Microsoft's Accelerated Networking technology for Azure virtual machines (VMs) is now production-ready. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 08, 2018
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Almost every technology provider provides some professional and business development guidance for its channel partners in conferences and webinars, but ConnectWise always stood out. 
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 05, 2018
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Newly released data from Synergy Research Group indicates that cloud computing still trails the traditional enterprise hardware market, despite growing faster any other IT category in 2017.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- January 05, 2018
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    This week's disclosure of a far-reaching CPU security vulnerability has prompted a raft of responses from OS vendors, researchers, chip makers and security software providers.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 04, 2018
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware appears to have reached a détente with Microsoft regarding the latter's emerging VMware virtualization on Azure solution.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 04, 2018
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Wednesday announced its acquisition of Avere Systems, a 10-year-old provider of hybrid cloud storage solutions, for an undisclosed amount.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- January 03, 2018
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Organizations worldwide are poised to increase their security spending in 2018 by 8 percent, driven by the raft of high-profile security blunders that made news headlines throughout the past year.
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- January 02, 2018
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Here are the most-read features of 2017, from the ins and outs of the Microsoft OCP reorg to why we think IoT isn't all that great.
                    
			            - By Redmond Channel Partner magazine  staff
- December 29, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    From Microsoft reorg questions to what, exactly, is a CAU, here are the most popular blog posts and columns of 2017.
                    
			            - By Redmond Channel Partner magazine  staff
- December 28, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    From product updates, to the Skype-to-Teams transition, to the latest Windows 10 release, here are the headlines that got the most attention from our readers this year.
                    
			            - By Redmond Channel Partner magazine  staff
- December 27, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Oracle is expected to acquire Aconex, a provider of cloud-based collaboration solutions for the construction industry, for $1.2 billion U.S. or $7.80 per share.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- December 19, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Businesses that migrate their on-premises workloads to the cloud using a "direct match" method are missing out on significant cost savings, according to a recent study by Microsoft Azure migration partner TSO Logic.
                    
			            - By Gladys  Rama
- December 19, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft issued some good news recently to Mac users of its Skype for Business Server 2015 product. However, there's bad news for organizations still using the aging Office Live Meeting unified communications service.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 18, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is slated to release a new "Azure Migrate" solution within the next six months, a company executive said in a recent presentation.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 18, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's new Office 365 Teams collaboration service is inheriting some of the calling capabilities of Skype for Business, Microsoft announced this week.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 14, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's new Unified Support plan will result in potentially substantial price increases for organizations when it takes effect in about six months, according to a recent report by Gartner Inc.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 13, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Recent data from Gartner indicates that worldwide server revenue went up by 16 percent in the third quarter of this year. 
                    
			            - By Becky  Nagel
- December 12, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft added two new virtual machine (VM) families to its lineup of Azure compute options this month: the lower-cost B-Series and the memory-intensive M-Series. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 12, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new "hybrid modern authentication" capability is now generally available for Skype for Business and Exchange, Microsoft announced recently.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 11, 2017
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft highlighted its progress on the Kubernetes-on-Azure front this week at the KubeCon event in Austin, Texas.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 08, 2017