Data security and management vendor Cohesity this week introduced the Aspire Partner Program, aimed at simplifying partner engagement across business models, boosting profitability and accelerating technical capability development.
The new program supports a broad range of partner types -- including resellers, integrators, OEMs, distributors and cloud marketplace providers -- and offers three tiered levels: Associate, Preferred and Premier. Benefits include competitive margins, performance-based incentives, joint go-to-market opportunities and centralized access to resources via a streamlined portal.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on August 08, 20250 comments
A new partnership announced this week between Microsoft ISV Rubrik and managed security solutions provider Sophos will integrate a new Microsoft 365 backup and recovery solution, optimized for managed detection and response (MDR), into Sophos Central.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on August 08, 20250 comments
ERP solution provider Univerus has acquired Tangicloud Technologies, a Microsoft ISV specialising in cloud‑native ERP fund accounting for nonprofits and government agencies.
Headquartered in Littleton, Colo., Tangicloud counts over 330 organizations as its customers, with more than 1,500 users globally. Its expertise, built on Dynamics 365 Business Central, offers deep capability in grant management, compliance reporting and fund accounting.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on August 01, 20250 comments
Novata and Microsoft recently unveiled a collaboration designed to broaden access to sustainability reporting tools for SMBs worldwide.
Under the terms of the partnership, Microsoft will become a primary sales partner, offering Novata's Carbon Navigator and environmental, social and governance (ESG) data platform through its SMB channels. Microsoft suppliers will also gain access to Novata's tools to meet climate reporting obligations efficiently and affordably. Additionally, the two companies will co‑develop AI‑driven tools using Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft Fabric to streamline data collection, carbon accounting and regulatory reporting.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on August 01, 20250 comments
Microsoft Corp. closed its fiscal year 2025 on June 30 with fourth-quarter revenue of $76.44 billion, up 18 percent year-over-year, and net income of $27.23 billion ($3.65 per share), beating analyst expectations.
Azure and Intelligent Cloud revenue grew 39 percent year-over-year, surpassing $75 billion and underpinning growth across Microsoft’s AI-driven platform offerings (and also marking the first time Microsoft has publicly broken out Azure revenue).
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on July 30, 20250 comments
Palo Alto Networks, a major security provider that has deeply integrated its security products with Microsoft Azure, has agreed to acquire CyberArk in a definitive cash-and-stock transaction valued at roughly $25 billion.
The boards of both companies have unanimously approved the agreement, which is expected to close in the second half of Palo Alto's fiscal 2026, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on July 30, 20250 comments
Microsoft has published its 2025 release wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform and role‑based Copilot offerings, covering hundreds of AI‑centric updates rolling out between October 2025 and March 2026.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on July 29, 20250 comments
Henson Group and myCloudDoor have officially merged, launching a combined Microsoft solutions provider now named Aliando.
The new firm touts itself as a leading Azure Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) and among the top 1 percent of Microsoft partners globally. In a prepared statement, Chris Danelz, Microsoft's GM of global channel partner solutions, alled the union "a huge win for Microsoft and customers everywhere."
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on July 22, 20250 comments
Kyndryl, in collaboration with Microsoft, launched the Kyndryl Microsoft Acceleration Hub earlier this month, a joint initiative to help enterprises adopt agentic AI systems by leveraging Azure AI Foundry and Copilot.
The hub integrates Kyndryl Consult's domain expertise and Kyndryl Vital's co‑creation framework, delivering tailored AI solutions through physical and virtual innovation centers, including a new AI Innovation Lab in Liverpool.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on July 22, 20250 comments
Accenture and Microsoft recently announced an expanded partnership around AI‑powered cybersecurity solutions designed to help customers combat increasingly sophisticated attacks.
Their collaboration targets four key areas: modernizing security operation centers (SOCs) via Microsoft Sentinel, Defender and Accenture's Adaptive MxDR; automating data protection and AI security across Microsoft 365 with Purview; streamlining cloud migrations and tool consolidation; and improving identity and access management using Microsoft Entra.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on July 16, 20250 comments
Microsoft integration partner Luware on Tuesday announced the opening of its North American headquarters in New York City, marking its first major office in the United States.
Founded in Zurich in 2010, Luware has grown to over 150 employees and serves more than 1,000 organizations globally with its Microsoft Teams‑native contact center and compliance solutions. The new NYC office positions Luware to better support clients and partners in the U.S. market.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on July 15, 20250 comments
Replit has entered a strategic, non-exclusive partnership with Microsoft, integrating its "vibe coding" platform deep into Azure Container Apps, Azure Virtual Machines and Neon Serverless Postgres, with sales available directly through the Azure Marketplace.
Vibe coding, a term coined earlier this year by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, is a byproduct of the AI-assisted, low-code/no-code development movement. The idea is to enable a developer to tell an AI, for instance GitHub Copilot, to build an application to their specification using just natural language -- no coding required.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on July 14, 20250 comments