A viable plan for growing your IT services business should consist of much more than a bigger revenue target.
- By Mike Harvath
- October 30, 2014
Impersonal vendor channels are drowning out partners who voice their concerns. Is the only solution to speak louder?
- By Howard M. Cohen
- October 29, 2014
With the debut of Azure Migration Accelerator, Microsoft has fired another volley against cloud leader Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 16, 2014
Like a few of Microsoft's newer technologies, Delve will either change the way we work for the better -- or be a scrambled mess.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 06, 2014
A few of Microsoft's recent moves have the company lumbering right onto partners' territory.
- By M.S. Partner
- September 25, 2014
Forget planning for just the foreseeable future; a partner's plan for adapting to the rapidly changing IT landscape should span years.
- By Mike Harvath
- September 24, 2014
Starting with its acquisition of InMage this summer, Microsoft has been taking steps to position Azure as a major provider of disaster recovery services in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 18, 2014
Microsoft is making major strides against Amazon and Google under the flag of "cloud first."
- By Scott Bekker
- September 10, 2014
Successful partners find ways to align their practices with Microsoft's goals. Finding out what those goals are doesn't have to be tricky, as long as you know what questions to ask.
- By M.S. Partner
- July 30, 2014
Phil Sorgen talks to RCP about his first Worldwide Partner Conference as head of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group, the evolving direction of the partner channel and Microsoft's role in it.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- July 11, 2014
From Satya Nadella's first WPC as Microsoft CEO to Kevin Turner's annual kick-in-the-pants keynote, here's what we're looking out for during this year's conference.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2014
Non-productive partner companies often hire the best, but fall short at training their talent. Don't make that mistake.
- By Ken Thoreson
- July 09, 2014
For partners that don't come prepared, Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference can be overwhelming and unrewarding. Our former Microsoft field rep gives a few guidelines for how to make the most of your time at WPC.
- By M.S. Partner
- July 02, 2014
With cloud computing at the center of recent high-profile security breaches and the NSA spying revelations, providers like Microsoft have been feeling pressure from customers to lock down their data.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 25, 2014
The next stage of growth in the partner ecosystem is IP development, but firms should be mindful of its hurdles before making the transition.
- By Mike Harvath
- June 13, 2014
Microsoft partners looking to diversify their practices might have a hard time finding viable alternatives. And no, Google isn't one.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- June 11, 2014
The writing might be on the wall for the tablet market, with global shipments now slowing significantly from their jackrabbit start.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 04, 2014
From Azure RemoteApp to ExpressRoute, the new features Microsoft introduced at TechEd give partners new ways to leverage Azure to develop and sell new services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 14, 2014
If your company has a great growth story that covers the past three years, we want to hear about it.
- By Mike Harvath
- May 12, 2014
The Desktop as a Service (DaaS) field is rife with opportunity for partners and tech giants like Amazon Web Services and VMware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 01, 2014