At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference this week, Microsoft is giving partners what they've been requesting for years. In an exclusive interview with RCP, Channel Chief Phil Sorgen details broad channel distribution plans for the Microsoft Surface and the Cloud Solution Provider program.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 13, 2015
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) on Thursday launched a new partner program aimed at courting independent software vendors (ISVs) looking to grow their Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 09, 2015
Microsoft recently detailed its vision for SharePoint Server 2016, which appears to be very cloud-centric.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2015
The "general availability" of Azure AD Connect likely will help speed up the deployment of the kind of mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) scenarios that Microsoft has been describing throughout this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2015
Microsoft will begin offering $120,000 of free Azure cloud services to eligible startups starting on July 1, the company announced recently.
- By David Ramel
- June 23, 2015
Azure Active Directory Connect, Microsoft's wizard-like tool that aims to make it easier for organizations to connect their backend Active Directory (AD) environments with Microsoft's cloud-enabled Azure AD service, will be released commercially this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 18, 2015
Office Online, Microsoft's browser-based suite of applications, now features integration with the Box cloud storage service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 16, 2015
Introduced at Ignite, Azure Stack substantially advances the old Cloud OS Azure Pack by allowing organizations to build cloud infrastructures that truly mirror the experience of the Azure public cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 11, 2015
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Cloud products like Azure and Office 365 are on the rise, but several on-premises stalwarts are holding their ground.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 10, 2015
In an effort to increase its cloud footprint, Microsoft recently announced plans to open two new datacenters in Canada.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 08, 2015
Microsoft is moving faster than ever to embrace containers on Microsoft Azure and to build the technology into the next version of Windows through a major partnership with Docker. Here's a visual guide to what all the fuss is about.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 03, 2015
Microsoft recently issued an update to its StorSimple storage management product that extends support to other cloud storage service providers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 01, 2015
Research firm Gartner Inc. has singled out Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as the two runaway leaders in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) space.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 21, 2015
Microsoft Azure performed slightly better than Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Nasuni's latest cloud storage report.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 18, 2015
The first five months of 2015 have been marked by nonstop product news from Microsoft, culminating in a pair of back-to-back major conferences. In taking stock of all the announcements, RCP finds that some products have fared better than others.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 12, 2015
Microsoft unveiled its new Operations Management Suite (OMS) at the Ignite conference last week, giving organizations a tool to manage resources in clouds of any type, including Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- By David Ramel
- May 11, 2015
NetSuite Inc. this week announced it plan to move its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to Microsoft Azure from Amazon Web Service (AWS) by year's end.
- By David Ramel
- May 08, 2015
Microsoft unveiled the new "Azure Stack" offering at its Ignite conference this week, signaling a change of direction from its old "Cloud OS" vision.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 07, 2015
Microsoft on Wednesday made a financial case for shifting its business to the cloud.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2015
It's not enough for partners to drive sales of Microsoft's cloud; now, they're being asked to drive cloud workloads.
- By M.S. Partner
- April 30, 2015