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
One Microsoft partner CEO with a 30-year track record of growth credits a strategic plan, with goals that are understood by everyone in the company, as the foundation for success.
- By Barb Levisay
- June 04, 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
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
The deadline for this year's award for IT services companies that have shown exceptional growth is May 1.
- By Mike Harvath
- April 27, 2015
Perhaps you've heard the buzz about containers and how they're poised to become the next big thing in cloud computing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 20, 2015
There are now almost as many ways to bill for the cloud services that partners deliver to customers as there are cloud services.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 13, 2015
For the first time, Microsoft partners who are members of the IAMCP may purchase the same Microsoft curriculum and online labs that partner training centers use.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- April 08, 2015
As much as business intelligence has gone mainstream, it's still not a simple conversation. One Microsoft partner has found a solution to reduce customer confusion.
- By Barb Levisay
- April 02, 2015
A brief glossary of the two-, three- and four-letter terms that Microsoft loves and partners should know.
- By M.S. Partner
- March 23, 2015
As the channel shifts further and further away from selling products, customers tell us more and more how they don't want to talk with salespeople anymore.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- March 16, 2015
From security to storage to identity management, the recent raft of new Azure services gives Microsoft partners multiple ways to meet today's business requirements.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 12, 2015
As one Microsoft systems integrator has found, having regular face-to-face meetings with customers can really pay off -- sometimes literally.
- By Barb Levisay
- March 05, 2015
What Microsoft's voice-activated technology currently lacks in polish, it definitely makes up for in personality.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 04, 2015
It sometimes makes more sense for a company to sell off just one segment of its business than all of it. The hard part, of course, is letting go.
- By Mike Harvath
- January 08, 2015
Forging and nurturing a relationship with another Microsoft partner takes a lot of hard work. Here are 10 tips to help you turn that relationship into a reliable revenue driver -- for you, your partner and Microsoft.
- By M.S. Partner
- December 18, 2014
The first step for Microsoft partners, Howard argues, is to acknowledge that there is no "Internet of Things."
- By Howard M. Cohen
- December 17, 2014
The public cloud and third-party encryption offerings from Microsoft provide partners a key opportunity to do their customers a real service.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 04, 2014
The first Azure appliance debuted to much fanfare at the 2010 Worldwide Partner Conference, only to fade from the spotlight almost immediately after. Four years later, Microsoft is reviving its earlier plans with the new Cloud Platform System.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 01, 2014
Between the end of stack ranking and the emergence of faster release cycles, partners are contending with a much different Microsoft than the one under Ballmer.
- By M.S. Partner
- November 03, 2014