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Microsoft recently touted its hardware partners' efforts around Skype Room Systems (SRS), even as the Skype for Business platform itself is in flux.
10/31/2017
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Microsoft recently added a new troubleshooting capability to Intune, its mobile device and application management service.
10/31/2017
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The ongoing reorganization of the Microsoft channel operation, One Commercial Partner (OCP), includes a new concept called the "swarm," a pool of technical experts at Microsoft available to strategic partners.
10/30/2017
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Channeling the Cloud
A newly refocused Cloud Solution Provider program is giving partners hope for better relationships with Microsoft field reps.
10/30/2017
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Organizations worried about how the planned transition from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams will affect their communications received reassurances from Microsoft this week.
10/27/2017
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Microsoft's new fiscal year got off to a much better start than expected, with the company reporting $24.5 billion in revenues for its first FY18 quarter, more than $1 billion higher than analysts had forecast.
10/26/2017
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Investment firm Vista Equity Partners shook up the managed service provider (MSP) market on Thursday by announcing an agreement to acquire Datto and to combine that data protection specialist company with another of its holdings, MSP tools vendor Autotask Corp.
10/26/2017
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News
A report on Wednesday citing Microsoft officials indicates that Microsoft is no longer manufacturing Kinect cameras.
10/26/2017
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News
Google is partnering with Cisco on a hybrid cloud effort that will enable workloads to run on Cisco's UCS hyperconverged infrastructure hardware and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
10/25/2017
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Microsoft this week outlined its roadmap for bringing Skype for Business capabilities into Microsoft Teams, a decision it first announced at its Ignite event last month.
10/25/2017
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Microsoft this week unveiled new container management services for its Azure cloud, including those aimed at the Kubernetes open source container orchestration solution.
10/24/2017
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A strategic partnership announced Monday between Microsoft and Cray will bring the latter's supercomputing capabilities to the Azure public cloud.
10/23/2017
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In-Depth
Microsoft upended its channel-facing corporate structure this year and unveiled major new engagement models and other programs for working with partners. In this special section, RCP describes and unpacks the myriad changes.
10/23/2017
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Both Sides
The channel and field reorg in Redmond is unleashing a flood of new terms and initialisms. Are OCP, TCM, ECM, PDM, PMA, RVP and STU all getting to be TMI? Use this glossary FTW. HTH.
10/23/2017
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Microsoft has opened the door for enterprises and service providers to run Azure Stack at much greater scale.
10/23/2017
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Cisco made a major move to expand its collaboration footprint within small and medium businesses worldwide on Monday with the announcement of its intent to acquire cloud-calling and contact center solution vendor BroadSoft for $1.9 billion.
10/23/2017
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News
Microsoft this week described a pair of new subscription plans for its Visio Online service, which became available for Office 365 subscribers back in March.
10/20/2017
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As the One Commercial Partner (OCP) leadership team continues to refine Microsoft's partner engagement models, the resources and tools that can best support marketing and sales are also undergoing review.
10/19/2017