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With a bold new CEO at the helm who just penned a note to employees outlining a refined mobile first, cloud first vision, more than 16,000 descended upon Washington D.C. this morning for Day 1 of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC).

“These new machines present an outstanding opportunity for SMBs to move away from the underutilized floor units that addressed the paper-intensive document production needs of the past,” says Steve Feldstein, Brother Director of Marketing for SMB laser products. “By deploying multiple devices in closer proximity to end users, businesses can increase accessibility to help boost productivity in today’s printing environment.”

Exoprise’s CloudReady Monitor can now help IT teams monitor the performance and availability on just about every cloud application, website, or service a business may be using, thanks to some new crowd-powered health and network sensors. The result gives IT managers Minority Report-like powers, the ability to identify and fix issues before they happen.

IDG’s Computerworld announces Datto, a preferred provider of hybrid cloud-based backup, disaster recovery (BDR) and Intelligent Business Continuity (IBC) solutions, as a 2014 Best Places to Work in IT – one of 100 top organizations that challenge their IT staffs while providing great benefits and compensation. Organizations will be included in coverage in Computerworld along with results from the 21st annual Best Places to Work in IT survey.

Amazon’s new Fire smartphone is exactly what you would expect an Amazon phone to be—a 4.7-inch pocket store that also makes calls.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and VP of Surface Computing Panos Panay took the stage this morning at a press event in New York to reveal the most advanced Surface Pro device yet.

It seems like only yesterday the ChannelPro Network was in sunny Orlando covering Lenovo’s Accelerate Partner Conference… Wait! It was yesterday! Thanks to a little bit of planning and geographical convenience (not to mention a hankerin’ for warm weather), ChannelPro gets to bring you a little bit of in-person coverage from not one, but TWO partner events back-to-back in the same area Mr. Mickey Mouse calls home.†

Lenovo’s Accelerate keynote kicks off in Sunny Orlando and ChannelPro is covering it live.

We’ve been expecting a new 10-inch ThinkPad tablet since the ThinkPad Tablet 8 hit the scene a few months back, and sure enough the Tablet 2’s successor has finally arrived.

If you thought that fancy new 10-inch ThinkPad Tablet was the only thing Lenovo had to show at its Accelerate partner conference, then you don’t know Lenovo very well. No Lenovo event is complete without a killer new ThinkStation to show, and the new P300 brings a lot of unique flexibility and power to channel resellers at desktop-class pricing.