AvePoint announced updates to its Confidence Platform aimed at strengthening support for agent-based artificial intelligence and multicloud data resilience. The enhancements are designed to help organizations manage and secure data as AI agents interact with enterprise systems. The platform focuses on providing visibility, governance and protection across environments where data is distributed across multiple cloud providers. Key updates include multicloud cyber resiliency and infrastructure protection, active governance and security for AI agents and scalable multi-tenant IT operations with governance for partners.
Within the AvePoint Confidence Platform, MSPs can manage and monitor users, applications, data, devices, tenants, and cloud infrastructure from a single system, standardizing delivery, reducing risk, and supporting efficient growth. The updated platform also offers Azure Security Management and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), delivering consistent security enforcements across Microsoft Azure environments.
The updates also expand capabilities for managing data lifecycle and ensuring recoverability, particularly as AI-driven workflows increase the volume and complexity of data interactions. The goal is to help organizations maintain control over data while enabling AI adoption. Enterprises are increasingly deploying AI agents that operate across cloud environments, raising concerns about data security and resilience.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on April 28, 20260 comments
10ZiG announced expanded collaboration with Nerdio alongside updates to its 10ZiG Ready Technology Partner Program, aiming to simplify the deployment and management of digital workspace environments. The company's deeper partnership with Nerdio focuses on supporting Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365 deployments, with the goal of reducing the total cost of ownership and streamlining management. The integration is designed to help organizations optimize cloud desktop infrastructure while improving performance and scalability. Customers can benefit from cloud cost optimization, endpoint lifecycle extensions, simplified management and improved economics for AVD and Windows 365.
In parallel, 10ZiG expanded its partner program to strengthen interoperability across endpoint, virtualization and cloud workspace technologies. The program brings together vendors to ensure compatibility and simplify the deployment of integrated solutions. The company said, " 10ZiG Ready brings together technology vendors whose solutions are validated to work with the 10ZiG endpoint platform."
10ZiG provides endpoint hardware and software, including thin clients commonly used in virtual desktop environments. The combined updates reflect a broader effort to support hybrid work models with cohesive infrastructure and partner ecosystems. Organizations continue to invest in digital workspace technologies to support distributed workforces. The updates reflect 10ZiG's focus to extend partner-based solutions to strengthen ecosystem integration strategies.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on April 28, 20260 comments
Accenture is expanding its use of Microsoft 365 Copilot across a workforce of roughly 743,000 employees, aiming to integrate generative AI into everyday business processes. The deployment focuses on using Copilot to support tasks such as document creation, data analysis and internal communications. The goal is to improve productivity by embedding AI assistance directly into tools employees use daily, including Microsoft 365 applications.
Rolling out the integration in phases since 2023, Accenture has been actively tracking the success of Copilot use within the company, reporting 97 percent of staff completing tasks faster, with 89 percent monthly active Copilot usage based on a group of about 200,000 employees. Copilot's ability to reason over data stored in SharePoint and OneDrive, and its deep integration in Microsoft 365 platforms that Accenture employees already use every day, further prompted the expanded rollout.
Accenture has been working with Microsoft to test and scale enterprise AI adoption, using the rollout as part of its broader strategy to incorporate generative AI into consulting, delivery and internal operations. The company said early use cases include automating routine tasks and improving knowledge sharing across teams. Large-scale AI deployments are becoming a priority for enterprises moving beyond pilot programs. Accenture’s Copilot rollout continues to evolve as new features arrive and teams find new ways to work with the tool.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on April 27, 20260 comments
Microsoft and Tieto have announced a strategic partnership aimed at delivering artificial intelligence solutions to enterprise customers across multiple industries. The collaboration will focus on integrating Microsoft’s AI technologies with co-selling AI solutions to customers and offering AI adoption for Tieto's internal operations. The goal is to help organizations deploy AI applications, modernize operations and improve decision-making through data-driven insights. The partnership aims to upskill 5000 consultants with the latest Microsoft AI technologies, accelerating Tieto's Tech Consulting business roadmap.
