got Microsoft innovating and executing as well as any company on Earth, Satya Nadella has set his sights on digitalizing the world.
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.
Here’s what stood out to me in Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s latest blog post about how the team is boosting Azure reliability.
Stream the latest episode of Sadin on Digital from Cloud Wars Live, to hear Wayne Sadin explain how legacy companies can flip the switch to modern tech.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is buying and building new firepower to outflank Microsoft and Amazon in the competitive enterprise-cloud marketplace.
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.
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.
The cloud vendor’s phenomenal growth will crumble if Microsoft Azure and its reputation for reliability is anything less than superb in 2020.
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.
My take on three specific competitive tech battles with the greatest strategic importance for business customers in 2020 and beyond.
Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud will now be tightly integrated with Microsoft Teams collaboration solutions, in a stinging blow to Amazon.
Microsoft said its new Azure Synapse Analytics executed a complex query 75x faster than Google’s BigQuery, and another 3x faster than Amazon’s Red Shift.