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March 30, 2012  6:33 PM

Microsoft cloud research underscores channel’s role in adoption



Posted by: Heather Clancy
Cloud, Cloud Services, Heather Clancy, IT buyer market research, IT channel products and services, Microsoft, Small and Midsize Business, SMB

There's a new Microsoft survey out this week that suggests adoption of paid cloud services among businesses with two to 250 employees will double during the next five years. Right now, approximately 30 percent of all SMBs use some sort of paid cloud service, according to the research. That,...

February 13, 2012  8:57 PM

Microsoft, GE create health care IT venture



Posted by: Heather Clancy
GE Healthcare, healthcare IT, Heather Clancy, IT channel products and services, Microsoft

General Electric and Microsoft have disclosed some details around a new 50-50 venture, called Caradigm, that the two companies are creating to target the healthcare IT segment. (Try saying the name of the company out loud, and you'll get it.) The company, which will get its


September 21, 2011  7:47 PM

Microsoft partners catch a break, new deal registration program delayed



Posted by: Leah Rosin
Channel, deal registration, LAR, Microsoft, Microsoft partners

News has spread that Microsoft will delay the LAR deal registration program launch that was slated for on Oct. 1, 2011


August 31, 2011  2:54 PM

What’s next for HP: Five things to watch for



Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IT channel products and services, IT channel products and technologies, Jon Rubinstein, Microsoft, Todd Bradley, TouchPad

  How can this wacky Hewlett-Packard saga get even nuttier? LOTS of ways. Here are a few things to ponder going forward. 1: Track Jon Rubinstein.  The former Apple hardware...


July 26, 2011  6:08 PM

Muglia moves on to Juniper



Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow, Bob Muglia, IT channel products and services, IT channel products and technologies, Juniper Networks, Kevin Johnson, Microsoft

Bob Muglia, the respected exec who led Microsoft's gigantic server and tools business as well as Azure, has surfaced. At Juniper Networks.


July 15, 2011  4:28 PM

WPC: Parting thoughts from partners



Posted by: PatOuellette
IT channel products and services, Microsoft, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Pat Ouellette, Windows 7, Windows 8

LOS ANGELES -- As the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference wound down on Wednesday, here are some parting thoughts from attendees: -- The


July 13, 2011  5:33 PM

Microsoft WPC confidential



Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow, Bing, Cisco, Google, IT channel products and services, IT channel products and technologies, Microsoft, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Steve Ballmer, Steven Sinofsky

LOS ANGELES--Here are some threads floating around Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference that you won't see hear in any keynote. 1: If Steve Ballmer's out, who's in? Don't get me wrong. This partner crowd is not Wall Street -- there are no torches and pitchforks. But they...


July 12, 2011  1:35 PM

Microsoft WPC 2011: A newbie’s top ten list



Posted by: badarrow
Azure, IT channel products and services, Jon Roskill, Microsoft, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Pat Ouellette, Steve Ballmer

By Pat Ouellette, Associate Editor LOS ANGELES -- It’s been an eventful 24 hours since I hit the tarmac at LAX Sunday to attend my first Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). From Dodger Stadium and its army of police officers to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer explaining why his “all...


July 4, 2011  9:34 PM

Microsoft, ‘the F word’ and top ten questions for WPC



Posted by: badarrow
Azure, Barbara Darrow, Dynamics, IT channel products and services, IT channel products and technologies, Microsoft, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

By Pat Ouellette and Barbara Darrow, ITChannel Staff VARs heading into the  Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference next week have a lot of questions for the software giant. They want clarification of its cloud message and they need...


June 27, 2011  1:07 PM

Is Microsoft’s cloud scorched earth for partners?



Posted by: badarrow
Azure, Barbara Darrow, Channel, IT channel products and services, IT channel products and technologies, Microsoft, Microsoft cloud, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

If you want to know Microsoft's position vis-a-vis partners in the cloud, check out this money line buried in a new Microsoft-sponsored Harvard Business Review-produced white...

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