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.
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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.
My predictions: as they fuel the transformation of the global economy, the Cloud Wars Top 10 vendors will post a whopping $36 billion in Q2 cloud revenue.
Microsoft has massive influence as the world’s #1 cloud-computing provider, so it is inevitably a major player in the revolution in the SaaS business.
As the enterprise cloud becomes without question the foundation for digital business, we’ve graded the Top 10 vendors. This is the Cloud Wars report card.
My take on the shocking new partnership between Microsoft and Oracle, and what each powerhouse cloud vendor gets out of the deal.
“Hybrid Everywhere Plus Trusted Partnerships” | My conversation with Arpan Shah, GM for Azure Infrastructure Marketing, about Microsoft’s cloud strategy.
The recently announced SAP and Microsoft Embrace program builds on the partners’ 25-year relationship and dramatically benefits both companies.
In an astonishing update from Sapphire 2019, Microsoft will hire hundreds of dedicated SAP experts to sell SAP Cloud applications to Azure customers.
Disney+/Netflix, Qualtrics, and Moonshots || This episode of Ammirati on Innovation explores “moonshots” in the context of SAP/Qualtrics, Disney+, and more.
The three fastest-growing tech companies in the Top 10 each rang up revenue-growth rates of 41% to start 2019. Here’s my take on the top cloud vendors, Q1.



















