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Quest sees strong channel role in new Quest on Demand Migration module

July 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Quest on Demand Migration has been sold since the end of March, but is being officially announced at Microsoft Inspire. All of the deals which have closed in the quarter plus since it has been available have gone through partners.

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Archive360 enhances SharePoint Online, announces support for new Microsoft services

September 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Archive360 supports Azure Archival, the Azure alternative to AWS Glacier, as well as Microsoft Azure Cognitive & Media Services, which allows accurate transcription of audio and video files in real time.

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Document management vendor FileHold strengthens search capability by embedding dtSearch engine

August 17, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

FileHold’s FastFind, Powered by dtSearch, now lets customers search for documents even when they are in a third-party application.

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Do your customers love Office 365, but avoid the cloud?

June 13, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

A Softchoice survey finds that while customers accept Office 365 as a way of licensing software, many aren’t moving their infrastructure into the cloud.

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Veeam announcements around Microsoft Azure highlight Cloud Day at VeeamON

May 18, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The final day of VeeamON saw Veeam announce a new DR tool for Azure, management pack enhancements for better visibility, and improvements to Backup for Office 365.

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Kitchener-based Intranet provider Igloo looking to build out channel in North America

January 27, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Igloo, which makes a cloud-based SaaS solution that includes Intranets within a broad array of collaboration and other business apps, presently has no partners in North America. Now, however, having piloted a partner program in other geos last year, they are looking to change that.

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Momentum, opportunity highlight Microsoft Office 365 messaging at WPC

July 14, 2016 Mark Cox 3

Office 365 business continues to show impressive growth, although Microsoft is impressing upon partners that the real money here doesn’t come from selling subscriptions, but in integrating it into other solutions and building their own custom offerings on top.

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Migration vendor Metalogix looks to enhance channel appeal with formalized partner program

July 11, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Metalogix built up a strong business on a model where the channel business was limited and basically transactional. The company has now implemented a more complex go-to-market model in which an expanded channel with practices around migration is a key part.

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DH2i sees first Containers-as-a-Service solution for SQL Server as massively disruptive

April 11, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

DH2i partners with Rackspace to make its container management software available as a cloud offering for SQL. They see potential to expand with other cloud provider partners, and with other Microsoft software, and see it as a valuable managed service for their own partners.

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Toronto solution provider TechBlocks chosen for Microsoft IoT Red Carpet program

February 10, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

TechBlocks’ experience with the Azure platform and their having established a presence in IoT solutions leads Microsoft to pick them as a go-to IoT partner in Canada.

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Metalogix adds Exchange data protection to Essentials for Office 365

December 7, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Essentials for Office 365 now provides a unified backup for Exchange, Sharepoint and Onedrive, all the major applications where content lives.

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New Signature purchases Toronto-based imason

November 3, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Washington DC-based New Signature continues its expansion into Canada, buying Toronto-based application development specialist imason.

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New analytics, productivity app integrations to highlight Microsoft Dynamics release

September 14, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

While the new Dynamics CRM 2016 isn’t scheduled for release until Q4, there are some major changes here which will interest partners, some of which should lead to new opportunities.

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