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Judge Tosses Oracle's Challenge To JEDI Cloud, Delivering Win To AWS

by Joseph Tsidulko

The military's gate criteria around ‘high availability’ was valid, and there was no ‘organizational conflict of interest’ that impacted the integrity of the RFP process, Judge Eric Bruggink rules in clearing the potentially $10 billion award to go to AWS or Microsoft

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant For Industrial IoT: The Top 16 Vendors In 2019

by Dylan Martin

Gartner details the strengths and weaknesses of 16 market-leading industrial IoT platform vendors in its latest Magic Quadrant For Industrial IoT report.

Microsoft, Salesforce Help SaaS Spending Reach $100B Run Rate

by Joseph Tsidulko

Software-as-a-Service will achieve a $100 billion run rate this year, and the market still has a lot of upside as it displaces on-premises software, according to a recent analysis by Synergy Research.

Pentagon CIO: JEDI Cloud Decision Will Come In August, Despite Oracle's Legal Challenge

by Joseph Tsidulko

Dana Deasy told reporters that the source selection process and Oracle's lawsuit are ‘two disconnected events,’ and the military can't wait much longer to implement a massive cloud transformation initiative.

Larry Ellison: Oracle Is Finally Seeing Positive ‘Signals’ Around Its Autonomous Database Service

by Joseph Tsidulko

Q4 earnings delivered cloud software sales exceeding guidance and Wall Street predictions, more than making up for the decline in Oracle's legacy product lines. ‘We have these other businesses that are just melting away and we don’t care,’ Ellison says.

AWS Asks Judge To Toss Oracle's JEDI Cloud Challenge

by Joseph Tsidulko

Oracle wants a federal court "to declare that Oracle's admittedly deficient solution is ‘good enough’" for the military, AWS argues in its latest legal motion.

Andy Jassy: No On AWS Spinoff; Yes On Facial Recognition Regs

by Donna Goodison

‘I can’t speak to what the government is thinking or will do, but at the end of the day, we operate in the United States, and we will follow the United States laws,’ Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy said regarding a potential federal antitrust probe requiring a spinoff of AWS. ‘If we were forced to do it, I guess we would have to do it. We don’t spend a lot of time talking about it.’

Rivals Microsoft And Oracle Partner To Connect Clouds

by Donna Goodison

‘With this partnership, our joint customers can migrate their entire set of existing applications to the cloud without having to re-architect anything, preserving the large investments they have already made,’ says Don Johnson, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Does VMware Want A Piece Of The $10B JEDI Cloud Pie?

by Joseph Tsidulko

Responding to a question about the Pentagon's looming cloud transformation contract in an earnings call, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger suggested his company's efforts to earn FedRAMP certification and its position as a partner of finalists AWS and Microsoft could yield business from the highly controversial military initiative

JEDI Cloud Faces New Challenge As Congress Threatens Withholding Migration Funds

by Joseph Tsidulko

The House subcommittee responsible for advancing military spending bills submitted a report that says it will require the Pentagon's CIO to explain how the military plans to avoid vendor lock-in as it pursues its winner-take-all cloud transformation initiative

Global Cloud Infrastructure Sales Surpass $21B In Q1 2019: 5 Things To Know

by Joseph Tsidulko

Synergy Research reports the global cloud infrastructure market has eclipsed $21 billion in the first quarter of 2019 and despite ‘the law of large numbers’ continues to grow at an impressive clip.

Oracle Alleges AWS Recruited DoD Officials To Influence JEDI Cloud Award

by Joseph Tsidulko

Oracle asks a federal judge to either declare AWS ineligible for the looming $10 billion contract, or else order the military's investigation to continue while blocking a final decision

Oracle To U.S. Lawmakers: Put Us Back In Running For JEDI Cloud Bid

by Joseph Tsidulko

In a letter to leaders of the House Appropriations Committee, Oracle's top lobbyist makes a case for why Oracle, as well as IBM, deserve to remain under consideration for the winner-take-all $10 billion cloud transformation contract.

Mark Hurd's 10 Most Provocative Statements At Oracle Media Day

by Joseph Tsidulko

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd spoke with reporters about his company's plans for leveraging its SaaS business to seize B2B market share in an imminent wave of massive business software consolidation.

The Coolest Big Data System And Platform Vendors Of The 2019 Big Data 100

by Rick Whiting

Part 2 of CRN's 2019 Big Data 100 looks at the companies you need to know that provide big data systems and platforms.