Topic: Partner Programs - Page 68

Added incentives support new customer acquisition, solution selling, and wireless specialization.

In an opening day keynote presentation, Microsoft’s CEO highlighted snap-together business applications, artificial intelligence, and “mixed reality” solutions as core elements of Microsoft’s long-term strategy.

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 offering includes integrations between APC by Schneider Electric hardware and RMM solutions from four leading vendors.

The new program offers increased differentiation and rewards for partners.

Available free to anyone enrolled in the Spiceworks professional IT network, they include a mobile app, personalized newsfeed, and connectivity troubleshooting tool.

Targeted at local and regional VARs, the program enables channel pros to build a private cloud computing practice without first acquiring OpenStack skills.

The Internet of Things and solid-state drives joined the more traditional PC as key priorities for 2016 in keynotes today at the 2016 Intel Solutions Summit.

The specialty distributor is now authorized to sell unified wired and wireless solutions powered by Ruckus and Juniper technology.