Cloud Computing
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IBM has bought Red Hat in an attempt to recreate its success in the 90s; it’s not clear, though, that the company or the market is the same.
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AWS seems to have a dominant position in enterprise computing, but Google is trying to change the rules to favor their inherent strengths.
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Larry Ellison has declared that Oracle is a cloud company, but their customer offering seems more suited to the world that was.
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Amazon Earnings, Trainium and Commodity Markets, Additional Amazon Notes
Amazon’s earnings suggest that the shift away from training towards inference and agents means their bet on Trainium is paying off. Plus, additional notes on ads, agents, and sports rights.
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An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about their new partnership, plus my thoughts on OpenAI and Microsoft’s new deal.
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An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about Google’s cloud priorities, enterprise agent platform, and Google’s integration advantage.
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Anthropic’s New TPU Deal, Anthropic’s Computing Crunch, The Anthropic-Google Alliance
Anthropic needs compute, and Google has the most: it’s a natural partnership, particularly for Google.
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Oracle Earnings, Oracle’s Cloud Growth, Oracle’s Software Defense
Oracle crushed earnings in a way that not only speaks to the secular AI wave they are riding but also to Oracle’s strong position
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Copilot Cowork, Anthropic’s Integration, Microsoft’s New Bundle
Microsoft is seeking to commoditize its complements, but Anthropic has a point of integration of their own; it’s good enough that Microsoft is making a new bundle on top of it.
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Xbox Replaces Head of Gaming, Xbox History, Whither Xbox
Xbox has a new head, who isn’t a gamer; I suspect Microsoft is doing what it should have done a decade ago: get out of the console business.