Welcome to Cloud Wars, where we chronicle why the enterprise cloud is the greatest growth market the world has ever known. Our goal is to help you make great decisions for your cloud and digital strategy by understanding more completely the aspirations and capabilities of the world’s leading cloud providers. On this page you will find links & access to all of our Cloud Wars programming, including podcasts, newsletters, the Cloud Wars Minute daily news and commentary show, Top 10 reports, features and profiles and links to Industry Cloud specific events, newsletters, reports and more. We also host Cloud Wars Expo, an annual gathering of growth-accelerator CXOs, the world's leading cloud providers, and innovative startups. I’m Oracle CEO Mark Hurd said this week that 95 percent of cyberattacks are on databases that administrators have failed to patch for more than 9 months
Satya Nadella’s cloud business, Microsoft, is growing at a stunning 58%–and the enterprise cloud hasn’t even begun to reach the fat part of the market.
Oracle is using “adaptive intelligence” capabilities for its entire NetSuite family of integrated applications aimed at small and mid-sized businesses.
Amazon actually lost ground in its efforts to overtake Microsoft as the world’s leading enterprise-cloud provider as Satya Nadella’s company reported.
I wonder if Amazon cloud chief Andy Jassy knows—& takes any comfort from—the history of Bum Phillips? It’s Amazon’s last chance to catch #1 Microsoft in Q1?
SAP is taking direct aim at Salesforce.com, CEO McDermott promises to deliver “next-generation business modeling for the perfect customer experience.”
Three largest enterprise-cloud providers—Microsoft, Amazon and IBM—all closing in on $20 billion in trailing-12-month revenue. What cloud powerhouse wins?
Salesforce.com announced its intention several days ago to acquire API vendor Mulesoft for $6.5 billion, and Marc Benioff’s decision was smart.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison said Oracle will beat Amazon in the cloud by releasing a sweeping set of “self-driving”, cloud solutions.
Oracle leading move toward Autonomous IT with self-driving version of its flagship database product & autonomous cloud services across its PaaS offerings.
IBM has undergone radical transformation the last few years, CEO Ginni Rometty claimed last week that IBM has become the world leader in enterprise AI.
Salesforce.com: CEOs are making digital transformation their top priority, & the recent U.S. tax cuts are giving them the resources to be aggressive.
Some of Microsoft’s largest customers are moving their production SAP workloads as well as other mission-critical applications to the Azure Cloud.
Top executives at Microsoft, SAP and Oracle recently pledged to make customer success, not satisfaction or loyalty, their biggest priority in 2018.
SAP is predicting its cloud revenue will overtake its license revenue this year due to having “the most complete cloud in the enterprise,” CEO McDermott.
ServiceNow has pushed its way into a tiny group of cloud-software vendors that customers feel are truly strategic partners, says ServiceNow’s CEO Donahoe.
Microsoft’s Executive VP and CFO Amy Hood offers remarkable insights into why everything in Redmond seems to be humming along beautifully these days.
The Big 3 Cloud Wars leaders —Microsoft ($18.6B), Amazon ($17.5 billion) and IBM ($17.0B)—combined for 2017 earnings cloud revenue of $53.1B.
The person most responsible for Microsoft’s extraordinary turnaround and near-miracle reversal is Satya Nadella, my Cloud Wars CEO of the year for 2017.
