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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.

Shared customers of the two vendors can now quote structured cabling and associated construction projects more easily and efficiently.

A new data breach risk scanning feature helps users find unpatched operating systems and applications, device settings that don’t meet configuration requirements, and more than 60 types of sensitive personally identifiable information.

The machine learning-equipped system helps businesses generate more sales leads by identifying the next purchase an existing customer is likely to make.

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 new TPx Complete package combines unified communications with managed IT and security offerings in a one-stop-shopping package offering 100 percent guaranteed performance and discounts of up to 40% off the cost of individual products.

The two companies will develop a fingerprint sensor offering hardened biometric security and biometric authentication for notebook PCs based on AMD’s Ryzen Mobile platform.

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.