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Cloud Computing News 24 August 2025 - 6 October 2025

Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

Oracle’s $300B AI Cloud Gamble – Can ORCL Stock Become the Next $1 Trillion Tech Titan?

Recent Stock Performance and Valuation Metrics Oracle’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, dramatically outpacing the broader market thanks to AI cloud enthusiasm. Shares started the year around the $170s and climbed into the high $200s by early October, after an especially explosive move in September. The catalyst was Oracle’s Fiscal Q1 2026 earnings release on Sept. 9, 2025, which revealed an “astonishing” influx of cloud business. Oracle’s remaining performance obligations (RPO) – a backlog of contracted future revenue – ballooned to $455 billion, up 359% from a year prior ts2.tech. This implied Oracle had secured hundreds of billions
6 October 2025
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AI Capex Boom at the Crossroads: Are the Hyperscalers Running into Trouble?

AI Capex Boom at the Crossroads: Are the Hyperscalers Running into Trouble?

Report The Seventh Inning of the AI Capex Boom The gen‑AI capex boom has been one of the most powerful drivers of the post‑pandemic bull market. Hyperscale cloud providers—Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and newer players such as CoreWeave—have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into data centres, GPUs and networking equipment to support explosive demand for generative‑AI workloads. This spending has turned AI into what one blogger called “the thing that is eating the economy,” with some analyses showing AI investment adding more to U.S. GDP than consumer spending awealthofcommonsense.com. Yet Morgan Stanley believes this party is maturing. In a note
2 October 2025
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Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Update & Insight Report – 2 Oct 2025

Microsoft’s Big AI Gamble: Nadella Hands Over Commercial Reins to Focus on Datacenters and AI — What It Means for Customers, Partners and Competitors

A Seismic Shift in Leadership Satya Nadella’s memo announcing the promotion of Judson Althoff to CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business reads like a mission statement for the AI era. Nadella describes the generational platform shift to artificial intelligence as “tectonic” and argues that Microsoft must combine sales, marketing, operations and engineering to meet customer needs and build the new AI frontier blogs.microsoft.com. The reorganisation brings marketing chief Takeshi Numoto and chief operating officer Carolina Dybeck Happe (with a dotted line to Nadella) under Althoff’s oversight. Nadella emphasised that consolidating operations within the commercial organisation will “tighten the feedback loop” between customer needs and product delivery
2 October 2025
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You Won’t Believe What Google Did This Month: July 2025’s Biggest Stories

Alphabet’s 2025 Surge: How Google’s AI, Ads & Cloud Are Powering a 30% Rally

2025 Stock Performance & Financial Highlights Alphabet’s stock skyrocketed in 2025. By mid-September, Alphabet became the best-performing “Magnificent 7” tech stock, up ~32% YTD reuters.com vs. S&P500’s ~12% gain. The rally lifted its market cap briefly above $3 trillion (joining Apple and Microsoft) reuters.com. Regulatory news helped: a U.S. judge in early Sept 2025 ruled against breaking up Google’s core businesses, which “removes a significant legal overhang” reuters.com. More recently, EU regulators are again targeting Google under the EU Digital Markets Act; reports indicate Google may face a fine (up to 10% of sales) for favoring its own vertical search engines
1 October 2025
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Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

Oracle’s $300 Billion AI Cloud Bombshell Sends ORCL Stock Soaring – What’s Next?

Oracle Stock Overview and Outlook as of September 25, 2025 Stock Performance (As of Sept 25, 2025) Oracle’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, massively outperforming the broader market. Shares started the year around $167 morningstar.com and climbed relentlessly on optimism around the company’s cloud and AI initiatives. By early September, ORCL nearly doubled in price – a year-to-date gain of over 85% reuters.com – making it one of the top performers in the S&P 500 and even outgaining high-flying peers like Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia. On September 10, the stock hit an all-time closing high of $328.33
25 September 2025
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Alibaba Stock Skyrockets on AI Breakthrough – Key Facts & Latest 2025 Update

Alibaba’s $53 Billion AI Blitz: Stock Soars on Nvidia Pact and Global Cloud Push

Alibaba Stock Soars on Massive AI Spending Plan Alibaba’s latest pivot to artificial intelligence has ignited its stock and signaled to the market that the Chinese tech giant is “all in” on AI. At its annual Apsara Conference (Sep 2025), CEO Eddie Wu underscored that AI industry growth “far exceeded our expectations”, with demand for AI infrastructure outpacing what Alibaba had anticipated reuters.com. In response, Wu announced Alibaba will boost its investment in AI beyond the hefty ¥380 billion (about $53 billion) three-year budget it set earlier this year reuters.com. While he didn’t put a new number on the commitment, the message was
25 September 2025
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Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

