Topic: Cloud - Page 82

Announced on day two of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, along with a host of additional product news, the new offerings will enable resellers to sell both Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and Surface hardware on an as-a-service basis for the first time.

The offering represents the latest step in a new effort by the BDR vendor to position its product portfolio as a unified, end-to-end solution rather than a collection of piece parts.

The distributor has added a revamped control panel, among other features, to its cloud e-commerce platform and made Acronis’s new Office 365 email backup solution available on its cloud marketplace.

Timed to coincide with the 2016 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, the dual product launches enable channel pros to backup SMB data both from and to the Microsoft cloud.

The enhanced MAPP offering features a “Business-in-a-Box” toolkit to help partners establish and maintain a repeatable data migration practice.

The new offering allows the hosting provider’s partners to sell Microsoft Azure and Office 365 licenses together with support from Rackspace technicians.

The new program enables cloud partners to deliver more value to SMB customers with travel and expense management solutions.

The DaaS provider’s next generation tool automates deployment of its turn-key Windows-based Citrix desktop.

Providers in the U.S. are optimistic on revenue, pessimistic about margins, and losing sleep over cloud computing, according to the results of a newly published research study.

The two-day event for solution providers included business and technology sessions, networking, and a keynote by former Doobie Brothers musician turned security expert.