Partner enablement ensures successful business transformation for AC3 Many enterprises are now shifting away from the single service integrator model and are looking towards a multi-provider model or ‘broker of services’ to improve service levels, maintain competitive price structures, and enable access to specialist vendors and technologies. How Multi-Sourcing Service Integrators (MSIs)…
Market Data and Trends While popular and entrenched in some data centers, proprietary UNIX implementations (AIX, HP-UX, Oracle Solaris) continue to lose market share. IDC predicts that Linux will be one of only two operating systems left standing. (The other is Microsoft Windows.) Red Hat commands a 62 percent and growing share of the paid…
rhipe wins three awards at the 2016 Microsoft Australia Partner Awards, more than any other Microsoft partner. rhipe (ASX:RHP) is proud to announce it has won three Microsoft Australia Partner Awards and is the only licensing and distribution partner to win awards this year. Nominated alongside Data#3, Insight, Ingram Micro, Dicker Data, Empired and…
KEMP’s new consumption and licencing options for its virtual load balancers and ADCs - delivered in partnership with rhipe, enable Cloud Service Providers to offer highly available, scalable, and resilient enterprise applications to their customers. Pioneering Asia-Pacific cloud channel company, rhipe (ASX:RHP), has added KEMP Technologies’ leading application delivery solutions to its portfolio of…
If I were more of a betting man one of two things would be likely: I'd have better luck at the Melbourne Cup; and I'd put small sums of money that most of that most of us really haven't backed Microsoft's EMS (formerly known as Enterprise Mobility Suite, now rebranded as Enterprise Mobility + Security)…
I’m not a big fan of using fear to motivate just about anything, but in the business world who wants to lead a business into irrelevance? I'm not a big fan of using fear to motivate just about anything, but in the business world who wants to lead a business into irrelevance? There are no…
As you may know, Microsoft sponsors many studies of the market dynamics that effect business and business IT today. One of those studies focuses specifically on the Cloud and Hosting market and has been executed by 451 Research in recent years. In the first blog of this series, I was reviewing the first time I…
After three late nights tweeting on Australian time, we have the final keynotes of WPC16… (if you want to watch the keynotes yourself then they are available here https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/wpc/wpc-2016-vision-keynotes).* On previous days I have done a single all up summary, but today I’m going to break out Brad Smith as I feel it needs to stand…
3 Ambitions, 3 VP’s On Day 1 Satya Nadella described the three core ambitions that Microsoft will pivot the business around in FY17. Today it was the turn of three VPs to flesh out the story for each of these: Build the intelligent cloud platform - Scott Guthrie (@scottgu), Executive VP Cloud + Enterprise Group (but…
Digital Transformation leads at WPC 2016 FY17 Ambitions The biggest thing I look for each year at World Partner Conference (WPC) is the clear partner oriented statement of where Microsoft will be focusing their effort in the coming FY. This is important because the internal scorecards/ metrics will have these as their foundation. If partners want…
