Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

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Enterprise cloud strategy at production speed.

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Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans follows the business side of cloud and AI as major vendors turn agents, copilots, ERP, governance, and data sovereignty into production decisions. The show moves between brisk news minutes and longer conversations with executives and company leaders.

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About Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans follows enterprise technology at the point where vendor strategy becomes a customer decision. The subject is cloud, but the center of gravity is business execution. Recent episodes move through Microsoft Copilot Studio, Oracle agentic applications, Workday and ERP strategy, Google Cloud, AWS, data sovereignty, runtime governance, and the pressure AI places on CEOs. The show pays attention to tools that leave the demo stage and enter production. That matters here. AI agents are discussed not only as flexible systems, but as software that may need workflows, policy checks, human approval, audit trails, and access to sensitive information. The coverage is especially interested in automation that changes business processes. It looks at copilots, agents, ERP implementations, enterprise applications, and the systems integrators expected to make them work. The language is business-first and often urgent. When the show compares hyperscalers, it leans on revenue, growth rates, market position, and the practical question of who is gaining ground. When it turns to Microsoft or Oracle, the conversation often shifts toward infrastructure, talent, sovereignty, agentic apps, and what customers can reasonably do next. Executive interviews give the feed a second gear. Bonnie Tinder appears in a conversation about Oracle and Workday AI strategies, Pankaj Goel discusses the mid-market ERP opportunity, and Steve Miranda speaks about Oracle's AI revolution and agentic apps. Kieran Allen also appears as co-host of CloudWars in an episode on AI governance and auditability. The show can be blunt about leadership failure and vendor noise, but its main function is not provocation. It tries to separate claims, capabilities, and customer implications. Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans suits a listener who wants enterprise AI framed through software markets, implementation realities, and executive accountability. It is a cloud-and-AI briefing for people more interested in what businesses can run than in what technology can merely promise.

Made for: Suits a listener who follows enterprise software, cloud competition, and AI automation through the lens of customer decisions. It is especially useful for someone who wants vendor strategy tied to implementation, governance, and business leadership.

What sets it apart: The show keeps enterprise AI grounded in operational details: workflows, ERP, auditability, data sovereignty, and customer adoption. It pairs quick market analysis with executive conversations rather than treating cloud vendors as abstract technology brands.

In their own words

Cloud Wars analyzes the major cloud vendors from the perspective of business customers. In Cloud Wars Live, Bob Evans talks with both sides about these profoundly transformative technologies, and with monthly All-Star guests from across the business community about the trends impacting how the world lives, works, plays, and dreams. Visit https://cloudwars.com for more.

As heard by us

Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Cloud Wars Live turns enterprise AI announcements into practical questions about deployment, data, automation, security, and customer outcomes.

Bob Evans keeps Cloud Wars Live focused on the distance between an enterprise technology announcement and something a customer can actually deploy.

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Why you'd press play

That last database keeping your data center lit? Bob Evans asks what moving it buys you.

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  • to hear how AI might spare doctors the paperwork behind prior authorizations
  • to compare Workday's data model with Oracle's agents that can carry out business processes
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Oracle vs. Workday AI Strategies: Key Differences Explained | Tinder on CustomersApr 1, 2026

Oracle and Workday are framed as different answers to enterprise AI pressure.

The segment uses Bob Evans's conversation with Bonnie Tinder, founder and CEO of Raven Intelligence, to draw a clean line between two enterprise AI pitches.

Steve Miranda on Oracle’s AI Revolution and Agentic Apps | Cloud Wars LiveMar 27, 2026

Oracle frames agentic apps as a practical step beyond automation, centered on business process flows.

Oracle Executive Vice President Steve Miranda draws a firm line between ordinary automation and agentic apps, and that distinction gives the conversation its shape.

How Oracle Is Transforming Healthcare with AI and Automation | Cloud Wars LiveMar 26, 2026

Oracle's healthcare pitch is strongest where AI meets prior auth, complete data, and the daily grind of care delivery.

Cloud Wars Live turns its attention to Oracle Health and Life Sciences, with Seema Verma describing how AI-powered agents could ease friction in healthcare while doctors keep their focus on patients.

Nathan Thomas on How Multi-Cloud Is Transforming Enterprise AI | Cloud Wars LiveMar 24, 2026

A straightforward vendor case for putting Oracle databases close to enterprise cloud and AI workflows.

