Channel Beat: Apple Goes With Google Cloud, Cuts Spending With AWS

CRN broke a major story this week that Alphabet's Google quietly landed Apple as a customer for the Google Cloud Platform, as confirmed by multiple sources.

Apple reportedly inked the Google deal last year, and has since dramatically cut its use of Amazon Web Services, a direct competitor to Google Cloud Platform.

Sources say Apple is spending between $400 million and $600 million on Google Cloud Platform.

Oracle Q3 earnings beat analysts' expectation this week but came up short against revenue projections.

This marks the seventh consecutive quarter that Oracle has missed analysts' revenue expectations; this quarter it was short by $110 million. Software stayed flat, while cloud grew by 44 percent year-over-year.

HP is putting together a channel offering around the device as a service market, CRN learned this week.

According to HP, more than 40 percent of companies are actively pursing device as a service. Through HP's offering, customers would be able to manage the wide range of devices used by employees.

HP plans to build the program first as a channel program and encouraged partners to reach out now to develop the program.