As SAP reports Q3 cloud-revenue growth of 37% to $2 billion, the Microsoft deal “contributed 18 percentage points to the 39% new cloud bookings growth.”
Partnerships
Larry Ellison announced at OpenWorld that Oracle is expanding its partnership w/ Microsoft and promised to vault past Amazon in key infrastructure category.
Google Cloud expanding its deal with VMware reveals Kurian’s commitment to offering customers choices, even if those customers choose competitors over GCP.
ServiceNow CEO John Donahoe cited a number of factors in its $3B annual revenue total, a focus on mobile solutions and its Microsoft deals stood out to me.
The expectations behind Microsoft investing $1 billion in partner OpenAI are thrilling, especially when you consider the leaders of each company.
The SAP-Microsoft alliance continues to pile up big wins: one of Asia’s largest healthcare groups, Zuellig Pharma, will be on Azure by 2022.
On this first day of the second half of 2019, here are five Cloud Wars predictions about big trends that will define the rest of the year in the industry.
My take on the shocking new partnership between Microsoft and Oracle, and what each powerhouse cloud vendor gets out of the deal.
“Hybrid Everywhere Plus Trusted Partnerships” | My conversation with Arpan Shah, GM for Azure Infrastructure Marketing, about Microsoft’s cloud strategy.
The recently announced SAP and Microsoft Embrace program builds on the partners’ 25-year relationship and dramatically benefits both companies.
Eager to move from underperformer to world-class competitor, Google Cloud and CEO Thomas Kurian have outlined some key themes at the Next ’19 conference.
New, parallel efforts by SAP & Microsoft to drive innovation within digital manufacturing: the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance & the Open Manufacturing Platform.
At Hanover Messe, Microsoft targets manufacturing sector with nine Azure-based startup partners, another example of its revolutionary “co-sell” model.
Read my take on the strategic partnership between Volkswagen and Microsoft that’s transforming the auto maker into a software company focused on mobility.
Key takeaways from Walmart’s Q4 and full-year earnings results illustrate steps in the Walmart digital transformation journey with Microsoft and beyond.
Some compelling numbers about Microsoft’s new “IP co-sell partner program” and more partner strategies that the company is pursuing.
During IBM’s quarterly earnings call this week, CFO Jim Kavanagh mentioned “hybrid” 28 times, focusing on the IBM Future Hybrid Cloud,
The Microsoft-Kroger partnership allows the grocery giant to morph into a technology company that develops and sells modern cloud-based retail solutions.
IBM today said it has signed a cloud deal with BNP Paribas that one analyst believes could be valued at $2 billion, setting up a big 2019 for IBM.
IBM’s new hybrid cloud megadeals show why the vendor has retained the #5 spot in the Cloud Wars Top 10 here at the outset of 2019.