This Oracle multi-cloud database discussion makes a plain business case: Nathan Thomas says customers want their databases in the same clouds where they already build most of their apps, whether that is AWS, Azure, or Google, instead of keeping them in a separate data center.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Microsoft Introduces Hybrid AI Automation in Copilot Studio

    Microsoft introduces hybrid AI automation in Copilot Studio, combining agents and workflows for flexible and reliable operations.

    Apr 17, 2026·3m
  2. 2

    AI's New Victims: CEOs Who Are Unable, Unwilling, Unseeing

    The episode discusses how AI transformation is now targeting CEOs who are unable, unwilling, or unseeing, with examples from Walmart, Coca-Cola, and Adobe.

    Apr 16, 2026·6m
  3. 3

    The Missing Layer in Enterprise AI: Governance and Auditability

    Kieran Allen discusses how Panoptix Systems' PanoptiCore provides runtime governance and auditability for AI agents in enterprise environments.

    Apr 15, 2026·3m
  4. 4

    Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Q1 Preview: Who's Hot + Who's Cool?

    A comparison of Q4 growth rates and revenue for Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft, questioning why Google Cloud's incremental revenue rivals larger competitors.

    Apr 14, 2026·5m
  5. 5

    Microsoft’s AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Talent, and Data Sovereignty in Japan

    Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in Japan over three years to build AI infrastructure, improve cyber resilience, and train one million engineers, addressing data sovereignty through local data processing.

    Apr 13, 2026·2m
  6. 6

    Why OpenAI’s Infrastructure Strategy Changes Everything

    Apr 10, 2026·3m
  7. 7

    How ServiceNow Is Scaling Secure AI with Zenity Integration

    Apr 8, 2026·2m
  8. 8

    Inside Microsoft’s Shift From “Copilot Everywhere” to Intentional AI Integration

    Apr 7, 2026·2m
  9. 9

    Marc Benioff Goes All-in On Slackbot to Drive Agentic Enterprise

    Apr 6, 2026·5m
  10. 10

    Microsoft Links ERP Success to AI with Business Central Insights

    Apr 3, 2026·3m
  11. 11

    Oracle’s ‘AI Changes Everything’ Mantra Pushes Agentic AI into the AI Database

    Apr 2, 2026·5m
  12. 12

    Reducing Fraud with AI Agents in Accounts Payable

    Apr 2, 2026·3m
  13. 13

    Oracle vs. Workday AI Strategies: Key Differences Explained | Tinder on Customers

    Hidden gem

    Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans compares Oracle and Workday AI strategies through Bonnie Tinder of Raven Intelligence, who says Workday has shifted its AI branding from Illuminate to Sana.

    Apr 1, 2026·24m·1 clip
  14. 14

    SAP Signals Major Shift Toward AI Usage-Based Pricing Model

    Apr 1, 2026·2m
  15. 15

    SAP + Reltio: Fueling Agentic AI Via Harmonized Data

    Mar 31, 2026·5m
  16. 16

    Can Google Cloud + Old-Line Baker Hughes Juice Up AI Economy?

    Mar 30, 2026·5m
  17. 17

    The Mid-Market ERP Opportunity Explained by Opkey CEO Pankaj Goel | Cloud Wars Live

    Mar 30, 2026·14m
  18. 18

    Steve Miranda on Oracle’s AI Revolution and Agentic Apps | Cloud Wars Live

    Hidden gem

    Oracle Executive Vice President Steve Miranda says the company is launching 23 "agentic applications" on top of Fusion, after embedding AI and building 1,000-plus agents.

    Mar 27, 2026·15m
  19. 19

    Oracle Fuses Agents + Apps with Fusion Agentic Applications

    Mar 27, 2026·5m
  20. 20

    Oracle AI Transforming Healthcare Ecosystem: EVP Seema Verma

    Mar 26, 2026·5m
  21. 21

    How Oracle Is Transforming Healthcare with AI and Automation | Cloud Wars Live

    Hidden gem

    Bob Evans interviews Seema Verma, Oracle Health and Life Sciences EVP and GM, about how Oracle is applying AI to healthcare’s biggest cost and workflow problems.

    Mar 26, 2026·22m·1 clip
  22. 22

    Oracle ↔ Microsoft Multicloud Miracle: After 2.5 Years, How Do Customers Benefit?

