Cloud Wars

Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute — your daily cloud news and commentary show. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the “reimagination machine” that is the cloud. In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I analyze Salesforce’s latest results and why Dreamforce could be critical for proving its AI opportunity is here now.

Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute — your daily cloud news and commentary show. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the “reimagination machine” that is the cloud. In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I explain why Workday believes AI security is becoming an ecosystem problem that no single vendor can solve independently. 00:06 — Workday has become the latest organization to join the Open Secure AI Alliance.

Welcome to the Cloud Wars AI Minute — your AI news and commentary show. Each episode provides insights and perspectives on the AI revolution, exploring the technologies, companies, and leaders transforming business and reshaping the future. In today’s Cloud Wars AI Minute, I explore why falling token prices aren’t necessarily making AI transactions cheaper. 00:01 — So, one of the things that I want to talk about today is going to be the token economy.

The world’s hottest hyperscalers have deepened their relationship with Google Cloud and Oracle each giving the other more of the best it has to offer and thereby creating enormous new business value and potential for mutual customers.

Anthropic is delivering connectors so users of Google productivity apps – Gmail, Calendar, and Drive – can use those apps seamlessly within their Claude AI conversations. Google Workspace Connectors linking Claude to the three aforementioned apps are available for users of Claude and Claude Desktop.

Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute — your daily cloud news and commentary show. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the “reimagination machine” that is the cloud. In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I examine why the emerging Google Cloud and Oracle alliance could reshape how enterprises accelerate their AI transformations.

In the tech world, we’re used to buzzwords. Each new technology comes with a buzzword attached. The crypto world had tokenomics, the cybersecurity world is rapidly shifting left, and in the AI world, it’s all about tokenmaxxing. If you’re new to the term, it means using as much token capacity as possible to get the most information, reasoning, or performance out of an AI model. But, like many trends, tokenmaxxing has had major economic consequences, and companies are beginning to realize it.

Two updates this week on big retail companies’ use of AI give solid insight into where the technology is delivering near-term results while raising issues that must be addressed by rank-and-file employees striving to capture full value from AI. The grocery firm Albertsons is reporting larger order sizes when customers take advantage of AI chatbots to plan and purchase food for meals and events.

Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute — your daily cloud news and commentary show. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the “reimagination machine” that is the cloud. In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I explore how Microsoft could scale Maia 300 production beyond one million chips as it expands its custom silicon strategy. 00:03 — According to recent reports, Microsoft is set to reveal its Maia 300 AI accelerator as early as September this year.

Having agentic processes control cybersecurity is fast becoming a new model for AI-era security. This strategy moves beyond the reactive threat detection of the past, focusing instead on prevention, continuous governance, and autonomous remediation. One of the leaders in the field is ServiceNow with its Autonomous Security strategy. Now, the company is bolstering this vision with six new security offerings built around AI agents.