AWS cloud market share is tops, but Google is growing ahead of Amazon and Azure as it doubles down on enterprise selling tactics under new leadership.

IBM, Oracle and Microsoft are among the companies basking in the White House’s glow these days. All were founded before 1980 and are longtime government contractors with strong bipartisan ties in Washington.

Google takes a fundamentally different approach to the on-prem portion of hybrid cloud.

Three years after striking a similar deal with AWS, VMware says it’ll soon run on Azure.

The company doesn’t break out YouTube and cloud revenue, but the two are important sources of future growth. Amazon and Microsoft Corp. are well ahead of Google in the cloud market.

Microsoft unveiled a partnership with VMware . in a bid to bring more customers to its Azure cloud-computing service, emulating a pact that has benefited rival Amazon.com.

The company’s focus on cloud-computing, advertising, and other high-margin businesses continues to pay off.

The results reflect Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella’s efforts to draw some customers away from cloud market leader Amazon.com Inc. and ink more significant clients. Microsoft also is benefiting as more traditional companies that are longtime...

The Pentagon official who developed a controversial $10 billion cloud-computing project is stepping down after four years of efforts to upgrade the Defense Department’s information technology systems.