Azure

Sage sees three-way synergies with Salesforce in new Microsoft partnering deal

September 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Sage sees the tighter integration with Microsoft platform as good news for Sage partners, and for Microsoft partners looking to benefit from Sage Live’s innovation.

aid Nick Earle, senior vice president of cloud and managed services at Cisco

Cisco expands Intercloud Fabric capabilities, community

June 16, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco adds new technology to Intercloud Fabric, and introduces new offerings from partners including Calgary’s Long View Systems.

NetSuite announces alliance with Microsoft

May 11, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

How hyper-competitive NetSuite found an ally in a longtime rival as Microsoft transitions into a cloud-first, mobile-first company.

Microsoft channel chief Sorgen talks up cloud to partners

May 11, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

While the software giant is actively transforming itself into a cloud giant as well, its channel chief says partners need to take fuller advantage of what Microsoft can offer on this journey, and aggressively benchmark themselves in the transformation.

New version of EMC Avamar Virtual Edition integrates with Azure

December 16, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Azure becomes the first public cloud supported by Avamar outside the EMC federation.

Phil Filippelli, vice president of eBusiness at Tech Data

Tech Data’s full StreamOne coming to Canada

October 27, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Tech Data will bring its full StreamOne cloud, SaaS and app store to Canada in the next month as it continues to take the platform global.

IndependenceIT adds AWS to its Cloud Workspace Suite integrations

September 22, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The AWS integration follows up earlier ones with Azure and Google, to expand IndependenceIT’s reach and partner network.

Nutanix adds hybrid cloud, high performance appliance

August 19, 2014 Mark Cox 1

Nutanix believes the ability to offer public cloud capacity, together with a more powerful appliance, will make them the go-to vendor for any enterprise converged infrastructure project.

Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice president of the One Commercial Partner organization at Microsoft

Microsoft expands partner-owned billing options for cloud

July 16, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Microsoft offers up new options for partners to control billing for customers using Microsoft cloud products, and introduces new cloud programs and support.