Tieto provides digital engineering and consulting services, and the partnership is intended to support customers in areas such as application development, automation and analytics. The companies said the effort will target sector-specific use cases across industries, including financial services, healthcare and the public sector. Enterprises continue to invest in AI as part of broader digital transformation strategies. The partnership combines deep customer relationships and global capabilities of Tieto with leading AI technologies from Microsoft enabling customers to derive value from AI in a systemic, secure and reliable manner.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on April 23, 20260 comments
Accenture and Avanade are collaborating with Microsoft to develop an agentic factory concept designed to help manufacturers reduce downtime using artificial intelligence. The approach integrates AI agents into manufacturing environments to monitor systems, analyze data and automate responses to operational issues, moving beyond traditional manufacturing analytics, dashboards and oversight tools.
The goal is to improve equipment reliability and optimize production processes by enabling systems to act on real-time insights. The agentic factory aims to be an intelligence system built on the Accenture and Avanade Factory Agents and Analytics offering using Microsoft Azure, Fabric, Foundry and Copilot for unified data foundations and reasoning with contextual, role-specific guidance through conversational interfaces.
The initiative builds on Microsoft’s cloud, data and AI platforms, combined with Accenture and Avanade’s industry and engineering expertise. Manufacturers are increasingly investing in AI to improve efficiency and resilience in production environments. The new agentic factory reflects Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft’s broader goal to reinvent factory operations, where autonomous agents and human teams collaborate to help improve safety, increase productivity, strengthen decision-making and enable more consistent performance across sites.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on April 21, 20260 comments
Aptean has introduced an artificial intelligence platform, AppCentral, and AI agents designed for organizations using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central in on-premises environments. The offering enables businesses to integrate AI-driven automation and analytics into existing ERP workflows without requiring a full move to the cloud. The platform is intended to support tasks such as process automation, data analysis and decision support across finance, operations and supply chain functions. The release also introduces 10 AI agents, accessible to Aptean's AI hub with the newly launched AppCentral.
The AI agents can interact with enterprise data and systems to streamline routine processes and improve operational efficiency. The goal is to extend AI capabilities to organizations that continue to operate on-premises infrastructure. Many enterprises still run critical workloads on-premises due to regulatory, cost or operational requirements. Partners can preview AppCentral at Directions North America.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on April 21, 20260 comments
ConnectWise has launched Modern Threat Protection, a managed threat protection service designed using AI-powered cybersecurity to provide managed service providers (MSPs) with defined security outcomes and service guarantees. The offering combines threat detection, response and remediation capabilities into a single service, with delivery guarantees intended to ensure consistent performance. The platform is designed to help MSPs protect client environments while reducing the complexity of managing multiple security tools. Offering a holistic cybersecurity approach, the offering centralizes three critical threat layers including the ConnectWise Managed EDR, ConnectWise SIEM and ConnectWise Email Security.
ConnectWise focuses on software and services for MSPs, and the new offering aims to address growing demand for standardized, outcome-based cybersecurity services. With its agentic AI capabilities, the service offers AI-driven insights, combined with expertise from the security operations centers, offering MSPs a hybrid model that is aimed at tighter security measures. The approach is intended to help providers scale security operations while maintaining predictable service levels. MSPs are increasingly expected to deliver enterprise-grade security to small and midsize organizations.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on April 09, 20260 comments
Nutanix announced it is extending its agentic AI offerings to help neocloud providers deliver AI-driven services, with a focus on automating operations and enabling new revenue opportunities. The approach will enable neoclouds to deliver a broader catalog of AI services including GPU-as-a-service, Kubernetes-as-a-service and an enterprise-ready AI platform service powered by Nutanix Agentic AI. Enhancements to the Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is aimed at helping service providers monetize AI infrastructure as a service.
At its .NEXT Conference 2026, Nutanix outlined new capabilities to its Cloud Platform designed for the agentic AI era. The updates reflect continued efforts to unify infrastructure and application services within a single platform. The enhancements support more deployments across hybrid multi-cloud environments and aims to offer a unified cloud management solution for modern distributed enterprise cloud environments.
