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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on January 05, 20260 comments
Cognizant and Microsoft have expanded their long-standing partnership to help enterprises accelerate AI transformation and deliver what the companies describe as frontier firm experiences—organizations that embed AI deeply across operations rather than limiting it to isolated pilots. The collaboration will embed agentic AI and Copilot into mission-critical workflows. Along with this, the partnership expands the Cognizant Neuro AI Suite of offerings and combines Microsoft's trusted cloud and AI with Cognizant's industry platforms. Other improvements in the pipeline include scaling up Azure, Azure AI Foundry, MS 365 Copilot, GitHub and related technologies.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on December 19, 20250 comments
Commvault has announced a partnership with Pinecone aimed at strengthening cyber resilience for vector databases that underpin retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other enterprise AI applications. The integration extends Commvault’s cloud-based resilience platform to protect Pinecone vector workloads, enabling immutable backups, point-in-time recovery, and extended retention without affecting query performance. The companies say the approach is designed for organizations that rely on vectors as a core data type but face strict compliance, governance, and recovery requirements. Key features include accelerated PITR, enhanced data protection, unified cyber resilience and compliance support with audit readiness.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on December 18, 20250 comments
Nearly half of U.S. small and midsize businesses have already been hit by a cyberattack, according to Guardz’s 2025 SMB Cybersecurity Report, which surveyed 800 SMB owners across multiple industries. The report found that 43 percent experienced at least one attack in the past five years, with phishing, ransomware and employee error cited as the most common threats. Despite rising awareness—80 percent of respondents said cyber risk has increased—more than half of SMBs still rely on business owners or untrained staff to manage security, often without professional support.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on December 17, 20250 comments
Enavate has expanded its Xcelerate portfolio, a rapid-implementation offering designed to help SMBs deploy Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central in as little as 12 weeks. The update adds modular add-ons and curated integration options, giving organizations more flexibility to start with core financial capabilities and layer on additional functionality over time. The methodology emphasizes fixed-price, fixed-scope delivery and predictable timelines—an implementation model Enavate has refined through hundreds of Business Central deployments and embeds each module within Business Central seamlessly for optimal growth.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on December 05, 20250 comments
Microsoft Entra has expanded its identity security capabilities through a set of new partner integrations designed to simplify how organizations implement layered defenses. Generally available through the Microsoft Security Store, these integrations allow customers to activate services such as edge-level Web Application Firewall protection, bot and fraud mitigation and account recovery with secure access to resources directly within the Entra portal. Partners include Cloudflare, Akamai, Arkose Labs, HUMAN Security, and identity-verification vendors such as Au10tix, TrueCredential and IDEMIA, bringing previously complex integrations into a streamlined, in-product experience.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on December 02, 20250 comments
Cybersecurity vendor SonicWall has launched its Managed Protection Security Suite (MPSS), a co-managed service offering aimed at managed service providers (MSPs) who want to deliver enterprise-grade firewall security without growing internal headcount. As described by partner CT Solutions, the MPSS bundle enables rapid deployment and risk mitigation by offloading firmware updates, configuration monitoring and firewall health checks to SonicWall. The service includes 24/7 monitoring of connected firewalls and alerts for offline devices or configuration changes.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on November 19, 20250 comments
Microsoft is preparing to bring together its partner ecosystem at Ignite 2025 with an agenda built around four pillars: improving employee experience, reinventing business processes, deepening customer connections and driving industry innovation. Driven by the acceleration of AI and cloud adoption, the event aims to help partners build differentiation, scale go-to-market (GTM) practices and evolve the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. Keynotes, breakout sessions, hands-on labs and networking events are structured to support technical, sales and strategic roles. The partner-centric programming features hundreds of sessions spanning topics such as Copilot and agentic AI, Azure and data modernization, unified security operations and industry-specific growth strategies. To make the most of it, partners are encouraged to register (in-person or digital), plan their personal agenda, secure sessions early and define follow-up actions for their business.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on November 18, 20250 comments
BitTitan spotlights a new partnership with PowerSyncPro along with two new solutions: Directory Sync and Migration Agent. Showcases at Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Nov 17-21, San Francisco), these solutions show the broadening of MigrationWiz towards modernizing Mircosoft 365 and Entra ID for AI adoption. The launch follows the release of MigrationWiz Active Directory allowing users to migrate accounts, groups and objects across Active Directory into Microsoft Entra ID. Ehnancements also include preserving user SID history during migrations, seamless tenant-to-tenant moves, automatic generation of passwords and alignment of users. The PowerSyncPro launch features a user-friendly approach with seamless workstation transitions, preservation of user profiles and application reconfiguration.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on November 18, 20250 comments
AvePoint has introduced AgentPulse, a new command center for monitoring and governing enterprise AI agents as organizations scale production use of agentic AI. Built into the AvePoint Confidence Platform, AgentPulse acts as a centralized registry that shows which agents are active, what data they can access and how frequently they’re interacting with corporate systems. The goal is to give security and IT teams a consolidated view of agent permissions and behavior—areas where traditional identity and data governance tools offer limited coverage.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on November 18, 20250 comments
Cognizant Technology Solutions has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 3Cloud Technologies, a U.S.-based specialist in Microsoft Azure, data and AI services, to enhance its global footprint in enterprise AI and cloud transformation. 3Cloud brings more than 1,000 Azure-certified engineers and a track record of 20 percent annual growth driven by demand for Azure-native business transformation.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on November 13, 20250 comments
A new Microsoft-sponsored IDC study examining more than 4,000 AI decision-makers across 16 countries identifies a category of “Frontier firms” achieving significantly higher returns from generative and agentic AI. Most organizations report 2.8x ROI from generative AI projects and 2.3x ROI from agentic AI, reflecting deeper integration across business workflows rather than isolated pilots.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on November 13, 20250 comments