Cloud Computing and XaaS Developments (May–June 2025)
In May 2025, Salesforce announced a definitive agreement to acquire data management firm Informatica for $8 billion. In May 2025, Microsoft announced a partnership with xAI to host Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini on Azure via the Azure AI Foundry service. On May 22, 2025, Red Hat and AMD announced an expanded collaboration to optimize AI workloads in hybrid cloud environments. On May 9, 2025, IBM announced a cloud partnership with Oracle to run IBM’s watsonx AI tools on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). On May 15, 2025, Kyndryl and Microsoft expanded distributed cloud services to enhance hybrid, multicloud, and