According the latest CDW-G Unified Communications Tracking Poll, unified communications adoption has doubled in the United States over the past year, with many organizations moving their UC implementations to the cloud.
- By David Nagel
- April 06, 2011
Worldwide marketing service firm Epsilon revealed on Friday that its clients' customer data, which the company used in e-mail campaigns, have been breached.
- By Chris Paoli
- April 05, 2011
Microsoft's professional services subscribers can now download the 64-bit Windows Home Server 2011 (WHS 2011). The company has also released the general-evaluation version of Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (SBS 2011 Essentials).
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 05, 2011
Building a strategic and effective sales management system is just like building anything else: It takes time, refinement and follow-through.
- By Ken Thoreson
- April 05, 2011
With Windows Intune's availability, Redmond's cloud lineup for partners spans the back office, CRM, systems management and Infrastructure as a Service.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 05, 2011
The Microsoft reseller that can implement a process and system to develop opportunities on its own will always win in the marketplace.
- By Keith Lubner
- April 05, 2011
"The big migration" from Windows XP and Office 2003 is coming, according to research firm Gartner, and IT pros should be prepared.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2011
Microsoft released on Monday iSCSI Software Target 3.3, a Windows Server 2008 R2 addition that allows for shared block storage in storage area networks using the iSCSI protocol.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2011
Once again, RCP slogged through the App Store to spotlight the most interesting iPad apps. Last time, we brought you 23. This time, we more than doubled that number, bringing the total to 47. Some are free, others are expensive, but all have potential for integration into Microsoft partner-provided solutions.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 02, 2011
Unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg push back the potential release Redmond's mass-market-focused tablet offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2011
Microsoft has tabled a plan that would allow small Dynamics partners to become franchisees of larger integrators.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 01, 2011
According to two recently released studies, most datacenter managers are not planning to increase their budgets this year, but overall IT spending is nevertheless expected to rise.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 01, 2011
Many small partners won't qualify for a gold competency under the new MPN. Merging with larger partners is one option, but many partners are reluctant to give up their independence. Now Microsoft is considering franchising as an alternative.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 31, 2011
Microsoft's Kristi Hofer, who has crisscrossed the country talking up Microsoft's proposed plan to create a franchise model for Dynamics partners, recently sat down with RCP to explain what such a model would mean for the MPN.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 31, 2011
Microsoft is planning some licensing changes that it says would benefit its Software Assurance (SA) customers and service provider partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 31, 2011