Tag: Cloud Marketshare
Synergy Research: Alibaba surpasses IBM in worldwide cloud market
In Synergy Research’s latest report, while AWS, Microsoft, and Google continue as the “Big Three” in most regions in the world, there was one surprise. Alibaba is now the fourth largest cloud provider in the world surpassing IBM, which was...
Enterprise cloud spending continues to rise
You don’t need to be a financial genius to see the direction of the cloud market. It’s been big and it’s probably only going to get bigger as more companies shut down their data centers and move wholesale to the...
Google Cloud’s quest to surpass ad revenue may take awhile
A couple of years ago at the Structure Conference, Urs Hölzle, SVP of engineering at Google, made a rather bold prediction. He said that by 2020, Google cloud revenue would surpass the company’s ad money, which remains by far the...
Cloud vendors engage in latest feature battle
It’s gotten to the point where if one cloud vendor makes a move, there’s a pretty good chance the competitors will answer with a similar service offering — and we’ve seen this playing out in a big way this month....
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...
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...
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...
