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
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
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
According to a study commissioned by Seattle-based Azaleos Corp., one of Microsoft's top Gold Certified Partners, midsized and large businesses remain reluctant to adopt unified communications (UC) services over a public cloud.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 15, 2011
Users of the aging Windows Mobile 6 operating system will soon be transitioned to Microsoft's Windows Live SkyDrive storage service, Microsoft announced last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 13, 2011
Putting the latest version of the Microsoft CRM tool through its paces, we found many worthwhile improvements among the 500 or so new features that give Microsoft partners an even more solid competitor to Salesforce.com and Oracle.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- June 10, 2011
Fujitsu will offer commercial cloud services using Microsoft's Windows Azure platform beginning in August, according to a joint announcement from the companies on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 07, 2011
Does Microsoft's planned acquisition of Skype pose a threat to Cisco's leadership in the unified communications (UC) space? Analysts say it depends.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 07, 2011
Microsoft partner executive announces release date for the successor to BPOS, which adds Office integration.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 03, 2011
Besides dredging up concerns about data security in the cloud, the Amazon outage made it clear that when it comes to corporate damage control, silence isn't the best policy.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 01, 2011
Partners and sales teams are entering uncharted territory in cloud computing. Here are six tips for building a successful cloud practice.
- By Ken Thoreson
- June 01, 2011
A first look at the public beta of the much-anticipated successor to the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 01, 2011