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CEO Satya Nadella has spent the past five years building up Microsoft’s cloud business, which lets customers avoid having to buy and run their own hardware and applications.

The business reality for many industries is that more data is migrating into cloud services and storage options from on-premises hardware. Managers and IT pros alike are looking for the tools to make that migration process seamless.

In a statement issued after Mark Hurd’s death, Oracle's Larry Ellison pointed to his friend’s business acumen. “Oracle has lost a brilliant and beloved leader who personally touched the lives of so many of us during his decade at Oracle,” Ellison...

Hurd was a key driver in Oracle’s turn from an old model of licensing software toward the use of cloud computing, a burgeoning business dominated by rivals Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

Over the last year, Zendesk has taken a series of steps to compete head-to-head against Salesforce.com Inc. On Thursday, during a user conference in San Francisco, the company unveiled two more products meant to maintain sales momentum.

The value ascribed by Deutsche Bank to Google Cloud is nearly twice the market value of IBM.

Druva’s cloud-native offering uses machine learning to automate storage tiering, moving data between tiers depending on how frequently the data is accessed.