Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. This is why the consumption players (Snowflake, Mongo, Confluent, Azure, AWS, etc) so more variability in the macro slowdown. This brings me to AI (everything leads to AI these days…). Follow along to stay up to date!

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

Q4 earnings season for cloud businesses is now behind us. Who are the real AI winners. It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. net retention and CAC payback). Is Software Rebounding?

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Hyperscaler Preview Next week Amazon, Microsoft and Google report earnings and we’ll see Q3 data for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment Follow along to stay up to date!

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 28, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. AWS (Amazon), Azure (Microsoft), and Google Cloud (Google) all reported this week. Azure reported on Tuesday and gave us that glimmer of hope. Azure came in at 31% (constant currency). Follow along to stay up to date!

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

There are 4 questions a startup should ask themselves about building a startup that uses generative AI. The narrative is : AI is a massive platform change that Goldman Sachs projects will increase GDP 300x more than the PC. There are 4 questions startups should ask themselves about building with generative AI. The video is here.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

AI companies] have a real use case for the cloud which is somewhat different than what we see from some other companies. Today, our largest R2 customer is another AI company using us for exactly the purpose of being a neutral place to store their training data.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 5, 2024

They addressed the top concern for CISOs: the impact of generative AI on enterprise security. Here’s what they had to say about the key considerations for technology adoption and strategies CISOs can employ to navigate the rise of AI-driven security solutions: 1. What is the biggest security threat that enterprises face today?

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 25, 2023

At last, we see a change in slope in the annual growth rates of the cloud services. Both Google & Microsoft announced growth rates in GCP & Azure that held steady from one quarter to the next. There are two forces in tension : overall cost reduction efforts by companies & the desire to invest in AI.

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Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. When I think about the monetization of AI (and which “layers” monetize first) I’ve always thought it would follow the below order, with each layer lagging the one that comes before it. 2024 will be the year of AI applications!

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 11, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The weakness they called out was from larger cloud-native businesses. And everyone hoping for AI acceleration will need to wait. Private companies like CoreWeave and Lambda (who offer cloud GPUs) are also seeing a big boost.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 28, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. AI = Data + Compute I’ll continue beating this drum, but we got two great quotes from Azure and AWS this week. ” Then at AWS Summit they called out “Your data is your differentiator when it comes to Generative AI.”

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 9, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Usage on Snowflake is driven by queries run on Snowflake Azure: Neutral Tone With Strength in AI Overall I’d characterize Azure’s quarter as a net positive. They were also more constructive on cloud optimizations bottoming.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

We saw moderated consumption growth in Azure and lower-than-expected growth [elsewhere]. Segment Expected Growth Productivity 12% Office Commercial 6% Office On-Premise -25% LinkedIn 5% Dynamics 13% Intelligent Cloud 18% Azure 26% Server -3% Services -3% 2. At some point, the optimizations will end.

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IT World

JANUARY 25, 2023

Microsoft on Tuesday said it expects the growth across its cloud business to temper down through 2023 as enterprises brace for economic headwinds. The Windows-maker reported 29% growth in total cloud revenue to $21.5 Microsoft said it expects its third quarter cloud gross margin to decrease by one percentage point, driven by Azure.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. We have companies like BuzzFeed and C3 making loose announcements about how they will incorporate generative AI into their business, sending their stocks up 50-100%+. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

" As with many other companies reporting strength in the market, AI & unstructured data workloads are fueling growth. “I don’t even hear the words AI and budget in the same sentence.” Improved terms from the cloud service providers have contributed to margin expansion.”

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IT World

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Microsoft has gone all in on artificial intelligence (AI), pouring $10 billion in the OpenAI startup — and that’s just the opening gambit. AI will reap many billions in revenue for the company, particularly its cloud business. Yesterday it unveiled plans to add AI to Bing in a bid to take market share from Google.

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IT World

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Microsoft has launched Microsoft Syntex, a rebranding of the application as the company transforms it into a set of content apps, low-code tools and services that uses AI to streamline how organizations work with content. To read this article in full, please click here

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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IT World

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Microsoft’s Ignite event traditionally attracts more from the developer ranks, but the technologies on display are increasingly of relevance to CIOs developing cloud strategies today. Stay on budget with these 6 cloud cost management tips , learn the 5 fundamentals of effective cloud management and beware hidden cloud migration gotchas. |

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The ultimate failure of Siri to dominate the AI personal assistant game might come to be seen as its biggest miss of the decade. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses. If the smartphone is foundational to the social changes we’ve seen in the past decade, then the cloud is foundational to how business has changed.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

ai is one of those enterprise software companies ($2m customers on average) you hear about and see their billboards but are never quite sure what they do. An amazing exit at the time, but one that happened as Siebel was clearly losing to the Cloud transition that Salesforce came to own. The founding story is fascinating. Never quit!

