Ingram Micro leads Microsoft partners to recurring revenue streams by adding private-label hosted Exchange, SharePoint and CRM services to its Seismic SaaS offerings.
- By Joanne Cummings
- July 01, 2008
The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston is the channel's biggest networking opportunity of the year.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 27, 2008
For many partners these days, the question isn't <i>whether </i>to develop vertical expertise. It's how to do it. Here's what you need to know to tap into these markets.
- By Rich Freeman
- June 01, 2008
Channel leaders who have established themselves as trusted advisors tell how they made their clients' businesses their business.
- By Fred Bayles
- June 01, 2008
By adding key Microsoft System Center Essentials capabilities to its N-central 6.5 multi-customer management solution, N-able is creating a single powerful console for both tools.
- By Joanne Cummings
- June 01, 2008
Sure, schmoozing is a big part of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. But to get the maximum benefit from the event, you need to do more than mingle. Here are our picks for a dozen-plus sessions that you won't want to miss.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 01, 2008
A weakening economy might have been in the news for months now, but the results of <i>RCP</i>'s second annual salary survey show that a possible recession isn't yet hitting partners' pockets. In fact, on the whole, executives at partner companies are doing better than they did in 2007 -- and high demand for their skills may keep that trend going.
- By Lee Pender
- June 01, 2008
Internal Microsoft e-mails made public by the "Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit against the company reveal infighting, partner favoritism and a general sense of confusion -- none of which, it turns out, is all that unusual in the software industry.
- By Lee Pender
- May 01, 2008
As recession trickles through the economy, those in IT need to make sure operations remain ship-shape through it all. Here's a guide.
- By Anne Stuart
- May 01, 2008
Every type of hardware -- from chips to PCs to wireless LANs -- is evolving to support new enterprise demands for mobilization, virtualization and conservation.
- By Joanne Cummings
- May 01, 2008
In the era of Software+Services, Microsoft takes a different approach to software licensing than Web hosting companies and managed service providers. Microsoft's Michael van Dijken explains in the Q&A.
- By Michael Domingo
- April 21, 2008
Microsoft and its partners are discovering that environmentally responsible computing isn't just a nice thing to do -- it's potentially lucrative, too.
- By Fred Bayles
- April 01, 2008
Without official vendor backing, 100-plus partner companies have formed lively homegrown peer groups to support each other and kick-start their businesses.
- By Anne Stuart
- April 01, 2008
Major players busy broadening technology's appeal.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 01, 2008
Though portable, the new device is targeted to office and home workers rather than to hard-core road warriors.
- By Lee Pender and RCP Staff
- April 01, 2008
Rev. 12 now sports centralized management, VMware support, self-service data recovery and more.
- By Joanne Cummings
- April 01, 2008
SQL Server 2008 is adding functionality in all directions, opening new opportunity areas for partners. One area that isn't growing: the price tag.
- By Joanne Cummings
- April 01, 2008
New offerings are first backup products with Windows Server 2008 certification from Microsoft.
- By Lee Pender and RCP Staff
- April 01, 2008
Microsoft is putting tens of thousands of pages of interoperability documents online. Its partners may need to find new ways to make peace with open source software.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 01, 2008
Microsoft's Open Value Subscription licensing plan essentially lets customers rent software rather than buy it, for substantially less money. Will small and midsize businesses take the bait?
- By Rich Freeman
- March 01, 2008