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Called the Wingman Professional Services Program, the new offering is less a strategic pivot into a new revenue source than an effort to help partners get cloud infrastructure practices up and running swiftly.

A first for the company, the move gives members of Microsoft’s CSP program access to a dramatically expanded line of solutions while giving the developers of those solutions access to an entirely new sales channel.

The new “flexible consumption” payment option for the OEM’s VxRack Azure Stack hyperconverged infrastructure products arrives alongside the portfolio’s first all-flash storage configuration and new encryption key management and updating software.

The new system uses the vendor’s scale-out OneBlox storage arrays to help K-12 school districts, colleges, and universities manage rapidly swelling data volumes without performing forklift upgrades or creating hard-to-manage data silos.

The roughly 30 rigorously vetted partners to earn the new Azure Expert Managed Service Provider designation so far, which include giants like Rackspace and New Signature, are now Microsoft’s go-to options for outsourced Azure administration.

Announced on the eve of the vendor’s annual partner conference, the new and updated products give SMBs new options for experimenting with Microsoft’s answer to Slack, running online events, and more.

A wide-ranging series of policy and partner program changes instituted this month by North American Channel Chief Rob Cato (pictured) are designed to get the hardware maker back on track to recording consistent market share gains.

The two compact, affordable additions to the manufacturer’s T-Series of wide-format technical printers represent a cross-selling opportunity for resellers of Epson’s business inkjet products.

Based on technology from threat monitoring and management vendor Trusted Metrics, which SolarWinds has purchased, the new system offers multitenant intrusion detection, log management, threat intelligence, and more in one subscription-priced package.

CloudJumper’s Cloud Workspace and Streaming App Services products are now go-to options for The 20’s member MSPs.