Microsoft has added cloud assessment capabilities, including the ability to assess if a computing environment is ready to migrate to Office 365, to the free Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.0 (MAP 6.0), which became generally available on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2011
In an exclusive interview with RCP, Jon Roskill, Microsoft's top channel executive, talks about the challenges of his first year -- the cloud transition, the MPN switchover -- and the huge opportunities he sees for partners in year two.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 18, 2011
Cloud.com, a provider of software for building private and public clouds, have been acquired by Citrix System, announced today. Terms of the deal have yet to be disclosed.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 12, 2011
New Dynamics CRM Online capabilities and benefits to the partner community will be coming from Microsoft in the fall.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2011
With the Worldwide Partner Conference just around the corner, here are six topics Microsoft-watchers will be especially on the lookout for.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 08, 2011
Microsoft has updated its SkyDrive product to include improved document-collaboration capabilities in the Word Web App service, the company announced on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 08, 2011
With its much-anticipated suite, Microsoft is providing solid value at many different price points. The Office suite subscription option, especially, should jumpstart a lot of customer conversations.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- July 02, 2011
The company's Hybrid Cloud Platform lets companies keep their data on-premises while leaving the managing to a provider. Everyone benefits.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 01, 2011
Amazon Web Services announced a new pricing plan today for all its cloud services, including its CloudFront content delivery network.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 30, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: In a major change from BPOS, 20 hosters with value-added services will handle their own customer billing for Office 365. VARs and MSPs must still go through Microsoft in the Partner of Record model.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 30, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: (Previously "25 Things Partners Should Know About Office 365.") Microsoft just launched the much-anticipated successor to BPOS. Here's what every partner needs to know.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 29, 2011
Microsoft's Office 365 is now officially available in 40 markets globally, the company announced today at a launch event in New York.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 28, 2011
Enterhost, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Fort Worth, Texas, recently rolled out four new cloud services based around Microsoft's cloud platform.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 24, 2011
This week, Wyoming became the first state to "go Google," according to its state governor's office. Specifically, all 10,000 of the state's employees have moved to Google Apps for Government.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 23, 2011
Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange messaging service once again went down on Wednesday across North America, but the company says service has been restored.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 23, 2011
Microsoft will change the pricing for Windows Azure in July to allow for free inbound data transfers during peak hours as well as off-hours.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2011
Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business Division, spent 15 minutes on Wednesday answering questions about cloud computing, in particular relating to Windows Azure and the forthcoming Office 365.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2011
Microsoft rolled out an upgrade of Windows Live SkyDrive -- its free consumer-oriented cloud storage and file-sharing service -- on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2011
IT spending on public cloud services will grow at an impressive compound annual rate of 27.6 percent over the next four years, according to a recent report by IDC.
- By Chris Paoli
- June 21, 2011
Microsoft has released a beta of its System Center Orchestrator 2012 product, which is designed to support runtime automation when working with datacenters.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 21, 2011