As COVID-19 emerged as a pandemic, Microsoft, Amazon & Salesforce were among the first to establish WFH to protect employees & offer free tech solutions.
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As COVID-19 drives millions to WFH, Microsoft Teams could be growing more rapidly in terms of users than any enterprise application in history.
Responding to the continued disruption of COVID-19, the CEOs of SAP and Microsoft shared powerful letters to their employees and extended communities.
Why Microsoft is offering Teams for free: “We are committed to helping organizations everywhere stay connected and productive during this difficult time.”
Every time I start to get the impression that Microsoft is trying to do too many things too quickly, I take a look at comments from CFO Amy Hood.
The Microsoft Teams marketing blitz matters, because Teams and Office 365 Commercial have become high-volume on-ramps for Azure and other cloud services.
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.