As the economy continues to bump along, throwing off signals both that it might be headed up or down, a major component of the channel is reflecting the same confusing lack of clear trends.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 01, 2010
Proposal excludes wireless bandwidth and calls for weak FCC regulation. Critics allege the approach would create "private fast lanes" for "big players" and a "winding dirt road" for "the little guy."
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 01, 2010
Microsoft offers new SQL Server migration tools for MySQL and updated tools for Access, Oracle and Sybase.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 01, 2010
The Windows Azure Platform Appliance is coming this fall. While you can't buy one of these limited-production releases, it could portend the future of private clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 01, 2010
Simply put, if you create a cool product and want to deliver it via the cloud, you need to create your own channel.
- By Keith Lubner
- September 01, 2010
New soft PBX platform due out by end of year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2010
Relax, there's a future with Microsoft in the cloud, channel chief Allison Watson plans to tell partners at this month's WPC. That's not to say it won't take hard work to get there. Watson and pioneering partners share their flight path to profits.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2010
The IT M&A market is heating up -- here's the questions you need to answer to be ready for your next possible acquisition.
- By Mike Harvath
- July 01, 2010
First service pack coming this month for Windows Server 2008 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2010
Now that SharePoint 2010 is shipping, partners are primed to handle upgrades on customers' terms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 01, 2010
Microsoft leads partners to side with Citrix in virtualization's newest battle.
- By John K. Waters
- July 01, 2010
A Q&A with university CIO Michele Norin.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 01, 2010
Five years ago this month, we launched our first issue of Redmond Channel Partner magazine. The goal then, as it is now, was to be an independent voice of the Microsoft partner community with a mission of driving partner success.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2010
These deployments show that not all cloud migrations are a one-way street.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 01, 2010
An experiment with deal registration for Microsoft partners suggests that the company is looking for alternatives to its current reseller structure. As with many changes, this is fraught with both opportunity and risk.
- By Paul DeGroot
- July 01, 2010