04/01/2010
GIVE IT BACK!
As green IT gains momentum, a new category of Microsoft partner companies offer end-of-life management to other solution providers for PCs and servers -- including refurbishment, recycling and data wiping.
By Scott Bekker
Gold Certified Partner TechTurn is making a big business out of selling refurbished PCs and servers. A new program through Tech Data gives other Microsoft partners a way to get in on the opportunity to go green.
By Anne Stuart
Solutions providers and their customers with established credit histories suddenly can't get financing. Is help on the way?
By Jeffrey Schwartz
Partners say that customers are eager to deploy the 2010 release of the Microsoft collaborative computing platform.
By Keith Lubner
To make your business stand out, what you do internally behind the scenes can be even more important than what you do externally.
By Scott Bekker
Microsoft's focus on cloud computing helps out the big guys. So, will SMB customers continue to be heard?
By Paul DeGroot
Now that Microsoft Windows Azure and SQL Azure are commercially available, partners need to consider how the company's new cloud services will change the landscape of how software and services are delivered.
By Ken Thoreson
Strategic sales management is often a weak link in solution provider companies.
By Scott Bekker
While Microsoft partners have known major changes were coming to the company's partner program this year, the specifics have been vague.
By Jeffrey Schwartz
Microsoft revamps mobile strategy with Windows Phone 7.
By Kurt Mackie
In a recent webinar, Kayvaan Ghassemieh, senior technical product manager for Microsoft Online Services, outlined recent milestones, developments and changes to the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).
By Jeffrey Schwartz
Cisco kicks HP out of partner program.
By Jeffrey Schwartz
Off-premises backup company gets e-mail, SharePoint archiving in deal.
By Jeffrey Schwartz
Search giant claims 1,000 authorized resellers in its year-old program.
By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft plans to release many of its 2010-branded products -- including Office 2010 -- to manufacturers this month.
By Scott Bekker
Bundle of server software gives way to customer demand for management, virtualization and cloud solutions.
By Scott Bekker
In an effort to lure on-premises ERP solutions providers to its cloud-based offerings, NetSuite Inc. upped the ante in the industry for channel margins on first-year license subscriptions.