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

At SaaStr AI Day , Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, level-set about where we are in the cycle for Enterprises adopting AI and the critical work being done at Shopify to leverage AI and solve real problems. The future of Enterprise is “Ambient AI.”

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IT World

JUNE 6, 2019

Microsoft and Oracle are partnering in the cloud, allowing their customers to run enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. A direct network connection and identity interoperability between the two clouds will also allow customers to seamlessly migrate workloads and data, the companies said.

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2019

What did the 100,000+ subscribers to SaaStr’s Cloud Daily find most interesting in the Cloud this week? 2: LinkedIn is Migrating to Microsoft Azure. 3: Microsoft Invests $1 BIllion in OpenAI to Develop AI Technologies on Azure. The Cloud Wars continue to heat up. Cloud is Huge. and Europe). #6:

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

A unique feature of Zoho Analytics is its AI-powered assistant that can answer all your questions in the form of meaningful reports. Power BI can integrate with Azure Machine Learning—plus, its ML and AI features are driven by Azure functions built into the Azure Cloud.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2024

If it wasn’t clear before, AI is the single biggest revenue driver in cloud. Microsoft’s Azure is winning share directly from Amazon. ” Much of the AI spend is at the enterprise, where a 50% reduction in customer support cost or a 75% increase in engineering capacity filters billions to the bottom line.

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User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

Develop – to break down the roadmap into prioritized tasks for development teams Integrations with development (Azure, Jira, Github), communication (Slack, Teams), CRM (Salesforce, Zendesk), project management (Trello, Asana), knowledge management (Confluence), and workspace tools (Google, Microsoft) Pricing Aha!

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. Over the past couple months, we’ve spoken with dozens of Fortune 500 and top enterprise leaders , 2 and surveyed 70 more, to understand how they’re using, buying, and budgeting for generative AI.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Gartner is estimating that the cloud services industry as a whole will outpace the growth of overall IT services by a factor of three, with SaaS making up $143.7 28% of IT spending will shift to the cloud by 2022. Gartner is also predicting that nearly a third of IT spending will shift to the cloud by that same year.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Meanwhile, the global public cloud software as a service (SaaS) market is hitting an annual run rate of $100B in 2019 and forecast to grow to US $157 billion in 2020, more than doubling the market size from 2014. Cloud services spending is also fueling the data center hardware and software market to grow to $150 billion.

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Audacix

MAY 11, 2023

Cloud platform vulnerability scanning tools Most businesses are shifting to a cloud-based model and using cloud infrastructure for their applications and APIs because of higher flexibility and scalability. This cloud infrastructure also needs to be secured. Other best-practice cloud security controls.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Cloud computing offers three main service models: SaaS for ready-to-use software, PaaS for application development frameworks, and IaaS for scalable virtualized computing resources. Microsoft offers enterprise solutions, productivity suites, and cloud services for both B2B and B2C sectors, emphasizing innovation and efficiency.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 11, 2023

“85% of employers say they directly benefit from AI in the workplace” – MIT Sloan Management Review The difference between conversation and conversational intelligence and how they can improve the customer experience. One of the platform’s most interesting features is its Prediction Builder tool. Read more now.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2022

Drift® , the Conversation Cloud company, helps businesses connect with people at the right time, in the right place with the right conversation. Using the Drift Conversation Cloud, businesses can personalize experiences that lead to more quality pipeline, revenue and lifelong customers.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Before diving into more specifics about what Tabular does, I’d like to start with a brief overview of how cloud-native data architectures have evolved over the last decade. The rise of foundation models and generative AI only furthers this trend. However, the two are intertwined together. Let's dive in.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 9, 2018

A common misconception is that AI will replace human employees. With the rise of AI, we’re seeing personality-driven bots like Cortana, Siri and Alexa. The future of AI is bright. I am the Corporate Vice President at Microsoft in the AI and Research Division, and I focus on all of our conversational AI.

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