Congratulations to Microsoft APC 2013 MAPA winners

(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, Newlease) Congratulations to all the finalists and especially to this years winners: Partner of the Year Category Partner Public Cloud for SMB Paradyne Public Cloud Enterprise Object Consulting Public Cloud Ensyst App Dev Readify BI WardyIT Collaboration and Content nSynergy Communications Ensyst CRM eSavvy Data Platform WardyIT Device and…

Collection of Cloud Related Links #6

(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, NewLease) As part of the ongoing NewLease mission to share our passion and understanding for the Cloud, please find another collection of articles that relate to the Cloud Service Provider market: Article My comments http://www.inc.com/matthew-bellows/four-reasons-not-to-hire-a-salesperson.html When is it too early to hire a dedicated salesperson and when is the…

Collection of Cloud Related Links #5

(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, NewLease) My list of interesting articles is growing quicker than I can pass them on so this should in theory provide greater choice. Hopefully I have selected the more interesting ones. As always there is no particular order to these articles and the short explanation of why I think…

Collection of Cloud Related Links #4

(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, NewLease) My ongoing quest for interesting (IMHO) cloud related articles continues.  Having started in January I cannot believe that we are already in March – I’m not sure I have kept a New Year promise this long for many years!! As always there is no particular order to these…

Collection of Cloud Related Links #3

(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, NewLease) Update #3 now heading your way. Lots going on at the moment in the Microsoft world, both Cloud and traditional Windows. The 29th February seemed to sum up so much of the challenges facing the industry and Microsoft: Windows 8 Consumer Preview was launched with much excitement. This…

Collection of Cloud Related Links #1

(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, NewLease) I read lots of articles from various media sources every day and whilst most of it goes straight into the “do not file” bucket, there are some that I at least find interesting.  Of course my definition of interesting is biased, but I trust that for some people,…

BPOS / Office365 / InTune News and Links #2

(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy) Another set of links for potentially interesting cloud materials. Promotions Don’t forget Velocity incentives (A$1,000 for 20+ seat deals and A$2,000 for 50+ seat deals) more info at http://www.msonlineservices.com.au/ Also if for any reason you have not yet sorted out Cloud Essentials and/or Cloud Accelerate then head over to…