Oracle maintains its position as the world’s hottest major cloud vendor with 54% growth in Q2, followed by Google Cloud at 28% and ServiceNow at 25%.
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The four fastest growing cloud vendors’ financial results indicate an upturn in customer spending and preparation for the generative AI revolution.
Despite AWS’s impressive scale and achievements, its rivals are gaining ground in other software-centered segments of the cloud. AWS may face challenges in the Cloud Wars going forward.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a decline in its growth rate for the seventh straight quarter amid fierce competition from Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Oracle.
Approaching the release of the Q2 financial results of Amazon, AWS’ growth rate decline stands out relative to Cloud Wars Top 10 adversaries.
Although it’s not as big as other Cloud Wars Top 10 companies, the growth rate of Oracle has been accelerating at a higher rate than that of competitors.
Cloud Wars Live monthly guest Bonnie Tinder shares customer reviews on Oracle, SAP, and Workday software implementations.
Bob Evans shares his thoughts on Salesforce’s 9% price increase across many of its product lines, and suggests competitors Oracle and SAP will respond aggressively.
Will customers go along with Salesforce’s price increases? If they don’t, that creates new opportunities for Oracle and SAP.
Oracle Industries EVP Mike Sicilia explains why banks are shifting to the cloud, citing elasticity, security, and greater velocity.
Oracle Industries EVP Mike Sicilia tells Bob Evans how Oracle brings its vertical industry capabilities to the financial services industry.
Oracle leverages generative AI in Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM to boost productivity by enabling automated content generation, intelligent recruiting, and data summarization.
Market-leading growth rate, compared with the decline in AWS’ growth, raises the specter of Oracle overtaking Amazon in the Cloud Wars Top 10.
Bob revisits the Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings as the latest growth rates of Oracle might move it up the ranks past Amazon’s AWS.
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Get a preview of our Cloud Wars Top 10 course on how buying committees and C-level executives can use the cloud ranking to support purchase decisions.
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Per Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Oracle MySQL HeatWave runs 1,000x faster than competitor AWS’ Aurora database, writes Bob Evans.
Oracle founder and chairman Larry Ellison stated on the company’s most recent earnings call that its MySQL Heatwave database is 1,000x faster than AWS Aurora.
With its EU Sovereign Cloud, Oracle aims to address common risks associated with data residency, privacy, and management.