Microsoft announced that it has bulked up some its software-as-a-service offerings and lowered prices.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 03, 2009
Cisco, EMC and VMware on Tuesday kicked off a new Virtual Computing Environment "coalition" to promote datacenter virtualization and private cloud deployments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 03, 2009
Services Ready is a good idea, but it won't work in the long run unless Microsoft gets over it's paralyzing paranoia.
- By Paul DeGroot
- November 01, 2009
The essential questions partners have about the managed services market have some surprising answers. The upshot? It may still be a good time to become an MSP.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2009
For Pelagic Solutions Inc., launching a business atop Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online leads to 78 deals in a year.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 01, 2009
Just weeks before Microsoft is expected to launch SQL Azure, Amazon on Tuesday said it will let customers host relational data in its EC2 cloud service using MySQL.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 27, 2009
The president of Microsoft's Business Division got the hot seat at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo event last week.
- By Herb Torrens
- October 26, 2009
Customer Interaction Cloud combines Salesforce.com's Service Cloud 2 and Cisco's UC stack.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 23, 2009
An independent security researcher and a prominent figure in open source exploit data collection now has a new commercial home.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- October 21, 2009
Microsoft sent a letter to T-Mobile Sidekick users claiming that most of the customer data thought to be lost during a network failure is now being restored.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 15, 2009
Microsoft has devised a way to introduce new PC buyers to its Office productivity suite through a "Starter" edition.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 14, 2009
Microsoft launched "Windows phone" branding on Tuesday, marking the global rollout of Windows Mobile 6.5-based phones by Microsoft's hardware partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 06, 2009
Cisco this week partnered with SaaS pioneer Salesforce.com to promote a combined CRM and contact center offering with a cloud twist.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 06, 2009
A Microsoft-sponsored IDC study predicted relatively healthy employment prospects for skilled IT labor over the next four years.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 05, 2009
Chicago-based PointBridge sprinted out of the gate with the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite -- to the tune of $640,000 in revenues in one year. Co-founder Todd Golden tells RCP how PointBridge did it.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 01, 2009
Wayne Beekman is maneuvering his business to catch the cloud. Should you be doing that too?
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2009
Despite uncertain prospects, a few partners are already investing in some of Microsoft's SaaS- and cloud-based initiatives.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 01, 2009
Eight identity management products from seven vendors have earned interoperability certification for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML 2.0) in this summer's round of interoperability testing.
- By William Jackson
- September 30, 2009
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer gave a keynote talk at a Microsoft event called "The New Efficiency" on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 29, 2009
Google's acquisition of open source security technology firm reCaptcha could help the search giant's Internet security, except against persistent hackers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- September 18, 2009