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The conventional narrative that “old” enterprise vendors would be swept aside by cloud-native startups is breaking apart — and in plain sight the likes of Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP are not merely surviving the cloud and AI era, they’re shaping it. Cloud Wars’ latest Minute argued exactly that...

IBM’s Enterprise Advantage packages IBM Consulting’s internal deliveryivery platform and playbooks into an asset‑based consulting service designed to help large organizations build, govern and operate internal AI platforms at scale, while explicitly supporting multi‑cloud environments and both...

IBM’s new Enterprise Advantage consulting service, announced on January 19, 2026, promises to give enterprises an “asset-based” playbook for building, governing, and operating internal AI platforms at scale — a platform-first approach that claims to be cloud- and model-agnostic while leaning on...

IBM’s new Enterprise Advantage service is a clear bid to turn the consulting playbook that IBM used internally into a packaged, multi‑cloud offering for enterprise customers trying to move from pilots to scaled AI — a platform‑first, agent‑centric approach that promises speed, governance and...

The freelance cloud market in 2026 is no longer an academic debate about features — it’s a cashflow calculation: which platform and specialism will deliver the best return on your time and risk? Background / Overview The basic split is familiar but sharpened: AWS continues to lead in sheer...

Oracle’s multicloud database play accelerated sharply in 2025, with Oracle Database@Azure moving from a niche co‑location experiment into a broad, production-ready platform that now hosts Exadata on Exascale, a VM-based Base Database Service, an AI-native Autonomous AI Lakehouse, and native...

Alaska Air Group is embarking on a sweeping technology overhaul after a string of high-impact outages exposed brittle on-premises infrastructure, overconcentrated cloud dependencies, and the real-world operational costs of modern IT failures — and the company’s public statements, an external...

Google’s planned acquisition of cloud‑security specialist Wiz has set off a fresh round of European regulatory and industry pushback, with cloud trade body CISPE warning Brussels that the takeover could create a “multiplier effect” that locks customers into bundled cloud suites and gives Google...

On a bright November morning, thousands of businesses and millions of internet users found themselves staring at the same message: a Cloudflare‑branded error or the blunt browser prompt, “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed,” as essential services — from ChatGPT and X to...

Oracle’s multicloud play tightened its grip on Europe and Latin America this month as Oracle Database@Azure expanded into the Netherlands’ West Europe region and added capacity in Brazil, bringing new service options—most notably Exadata on Exascale and enhanced key-management integrations—to...

NVIDIA’s retreat from a customer-facing DGX Cloud business marks one of the more consequential strategic pivots in the AI infrastructure market this year, driven by a mix of high launch pricing, operational complexity across multiple hyperscalers, and the political reality of selling services...

Commvault’s new partnership with Pinecone signals a pivotal shift in how enterprises treat vector data: once an experimental artifact of research labs, embeddings and vector indexes are now being folded into mainstream cyber-resilience strategies with enterprise-grade controls. The integration...

Oracle’s sudden prominence in the AI-era cloud conversation—fueled by bold product claims, multicloud deals, and a headline-grabbing backlog—has prompted a provocative prediction: that Oracle will overtake Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud to become the top cloud for AI by...

Microsoft is defending itself against a sweeping £2.1 billion class claim in the UK that accuses the company of deliberately making it more expensive and operationally awkward for thousands of British businesses to run Windows Server on rival cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)...

Amazon and Google quietly rewrote a key piece of cloud plumbing at re:Invent: a jointly engineered, open‑API multicloud interconnect that promises private, high‑speed links between AWS and Google Cloud provisioned in minutes — and it arrived with AI as the accelerant. The move is more than...

Amazon and Google have quietly moved from competing over cloud customers to cooperating on the plumbing that connects them: the two companies announced a jointly developed multicloud networking service that lets organizations spin up private, high‑speed links between Amazon Web Services (AWS)...

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 arrived as a surprise-fast, high-capability update on November 24, 2025 — a release that is already being baked directly into developer tools and enterprise workflows, including GitHub Copilot and Microsoft’s Copilot surfaces, and which Anthropic says pushes...

Trend Micro will unveil the Trend Vision One™ AI Security Package in December at AWS re:Invent — a bundled, end-to-end suite that promises proactive exposure management, model-aware analytics, and runtime guardrails designed to protect the full AI application stack from development through...

Amazon Web Services is still the cloud market leader, but the landscape that made AWS dominant is shifting fast — Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are accelerating, specialised "neoclouds" are carving out lucrative AI niches, and worldwide infrastructure spend is ballooning at a pace that is...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have forged a coordinated, high‑stakes realignment of AI infrastructure that — beyond headline competition — directly reshapes how supply chains will access compute, embed frontier models into planning systems, and manage the operational risks of mission‑critical...