Microsoft and Amazon both suffered brief cloud outages on Sunday when lightning struck cloud datacenters run by both companies in Dublin, Ireland.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 09, 2011
Now that it's available, partners are prepared to start offering Microsoft's biggest bet in the cloud to date.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 04, 2011
Microsoft created a new partner category when it launched Office 365 to fix the billing problems that vexed partners with BPOS. But there's a catch.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 04, 2011
For Microsoft global alliance partner Dimension Data, the OpSource acquisition both takes the company to the cloud, and gives it a more multivendor presence up there.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 31, 2011
With Microsoft rolling out more of its key business applications in the cloud, the channel must prepare. But in interviews at Microsoft Convergence, partners and customers are finding the cloud is just one more reason to re-emphasize good old-fashioned services.
- By Barb Levisay
- July 25, 2011
Bob Muglia, the former president of Microsoft's Server & Tools Business, has joined Juniper Networks as the vice president of that company's Software Solutions Division.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 25, 2011
Microsoft and Capgemini are extending their collaboration efforts on Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform, according to a joint announcement this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 22, 2011
The Microsoft "license mobility with Software Assurance" (SA) program can also apply to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon announced last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 20, 2011
The former head of Microsoft's Server and Cloud Division (SCD), Amitabh Srivastava, has joined EMC Corp. as the president of that company's Advanced Storage Division.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 20, 2011
Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) suffered outages on Tuesday may have hampered e-mail services for North American users for about three hours.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2011
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
The beta of System Center Operations Manager 2012, Microsoft's application and infrastructure performance monitoring tool that supports private and public clouds, became available for download on Tuesday.
- 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
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
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
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