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Lab Experiment: Hypervisors

Is there really a performance difference between hypervisors from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix? We put them under a microscope and stress-tested them for days to find out the answer.

Postscript: BearingPoint Breaking Up

Company to sell off its business to competitors.

Channel: Apptix Looks to Channel for Growth

Hosting company launches partner program to sell hosted Exchange, SharePoint and other products.

Microsoft Rolls Out Matchmaker for Partners

In a move aimed at helping partners refer leads to other solution providers who may offer complementary products and services, Microsoft earlier this month quietly rolled out a new lead-generation portal.

Datacenter Design Leader Leaves Microsoft

A key Microsoft team member involved with the modular design of Microsoft's server farms has joined another company.

Microsoft Partner Phase 2 Adds IBM's Hosted Apps

Phase 2 International now offers online IBM Lotus applications to SMBs, adding to its various hosted service offerings which already include a Microsoft solution stack.

HP Selling Cloud Assurance to Enterprises

HP rolled out a service suite this week to help enterprise IT departments adopt and manage cloud-based services.

Bekker Gets All a-Twitter

At times more burdensome than helpful, Twitter becomes a business driver in these challenging times. So, how are partners using it?

Lean and Green

The economy may be bad, but green is still good -- for everyone in the extended Microsoft ecosystem.

Marketing: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Partners are increasingly going to be on their own when it comes to marketing, with fewer SoftBucks to grease the marketing skids.

Microsoft Rolls Out Windows Embedded Services

Microsoft on Monday announced a new services capability that's part of its Windows Embedded Server product line.

Anatomy of a Merger

Credit markets are frozen. Venture capital is in hibernation. The overall M&A market is falling off a cliff. Yet, in the worst economic quarter in decades, two midsize Microsoft partner firms in the Twin Cities area consummated a deal. How did it happen?

Product Roundup: It's Virtually Easy Being Green

A roundup of green alternatives in the virtualization space.

RCP Platinum Partner Program

Find out which third-party programs your peers say sell better together with Microsoft solutions.

Financial Forecast: IDC Revises 2009 IT Spending Forecast Downward Again

Research firm's Channel Panel also reports continuing drop in confidence.