With effort, a little prodding and help from peers, Jamison West took a "one-man band" to a 30-person firm. His company, JWCS, acquired two other Seattle companies in the last year and relaunched July 1 as Arterian.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2011
Microsoft plans to decrease the pricing of its Service Provider License Agreement offerings for Windows Server 2008 R2, starting next year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 19, 2010
Partners might be wondering what their role selling Microsoft solutions will be when the bulk of services are offered direct to customers online.
- By Paul DeGroot
- November 01, 2010
Today's distributors do much more than ship products and track orders -- it's too bad some channel partners don't know it.
- By Rich Freeman
- November 01, 2010
Will the cloud replace tape and local disk as the preferred means of protecting enterprise data? Though this was once unthinkable, cloud storage is starting to gain momentum.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 01, 2010
With a focus on the super-small business market, Aurora offers a cross-premises Active Directory solution that's easy to manage.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- October 01, 2010
Microsoft's determination to dominate the market for online services has never been as evident as it was at the 2010 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). Why is it moving so aggressively into that space?
- By Paul DeGroot
- October 01, 2010
SLAs reportedly affected by three BPOS interruptions in August and September.
The Windows Azure Platform Appliance is coming this fall. While you can't buy one of these limited-production releases, it could portend the future of private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 01, 2010
Some MSPs are intrigued by the new Microsoft cloud-based Windows Intune, but the product's early positioning and the company's commitment to the managed services model are questioned.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2010
Microsoft rolled out a second beta of its Windows Intune service on Monday, but availability is limited.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2010
In the battle to get customers to pay attention to backup and recovery offerings, it's important to know your enemy.
- By Christa Ayer
- June 15, 2010
Deal puts much of Microsoft's IT operations into a global contract with major Indian SI.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 01, 2010
Your clients often need services that go beyond what you offer in the traditional MSP role. So, look around: Is there untapped revenue sitting right under your nose?
- By Christa Ayer
- May 12, 2010
Applications managed services (AMS) has been gaining a lot of traction lately.
- By Mike Harvath
- May 01, 2010