Cloud 5: Walmart to build GPU data center, Latest OpenStack release
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Microsoft, not Salesforce owns SaaS marketshare lead says Synergy Research
When Synergy Research announced their Q2 SaaS marketshare results today, there was a bit of a surprise. Instead of Salesforce, leading the field, it was Microsoft. The shift actually happened a year ago, according to Synergy. Salesforce was of course born...
Cloud 5: GCP’s low-cost cloud, Microsoft’s super-fast AI
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Salesforce surpasses $10 billion run rate
Salesforce had another impressive earnings report yesterday, blowing past analyst expectations and putting them firmly on the road to surpass $10 billion in annual revenue. That’s a huge number and not one to be dismissed easily. In fact, Salesforce claims...
Cloud 5: AWS chooses Kubernetes, Brazilian SaaS vendors
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In latest volley in cloud wars, IBM sues to stop former exec from joining AWS
The cloud battles are beginning to get a little nastier, if that was even possible. First there were price wars where each company tried outdo the other with even cheaper offerings. This week it reached the personal level when IBM sued...
Cloud 5: Microsoft goes to Hollywood, BMW bets on the cloud
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Microsoft still has a long way to go to catch AWS
Microsoft is considered a cloud success story, as well it should, given its numbers in the most recent quarterly earnings report, but dollars don’t tell the whole story in the cloud market. It’s a big market, and revenue depends on...
Cloud 5: AWS reports revenue and managing multi-clouds
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Google’s murky cloud numbers
Google announced its earnings report this week, and buried in a section called ‘Other Revenue’ was their cloud earnings — thrown together with a bunch of other ill-defined stuff that wasn’t ad revenue. The good news is that the number...
