Microsoft has long favored its licensing partners -- until now. The upcoming retirement of a dozen MPN competencies, including Volume Licensing, marks a turning point in how Microsoft does business through the channel.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 06, 2016
Companies with Enterprise Agreements (EAs) can now use prebuilt images to move their existing SQL Server licenses to Azure Virtual Machines (VMs).
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 01, 2016
Longtime technology partners Microsoft and Citrix this week unveiled their most extensive collaboration in 25 years.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 27, 2016
In one of their most extensive collaboration efforts, Microsoft and SAP this week announced a broad partnership to integrate Azure and Office 365 with the SAP HANA data platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 18, 2016
Organizations moving from the "classic" Azure management portal to the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) portal can now take advantage of newly released resource materials from Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 16, 2016
Despite rivals Microsoft and Google enjoying growth rates well over 100 percent, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) maintains a solid lead in the cloud infrastructure market with 31 percent worldwide market share.
- By David Ramel
- May 06, 2016
In a move to beef up its emerging Internet of Things (IoT) platform, Microsoft on Tuesday announced the acquisition of 5-year-old Italian startup Solair.
- By Gladys Rama
- May 03, 2016
During Microsoft's third-quarter earnings call last week, CEO Satya Nadella touted Office 365 as a new cornerstone of Microsoft's embrace-and-extend philosophy that once made Windows the standard for business computing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 25, 2016
Microsoft's transition to the cloud hit some speed bumps the third quarter of its fiscal 2016.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 21, 2016
Microsoft's Azure Container Service became commercially available on Tuesday, alongside the launch of a new open source project from partner Mesosphere.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 19, 2016
Microsoft plans to roll out several enhancements to its OneDrive for Business product over the next couple of months.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2016
You may have noticed Microsoft (and other cloud providers) usurping traditional partner services like migration. Get used to it.
- By M.S. Partner
- April 11, 2016
Microsoft's Cloud App Security service became generally available on Wednesday, enabling customers to track the use of Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) applications within their organization.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2016
The shift to cloud services presents huge challenges to managed services providers (MSPs). Industry experts say the successful MSP of the near future looks very different from the successful MSP of the recent past.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 06, 2016
Microsoft fired another volley against cloud rival Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) at its Build conference last week, announcing the preview release of its new Azure Functions service.
- By David Ramel
- April 04, 2016
Microsoft announced several developments related to its Azure cloud computing resources during Build this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2016
Since arriving at Dropbox from Microsoft just eight months ago, Thomas Hansen has put in motion a channel program that's on pace to bring on thousands of new resellers and solution integration partners.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 30, 2016
Google this week unveiled its Google Cloud Machine Learning offering, pitting it against machine learning (ML) services from cloud rivals Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- By David Ramel
- March 24, 2016
More than being just a new offering, the CSP program requires Microsoft partners to design the business model that will take them into the future.
- By Barb Levisay
- March 23, 2016
Microsoft's latest tool for checking Azure Active Directory (AD) synchronization issues is now generally available, the company announced Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 23, 2016