managed services

TierPoint’s announcement that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Support Services on March 10, 2026, cements a broad, multi-year push by the company to align tightly with Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem — adding an audited, Microsoft-vetted endorsement of its service and...

Simform’s elevation to Microsoft’s Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP) tier is more than a marketing milestone — it’s a signal that the company has met Microsoft’s most exacting operational standards for running Azure at scale, and that it intends to position engineering discipline...

Hubtel IT’s decision to expand headcount by 25% and set an ambitious turnover target of more than £2.5 million for 2026 marks a deliberate pivot by a regional managed‑services firm to build commercial value around artificial intelligence and cybersecurity while consciously balancing human-led...

Businesses moving to Microsoft Azure are increasingly doing it with a partner at their side: a new NetEnrich survey shows most organizations are “very likely” to hire a managed services provider to migrate to or manage Azure, and they point to security, backups and disaster recovery as the...

Cancom SE is quietly reshaping its identity from a classic German systems integrator into a repeatable, Microsoft‑centric hybrid cloud and managed‑services operator — a shift that matters because Europe’s mid‑market now prizes sustained uptime, security and FinOps as much as cloud-native...

Reply’s confirmation as a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider for the sixth consecutive year is a clear market signal: the group — through Cluster Reply, Solidsoft Reply and Valorem Reply — has sustained the audited operational maturity Microsoft’s top-tier partner program requires...

Reply has been recognized once again as a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (Azure Expert MSP) — the sixth consecutive annual renewal for the group — a milestone that underlines Reply’s continuing alignment with Microsoft’s most demanding partner criteria and puts its specialist...

Reply’s renewed recognition as a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (Azure Expert MSP) for the sixth consecutive year reaffirms the group’s long-running position among Microsoft’s most rigorously assessed cloud partners and underlines the continued commercial importance of a...

Reply’s renewed recognition as a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (Azure Expert MSP) for the sixth consecutive year is a clear market signal: it reaffirms the group’s operational maturity on Azure while resurfacing important procurement and governance questions for enterprise...

Reply’s latest renewal as a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP) — reportedly the sixth consecutive year the group has held the badge — is both a résumé-building milestone for the Reply network and a practical procurement signal for enterprises that rely on Azure for...

Dell and Microsoft have formally launched an Azure‑native, Dell‑managed edition of Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure, moving PowerScale’s OneFS scale‑out file system into the Azure control plane as a transactable, fully managed file service aimed at AI, media, EDA and other data‑intensive...

ThoughtSpot, Commvault, Avanade and a wave of other vendors used the 24 November briefing cycle to sharpen two clear messages for the channel: agentic AI is moving from showpiece demos into production patterns, and data governance — not raw model capability — will decide who wins. The week’s...

ICG’s vendor spotlight in CIOReview underscores a familiar but still essential message for organizations buying outsourced IT: trust and consistency are the currency of modern managed services. The feature frames ICG (Innovative Consulting Group) as an MSP that builds both through a...

VysionTech this week rolled out a bold, no-cost offer that promises “enterprise-grade” managed IT services to every business willing to try them — free through December 31, 2025 — a move designed to accelerate security posture upgrades, simplify Windows 10 end‑of‑life planning, and coax small...

U.S. enterprises are accelerating adoption of Cloud Backup Services from IBN Technologies as part of broader efforts to harden business continuity, streamline disaster recovery, and reduce the operational risk posed by ransomware, system failures, and regulatory complexity. The vendor’s...

The Cisco Connect Cyprus 2025 conference in Nicosia underlined a pivotal shift in the island’s IT landscape: Logicom Solutions used the stage not just to celebrate long-standing vendor ties, but to position itself as a local leader in end-to-end Cisco-managed services — expanding from...

This week’s channel headlines make one thing clear: vendors are sharpening routes to market for managed service providers, packaging flexibility and automation into partner programmes, subscription platforms and AI-first security products that are explicitly aimed at shrinking the gap between...

Former Parallo engineers Shaun Webber, Symon Thurlow and Jay Strydom have quietly reassembled to launch Spotto.ai, an AI-native Azure cloud optimisation platform aimed squarely at MSPs and SaaS teams wrestling with runaway cloud bills and fragmented operations. (reseller.co.nz, spotto.app)...

Microsoft’s formal end-of-support date for Windows 10—October 14, 2025—has pushed local managed‑IT providers into high gear, warning businesses that failure to prepare will increase security exposure, complicate compliance, and make future hardware purchases more expensive and time consuming...

Screenvision Media’s technology team has completed a rapid, strategic modernization of its core systems by moving to a multi‑cloud environment built on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a migration executed by long‑time partner Cintra over a concentrated 12‑week window and...