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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on March 16, 20260 comments
DataBahn announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft aimed at helping enterprises deploy data and artificial intelligence solutions at cloud scale, through Microsoft Sentinel. The collaboration focuses on accelerating the adoption of Microsoft technologies across enterprise environments, including data analytics and AI platforms. DataBahn provides consulting and implementation services designed to help organizations integrate data systems, modernize analytics environments and deploy AI-driven applications using Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem. Integrating DataBahn's AI-powered data pipeline directly into Microsoft Sentinel offers customers an accelerated data security onboarding, streamlined Microsoft Sentinel ingestion, eliminates custom data engineering overheads and uses existing Microsoft Azure commitments.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on March 12, 20260 comments
Huntress announced an expansion of its global partner program aimed at increasing access to cybersecurity services for managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers. The updated program introduces new resources, incentives and support structures designed to help partners deliver threat detection and response capabilities to small and midsize organizations. Huntress focuses on providing security tools that MSPs can deploy across client environments to identify and respond to cyber threats. The expanded partner ecosystem, purpose-built cybersecurity platform and agentic-AI powered SOC make enterprise-grade security accessible to all businesses regardless of size.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on March 11, 20260 comments
DataStrike announced an expansion of its Microsoft Fabric service offerings aimed at helping organizations deploy analytics and artificial intelligence solutions more quickly. The expanded services focus on helping enterprises adopt Microsoft Fabric for data integration, analytics and AI-driven insights. DataStrike provides consulting and implementation support designed to help organizations migrate data environments, build analytics pipelines and enable AI capabilities using the platform. The expansion helps customers on their Fabric journey by offering Fabric readiness and Proof-of-Concept (POC), Fabric Migration Services and Fabric Managed Services and Support for customers.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on March 10, 20260 comments
Microsoft says businesses are entering a new phase of digital transformation that centers on artificial intelligence and new ways of organizing work. In a blog post, the company described what it calls frontier transformation, a shift in which organizations use AI systems and digital tools to redesign business processes rather than simply digitizing existing workflows. The transformation creates a new business application, called agentic business applications, integrated with AI that is being used every day and moves beyond basic efficiency to create innovative opportunities for growth. The approach combines AI capabilities with enterprise data and collaboration platforms to automate tasks and support decision-making.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on March 10, 20260 comments
Simplilearn has launched the Applied Agentic AI: Systems, Design & Impact Program, an education initiative designed to prepare professionals to build and manage AI-driven systems within Microsoft’s technology ecosystem. The program targets product managers, architects and engineering leaders seeking practical skills in deploying agentic AI solutions at enterprise scale. Organizations face a critical talent gap for professionals to use agentic AI capabilities at scale. The program aims to address this gap by blending Microsoft's AI technological expertise with Simplilearn's expert training classes.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on March 02, 20260 comments
Blue Cycle LLC has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), a partner program that brings together independent software vendors and managed security providers whose solutions integrate with Microsoft Security technologies. The membership reflects its alignment with Microsoft’s security stack and commitment to collaborative threat defense. As a cybersecurity advisory and systems integrator firm joining MISA reflects Blue Cycle's aim to deliver sharp advisory, strong security technologies and real integration between third-party products and the Microsoft Security ecosystem.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on March 02, 20260 comments
Cirrus Nexus announced that its solutions are now available in Microsoft Marketplace, enabling customers to procure its cloud mobility services directly through Microsoft’s commercial platform. The launch of TrueCarbon offers automatic analysis of every workload across AWS and Azure to deliver accurate workload spend, performance and emissions. This offers continuous cloud optimizations and periodic strategy reporting. The move is intended to simplify purchasing and align Cirrus Nexus offerings with Azure-based modernization initiatives.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on March 02, 20260 comments
At MWC 2026, Amdocs announced a collaboration with Microsoft to bring AI-accelerated application capabilities to communications service providers and enterprises. The initiative is designed to integrate advanced AI services with cloud-native application environments, enabling faster innovation and more efficient operations. The collaboration uses Amdocs Agentic services into coordinated multi-agent workflows. Leveraging Microsoft services include Foundry, Azure, Migration Agents, GitHub Copilot and Fabric IQ, the agents aim to automate and orchestrate modernization activities to enterprises at scale.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on March 02, 20260 comments
Structured has launched an AI-native Partner Marketing Execution Platform (PMEP) designed to help companies plan, coordinate and measure joint marketing initiatives with ecosystem partners. Microsoft has deployed the platform to its global partner enterprise network, representing a shift in partner marketing and its ability to work at real enterprise scale. The platform centralizes campaign execution, content distribution and performance tracking, using artificial intelligence to streamline workflows that are often managed manually across spreadsheets and email threads. The platform features a "Just Ask" AI feature that allows partners to describe their goal which is then built, personalized and fully integrated with compliance to the task needed. Structured's AI-native architecture offers agentic and generative AI capabilities, centralized content, automated localization, configurable campaigns, full-funnel campaign orchestration and performance visibility.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on February 25, 20260 comments
White Rock Cybersecurity has launched Microsoft Professional Services, a set of customized services designed to help organizations modernize, secure and manage their Microsoft environments. The Dallas-based firm claims the offering provides end-to-end support across Microsoft 365, Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams and hybrid infrastructure, with a focus on migrations, configuration and security baseline implementation.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on February 25, 20260 comments
Commvault has expanded its integration with CrowdStrike to deliver bi-directional visibility between Commvault Cloud and CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, strengthening coordination between security and IT teams during cyber incidents. The integration allows Commvault to feed AI-powered anomaly alerts and data integrity insights directly into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, while leveraging CrowdStrike telemetry to help identify compromised backup data. The goal is to enable organizations to verify backup integrity more quickly and confidently before initiating recovery workflows.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on February 25, 20260 comments