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Cloud Wars analyzes the major cloud vendors from the perspective of business customers. In Cloud Wars Live, Bob Evans talks with both sides about these profoundly transformative technologies, and with monthly All-Star guests from across the business community about the trends impacting how the world lives, works, plays, and dreams. Visit https://cloudwars.com for more.

  • Microsoft Foundry Adds Mistral Large 3 to Azure AI Arsenal
    Mistral Large 3, now on Azure, offers full openness via Apache 2.0 licensing and excels in enterprise tasks.
  • PwC and Oracle Team Up to Turn Cloud Savings Into AI Budget
    Leaders unpack why later-generation cloud platforms, bare-metal architectures, and multi-cloud strategies can cut costs by up to 70% and fuel enterprise AI adoption.
  • Google Cloud's Will Grannis on Culture, Metrics, and Winning the AI Economy
    Google Cloud’s CTO explains how Gemini-powered, agentic AI is transforming business workflows, culture, and customer experiences across industries.
  • Google Cloud CTO Will Grannis Reveals the 'Big Unlock' for AI
    Google Cloud CTO Will Grannis urges enterprises to reverse-engineer AI strategies around customer needs, not technology, for deeper transformation.
  • AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Paragon Films' Kenny Mullican Shares Event Expectations, Adapting To a New 'AI Reality'
    In this episode of the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast, Giuseppe Ianni welcomes Kenny Mullican, CIO, Paragon Films, to discuss his role as a Programming Committee Board member, and how the event's focus will shift given the maturity of agentic AI over the last year. Mullican also shares core session themes for 2025.
  • The Race to the Quantum Internet: IBM and Cisco Reveal Ambitious Network Blueprint
    IBM and Cisco are collaborating to build long-distance quantum networks — early steps toward a future quantum internet that will both unlock massive computational power and safeguard us from quantum-enabled cybersecurity threats.
  • Palantir vs. ServiceNow: AI Platform Position + Who Is 'Defining Soft.Co?'
    ServiceNow and Palantir are locked in a high-stakes battle to dominate the AI platform market and define the future of enterprise software.
  • AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: enVista’s Nathan Bensch Talks Dataverse, Governance, and Agent Design
    In this episode of the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast, host Giuseppe Ianni sits down with Nathan Bensch, VP of Microsoft Enterprise Services Technology at enVista and a two-year programming committee board member for the AI Agent & Copilot Summit. Bensch offers an inside look at what attendees can expect at the 2026 event and explains what themes and sessions will define its program.
  • Marc Benioff and Salesforce Get Growth Mojo Back
    During the recent earnings call, CEO Marc Benioff emphasized a growth mindset for Salesforce and shared details and commentary from Q3.
  • Palantir Disruption: New Customer Raises AI Spending by 8X!!
    Business leaders are taking charge of AI strategies, shifting enterprise focus from IT-led to CEO-led end-to-end transformations.
  • Microsoft Copilot Exits WhatsApp: What Users Need to Know
    Microsoft Copilot users on WhatsApp must transition to Microsoft-owned platforms by Jan 15 due to WhatsApp policy updates.
  • AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Anywhere Real Estate's Mary McAnally on Diverse Perspectives, Accelerating the AI Learning Curve
    In this episode of the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast, Giuseppe Ianni, VP, Community Director, Attendees and Activations, Dynamic Communities, hosts Mary McAnally, Director Business Transformation, Anywhere Real Estate, to discuss the upcoming AI Agent & Copilot Summit, including her involvement, attendee expectations, and how the event accelerates the learning curve.
  • Inside Google Cloud’s Human-Centered AI Revolution | Cloud Wars Live
    A Google Cloud leader explains how a new customer experience organization speeds AI projects from idea to production while keeping business outcomes and humans at the center.
  • Salesforce Completes Informatica Acquisition, Boosting Its Agentic AI Foundation
    Salesforce’s completed acquisition of Informatica strengthens its agentic AI strategy by adding deep data governance, catalog, and quality capabilities to deliver cleaner, more connected, and more reliable AI outcomes.
  • Workday Q3 Trifecta: 15% Rev. Growth, 17% Total RPO Growth, Strong AI Uptake
    CEO Carl Eschenbach says Workday is becoming the "new front door to work" by addressing fragmented systems with AI.
  • How SAP Is Reimagining Enterprise AI
    A look at how AI agents, developer tools, and next-generation data capabilities are reshaping business transformation.
  • AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: VisualSP's Asif Rehmani Details Copilot Training Resources to Boost ROI
    In this episode of the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast, John Siefert, CEO, Dynamic Communities & Cloud Wars, is joined by Asif Rehmani, Founder and CEO, VisualSP, Microsoft MVP, who details copilotrainingpackage.com, a training resource to assist users with specific Copilot training and broader adoption.
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  • Microsoft, Anthropic, and NVIDIA Forge AI Super-Alliance Poised to Shape the Next Era of Innovation
    Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic are forming a major multi-front partnership combining massive compute deals, financial investment, and joint model optimization to accelerate the AI Era.
  • AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: John Accardi on Technology Evolutions, Getting Started with AI
    In this episode of the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast, John Siefert, CEO, Dynamic Communities & Cloud Wars, hosts John Accardi, Managing Director, Forvis Mazars US, for a conversation on his role in the Microsoft ecosystem, the impact of AI and technology evolutions, and how organizations can get started with pilot projects.