Larry Ellison has reassigned former cloud infrastructure chief Don Johnson, as part of a shuffling of Oracle execs to reimagine its cloud capabilities.

A few reasons why I believe that Satya Nadella and the Microsoft executive team are extremely pleased with continued hyper growth from Azure.

A look at how Salesforce measures up against Microsoft, SAP and Oracle when it comes to hitting the $5 billion in a quarter mark.

On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, SAS EVP, COO and CTO Oliver Schabenberger joins me to discuss his company’s powerful partnership with Microsoft.

In contrast with Salesforce, ServiceNow and IBM, Larry Ellison and Oracle have all but banished “platform” from their public presentations.

In this time of rampant disruption, change, and digital-everything, Bill McDermott and ServiceNow are promising to give businesses the gift of speed.

On the recent Amazon earnings numbers, to clarify: anyone who thinks that AWS is “in trouble” or because its growth rate was “only” 29% is nuts.

With a 43% revenue-growth rate that was much higher than those of its larger rivals, Google Cloud continued to be the fastest-growing major cloud vendor.

“For Microsoft, COVID-19 was personal on many levels.” – Microsoft Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Rhew, who’s helping to drive innovation amid crisis

Ashley Goldsmith is leading efforts at Workday to ensure employee safety and happiness during and after COVID-19, while strategizing a return to work.

On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Sean Ammrati talks about what Slack’s lawsuit against Microsoft means for the future of cloud (and much more).

While I applaud the CEO’s unblinking confidence, I have questions about why SAP is spinning out Qualtrics, a company said to be SAP’s crown jewel.

40-year-old Christian Klein gave a confident performance on the SAP Q2 earnings call of which a CEO of any age would be proud.

On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Tony Uphoff and I talk workspace trends, from hiring upticks to open office plans to the new remote work reality.

As Microsoft cloud revenue soared to $51B on the strength of $14.3B in fiscal Q4, Azure led the way as usual with 50% hypergrowth. But there’s more!

From January when his appointment was announced until April 6 when became CEO, Arvind Krishna did 5 things very well in his debut quarter.

Microsoft and the Azure Cloud are playing fundamental roles in the worldwide AI- and data-driven transformation of the automotive industry.

On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Charles Araujo breaks down the meaning of “empathic design” and how it can help business leaders make it through crises.

In his concluding remarks to the Google Cloud Next ’20 keynote presentation, CEO Thomas Kurian struck an empathetic tone, exemplifying his leadership style.

On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Bonnie Tinder explains why she’s a fan of rapid deployment — but only when it’s done under the right circumstances.

Larry Ellison eschewing the “hybrid” term is part of his attempt to show that the Oracle Autonomous Cloud is different from what everyone else is offering.

This article is brought to you by Oracle. SKY Brasil IT director Andre Nazare discusses wins the company has had with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse.

CEO Christian Klein specifically called out SAP’s month-old Industry Cloud suite of applications as a “growth driver” in SAP’s preliminary Q2 report.

On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Christopher Lochhead asks big questions about the future, like how massive offices will function in the remote-work world.

Having driven ServiceNow to its first billion-dollar quarter, CEO Bill McDermott has said he neds to triple its workforce by 2025 to keep up with growth.

The near-impossible-to-impress analyst Lydia Leong, who wields considerable influence among biz customers, last week offered praise for Oracle Cloud.

Stream the Cloud Wars Live podcast to hear Wayne Sadin explain why COVID has flattened some companies, while others will come out of the crisis stronger.