Seven months ago, when Walmart and Microsoft signed a massive 5-year deal to drive sweeping modernization and change across the world’s largest company, CIO Clay Johnson said his primary goal was to accelerate the digital transformation of a company with 2 million employees and daily...
On the heels of Azure’s 76% revenue surge in Q4, Microsoft is seeing a “huge pipeline” for mission-critical SAP apps moving to Azure, along with triple-digit growth in its data-services business and strong ongoing demand for its hybrid-cloud offerings. As SAP pushes all of its customers...
Now that we’re 50 days into 2019, which priorities and initiatives are top of mind for the Cloud Wars CEOs and other leaders of the cloud companies driving one of the biggest growth markets the tech industry and the business world have ever seen? In combination,...
Google Cloud, looking to differentiate itself and raise its profile in the hotly contested enterprise-cloud market, is going right up against market leader Microsoft in the quest to deliver mobile collaboration and communication tools to 2 billion “firstline” workers currently using little or no enterprise...
In a compelling overview of Google Cloud’s strategic direction and technological strengths, new CEO Thomas Kurian revealed that Google Cloud’s already established significant presence in about half of the world’s top 10 companies in retail, in media, in financial services, in manufacturing, and in automobiles. And...
Microsoft’s powerful hold on the #1 spot in the Cloud Wars has been driven by not only its highly differentiated technology but also by a truly transformational go-to-market strategy that’s turning traditional roles, expectations and outcomes upside-down. At a time when—c’mon, say it with me!—"every company is...
For reasons I can’t fully fathom, many folks in and around the tech business continue to believe—mistakenly—that Amazon is the king of the enterprise cloud, when in fact Microsoft’s cloud business is significantly larger than Amazon’s and is growing more rapidly. Those aren’t opinions, they’re not...
To get a sense of how big, fast-growing and disruptive Amazon’s cloud business is, try this: just its revenue growth in 2018—not its total revenue, but rather the $8-billion increase from 2017’s $17.5 billion to last year’s $25.6 billion—would make it the fifth-largest enterprise cloud...
After 47 years of helping companies in every industry around the world run their internal operations with highly structured efficiency, SAP is in the midst of a stunning transformation to becoming the world leader in helping businesses understand what’s going on in the minds of...
While parent company Alphabet continues to decline to offer specific details about the revenue totals or growth rates for its Google Cloud business, Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat this week disclosed that Google Cloud has had some number of $100-million-plus deals and is one of the...