In addition, Nutanix announced a certified integration with MongoDB through its database platform, aimed at simplifying the deployment and lifecycle management of database workloads. The integration of the Nutanix Database Service (NDB) platform and MongoDB Ops Manager combines infrastructure automation with database management reducing manual effort and improving efficiency. Key capabilities include automated sharded cluster provisioning, data protection workflows, reduced point-in-time recovery and comprehensive operational visibility. The integrated capabilities allow organizations to modernize legacy workloads and unleash the power of AI at scale.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on April 07, 20260 comments
Nutanix and NetApp announced updates aimed at helping service providers expand cloud offerings and support enterprise workloads across hybrid environments. The partnership aims to integrate NetApp Intelligent Data Infrastructure with the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP). The aim is to offer customers modernized virtualization, hypervisor layers, faster migration, simplified operations, built-in cyber resilience and VM-Granular operations. The collaboration accelerates AI innovation aimed at business transformation.
Nutanix also introduced new capabilities and programs designed to help service providers grow managed cloud services, including tools for workload migration and platform expansion. The enhancements aimed for the Nutanix Elevate Service Provider Program partners allow service providers to run multiple tenants with automated workflows on shared Nutanix infrastructure. The "Powered by Nutanix: Verified Solutions" program was also announced, delivering offerings aligned with best practice standards for private cloud services. The company also aims to accelerate service provider transitions from VMware with onboarding incentives.
Finally, Nutanix also launched NKP Metal, a bare-metal Kubernetes offering that enables providers to run containerized workloads directly on physical infrastructure, targeting performance-sensitive use cases. With NKP Metal, organizations can deploy and manage containerized workloads on physical servers while maintaining operational simplicity, automation and enterprise services for the NCP solution. The launch aims to simplify lifecycle management and supports a dual-native architecture. NKP Metal is set for general availability in the second half of 2026.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on April 07, 20260 comments
Eastwall has achieved the Microsoft AI Apps on Azure specialization, a designation that validates its ability to deliver artificial intelligence solutions on Microsoft’s cloud platform. The certification reflects its experience in developing, deploying and managing AI applications using Azure services. The specialization is awarded to partners that meet Microsoft’s requirements for technical expertise, customer success and implementation capabilities. Having demonstrated deep expertise across Azure AI, data, cloud-native application builds and real-world success in deploying AI solutions that are compliant, secure and scalable positions Eastwall as a top-tier systems integrator (SI).
Eastwall focuses on engineering services that help organizations build AI-driven applications and integrate them into enterprise environments. The recognition is intended to support its efforts to expand work with clients adopting AI technologies on Azure.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on April 06, 20260 comments
FNTS has expanded its cloud services portfolio with a new Nutanix Cloud Platform offering built on Nutanix technology, targeting organizations seeking more control over infrastructure. The solution provides a managed private cloud environment that combines Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure with FNTS-managed services. The platform is designed to support enterprise workloads that require greater control, security and customization than public cloud environments. The platform supports virtual machines, containerized applications and hybrid cloud environments and supports workloads across Azure, IBM, Google Cloud and AWS.
FNTS, a managed IT services provider, said the offering is intended to help organizations modernize infrastructure while maintaining flexibility across hybrid environments. The service includes support for workload migration, infrastructure management and ongoing operations. Enterprises continue to adopt hybrid and private cloud models to meet regulatory, performance and cost requirements. As enterprise organizations reassess virtualization strategies, the new FNTS-Nutanix offering provides a clear, managed path for organizations seeking infrastructure stability and predictability.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on April 06, 20260 comments
Microsoft has introduced a service agent capability in Microsoft 365 Copilot aimed at automating service-related tasks and improving support operations. The feature enables organizations to deploy AI agents that can handle service requests, resolve issues and assist users across business applications. The purpose-built agent brings customer service context, insights and actions directly to Copilot combining the familiarity of Microsoft 365 Copilot with Dynamics 365 Customer Service data.
Service Agent offers users a unified Copilot experience with faster resolution through richer context and offers action, not just answers. The initial release includes case understanding, summarization, case prioritization, service knowledge retrieval, data updates, workflow initiation and share history with cross-app continuity.
Service Agent integrates with existing Microsoft 365 tools and can be customized to support specific organizational needs. The goal is to streamline service delivery and provide faster responses to common requests. Enterprises are increasingly adopting AI agents to support IT service management and business operations. The Agent is now available in public preview with upcoming enhancements and updates planned.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on April 01, 20260 comments