    Mar 24, 2026·5m
  23. 23

    Nathan Thomas on How Multi-Cloud Is Transforming Enterprise AI | Cloud Wars Live

    Hidden gem

    Nathan Thomas says Oracle Multi-Cloud Database lets customers keep Oracle Database performance while moving into AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

    Mar 24, 2026·16m·1 clip
  24. 24

    How AI in Healthcare Is Getting Smarter, Safer with Copilot Health

    Mar 24, 2026·3m
  25. 25

    Larry Ellison's Excellent New Adventure

    Mar 23, 2026·5m
  26. 26

    Google Cloud Expands Healthcare Leadership with CVS Health Partnership

    Mar 20, 2026·3m
  27. 27

    AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Summit Highlights -- Orchestration, MCP, and AI Workforce Transformation

    Mar 19, 2026·8m
  28. 28

    OpenAI $140B Revenue: Dream or Hallucination?

    Mar 19, 2026·6m
  29. 29

    Microsoft’s Frontier Transformation Strategy: How Copilot and AI Agents Will Redefine Enterprise Work

    Mar 18, 2026·3m
  30. 30

    AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Microsoft Data Scientists Vaishali Vinay and Raghav Bhatta on AI for Cyber Defense

    Mar 17, 2026·8m
  31. 31

    Hypergrowth Returns!! Palantir 70%, Google Cloud 48%, Oracle 44%

    Mar 17, 2026·5m
  32. 32

    Verifiable Intent and the Race for a Universal Protocol in Commerce

    Mar 16, 2026·3m
  33. 33

    Oracle Pumps Up Apps w/ 1,000+ Agents to Automate Industries

    Mar 16, 2026·6m
  34. 34

    Microsoft Copilot Studio Case Study Shows 61% Faster AI Support With Multi-Agent Architecture

    Mar 13, 2026·2m
  35. 35

    AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Microsoft’s Andrea Pinillos Shares Governance Strategies for AI Agents

    Mar 13, 2026·9m
  36. 36

    How 'Smart Friction' in Grocery Drives Stronger Returns, Enhances Customer Experience

    Mar 13, 2026·3m
  37. 37

    AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Gina Montgomery on Designing Trusted Copilot, Agent Experiences

    Mar 13, 2026·10m
  38. 38

    How Companies Should Actually Deploy AI Today | Tinder on Customers

    Bonnie Tinder discusses the current state of AI deployment, addressing confusion around agentic AI, vibe coding, and the impact on the SaaS industry.

    Mar 12, 2026·24m·1 clip
  39. 39

    Oracle Q3 Boom: RPO +325%, Cloud +44% as Skeptics Shut Pie-Holes

    Mar 12, 2026·6m
  40. 40

    AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Mark Polino on Closing the AI Security Gap

    Mark Polino discusses closing the AI security gap in government, focusing on secure system integration and data access.

    Mar 12, 2026·12m
  41. 41

    ServiceNow’s Autonomous Workforce Signals the Next Phase of Agentic AI

    Mar 11, 2026·3m
  42. 42

    AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Diego Araujo on Deploying AI Agents in Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations

    Diego Araujo discusses deploying AI agents and copilot solutions in Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations to enhance enterprise efficiency.

    Mar 11, 2026·14m
  43. 43

    Hell Freezes Over: SAP, Oracle, Workday Agree on Key Issue!

    Mar 10, 2026·5m
  44. 44

    Can You Trust Your AI Data?

    Mar 10, 2026·3m
  45. 45

    Oracle Q3 Outlook: How High Can Soaring IPO Go?

    Mar 9, 2026·6m
  46. 46

    Microsoft 365 E7: Scaling AI with Security, Governance at the Forefront

    Mar 9, 2026·2m
  47. 47

    AI in Grocery Retail: Why Grocers Are Prioritizing Store Associate Copilots

    Mar 6, 2026·3m
  48. 48

    Why OpenAI Adjusted Its Trillion-Dollar AI Infrastructure Plan

    Mar 6, 2026·2m
  49. 49

    Evolving Enterprise Security with Microsoft Purview

    Mar 5, 2026·3m
  50. 50

    Workday CEO Bhusri Top Priority for '26: Re-accelerate Growth

    Mar 5, 2026·6m