Topic: Industry Events - Page 48

Announced at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, the new offerings let resellers provide self-serve access to Microsoft cloud solutions, including new Microsoft Azure service bundles. They were accompanied by a new cloud business process self-assessment tool as well.

Channel pros who invest in building high-performing cloud practices will be first in line to benefit from the new resources, which are designed to make Microsoft’s top partners more visible to sales prospects.

Announced on day two of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, along with a host of additional product news, the new offerings will enable resellers to sell both Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and Surface hardware on an as-a-service basis for the first time.

Tasked with helping channel pros profit from near-term IoT opportunities, the new group will offer both validated solution reference architectures and an array of partner enablement offerings.

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 COO will leave the company for a CEO role in the financial services sector at the end of the month, in a transition that also has members of Microsoft’s senior leadership team assuming new responsibilities.

The two-day event for solution providers included business and technology sessions, networking, and a keynote by former Doobie Brothers musician turned security expert.

In keynotes and interviews with ChannelPro, company executives talk up opportunities in the security market and underutilized logistical services that can boost reseller profits.

The community sessions will focus on sharing best practices and business challenges at the “Breaking Boundaries” event, which also features CompTIA Executive Certificate courses, specialty tracks in sales and leadership, community and council sessions, plus Tracks4Techs.

A new alliance agreement with containerization leader Docker, additions to the 3PAR StoreServ flash storage family, and a new “composable data fabric” vision were among today’s slew of announcements.