In launching a hybrid platform that can solve one of enterprise IT’s most-difficult challenges, Google Cloud has greatly intensified the competitive heat on Microsoft and Amazon. Anthos will set a new level of expectations among business customers, who will soon demand that all of their cloud vendors offer similar capabilities.
Two months after offering a compelling glimpse into how Google Cloud will become an aggressive and highly capable competitor in the Cloud Wars, CEO Thomas Kurian this week must win the confidence of customers and partners during the company’s highly anticipated Next ’19 event by filling in the details about core positioning, industry solutions, and customer-success stories.
Large businesses are accelerating their cloud commitments so dramatically that they’ve begun “pulling” Microsoft into new areas. The CFO of Microsoft’s commercial business recently told investors that “I don’t know if I would go so far as to say limitless, but there’s a lot of runway.”
IBM made its unconditional and end-to-end commitment to a hybrid-cloud future unmistakably clear during its quarterly earnings call this week as CFO Jim Kavanaugh dropped the H-bomb 28 times. Kavanaugh tied hybrid cloud’s virtues to everything from customer innovation and productivity to every positive element in IBM’s strong fourth-quarter performance. So while I wasn’t at
Fresh on the heels of two massive cloud deals with Vodafone and Juniper valued at about $875 million, IBM today said it has deepened its long-time strategic partnership with global bank BNP Paribas in a deal that one analyst believes could be valued at $2 billion. This additional big new win for IBM Cloud will
As IBM prepares to release fourth-quarter and full-year earnings this afternoon, the company is building significant hybrid-cloud momentum for 2019 with two large and sweeping customer deals totaling $875 million over the next several years. The huge engagements with Vodafone for $550 million and Juniper for $325 million showcase IBM’s broad and deep strengths in