Oracle’s Massive $20B Meta Cloud Deal Shakes Up the AI Cloud Wars

Background: Oracle’s Cloud Business Transformation Oracle Corporation built its empire on database software, but it came late to the cloud computing market. Through the 2010s, Oracle struggled for relevance as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud grabbed a combined 65%+ share of the cloud market reuters.com. Oracle was often dismissed as a “legacy” player, with co-founder Larry Ellison famously deriding cloud computing as “gibberish” in its early days qz.com. Over the past few years, however, Oracle has executed a striking cloud reinvention focused on high-performance infrastructure and strategic partnerships. Instead of trying to beat the incumbents at their
20 September 2025
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How Machine Learning Works and Why It’s Changing Everything in 2025

The Containerized Data Center Boom: How “Data Centers in a Box” Are Revolutionizing IT (Market to Hit $43B by 2030)

What Are Containerized Data Centers? Containerized data centers – often dubbed “data centers in a box” – are modular data center solutions built inside standardized shipping containers or similar portable structures. In practice, this means all the typical infrastructure of a data center (server racks, networking gear, power distribution units, cooling systems, fire suppression, security systems, etc.) is pre-installed inside a metal container at the factory statetechmagazine.com. The entire unit is delivered as a turnkey product to the customer’s site, where it only needs power, network, and cooling hookups to go live. This concept dates back to the mid-2000s. Notably,
18 September 2025
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Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

From Legacy to AI Leviathan: Inside Oracle’s Unlikely Run

Oracle’s Q1 FY2025: Cloud Growth Sets the Stage for an AI Leap Oracle’s transformation from enterprise software stalwart to cloud contender began to show tangible results in fiscal Q1 2025. In that quarter (ended August 2024), Oracle reported $13.3 billion in revenue, up 7% year-on-year, fueled by strong cloud uptake stocktitan.net. Cloud services revenue grew 21% to $5.6 billion stocktitan.net, with Oracle’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (OCI) business up 45% and its Fusion and NetSuite cloud applications each growing ~16–20% stocktitan.net. Perhaps most telling, Oracle’s remaining performance obligations – essentially its contracted backlog – reached $99 billion, up 53% from the prior year stocktitan.net. This was
14 September 2025
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AI Stock Frenzy: Oracle’s Cloud Coup, Record Highs, and Bold $300B Deals Fuel Market Rally

AI Stock Frenzy: Oracle’s Cloud Coup, Record Highs, and Bold $300B Deals Fuel Market Rally

Key Facts Market Overview – Record Highs on AI Euphoria Wall Street’s major indexes roared to new heights in mid-week trading as AI-driven optimism swept the market. On September 10, the S&P 500 climbed 0.3% to a record 6,532.04, and the Nasdaq Composite edged to its third straight record high close reuters.com. Investors were energized by a potent mix of cooling inflation data and blockbuster news from the tech sector – especially Oracle’s stunning rally on AI cloud prospects reuters.com. “The fundamentals remain very strong in the equity markets… but valuations are extended at this point and serve as some
11 September 2025
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AI Storm: $10B Cloud Deals, Biotech Breakthroughs & Backlash (Aug 25–26, 2025 AI News Roundup)

AI Storm: $10B Cloud Deals, Biotech Breakthroughs & Backlash (Aug 25–26, 2025 AI News Roundup)

Meta inked a six-year cloud deal worth over $10 billion with Google to power its AI push, as Meta raised its 2025 capital expenditure forecast to $66–72 billion and moved to offload $2 billion in data-center assets. Nvidia unveiled a GeForce NOW upgrade to run the Blackwell RTX 5080-class GPUs, enabling 5K at 120 fps and up to 360 fps at 1080p with DLSS 4, announced at Gamescom. OpenAI announced its first international office in New Delhi later in 2025 and launched the cheapest-ever ChatGPT plan in India at about $4.60 per month. The U.S. General Services Administration sealed a
26 August 2025
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AI Stock Shake-Up: Tech Selloff, $10B Cloud Deal & Intel’s $9B Lifeline (Aug 23–24, 2025)

AI Stock Shake-Up: Tech Selloff, $10B Cloud Deal & Intel’s $9B Lifeline (Aug 23–24, 2025)

Nvidia’s stock has climbed 30%+ in 2025, a 1,400% rally since late 2022, and became the first-ever $4 trillion company last month. Nvidia’s Q2 results are due on Aug. 27, with expectations of 48% EPS growth on about $46 billion in revenue. Palantir Technologies fell nearly 10% this week after being dubbed the AI darling of 2025. Analog Devices rose 4% this week after reporting a 25% revenue surge and raising its outlook thanks to booming AI-chip demand in factory automation and autos. Meta Platforms agreed to spend more than $10 billion on Google Cloud services over six years to
24 August 2025
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