managed services

  1. Bloom Azure DevOps Services: Managed DevOps with DevSecOps, Governance, Scale

    Bloom Consulting Services’ newly announced Azure DevOps Services package is less a product launch than a signal about where the managed-services market is heading. The company is positioning itself around faster delivery, better collaboration, and scalable digital innovation, which fits squarely...
  2. Defend Your Cloud: Managed Microsoft Defender Security for Hybrid & Multi-Cloud

    As organisations accelerate their digital transformation journeys, cloud adoption has become central to agility, innovation and scale. But as workloads move beyond traditional data centres into hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the attack surface expands and cybersecurity complexity...
  3. Microsoft CSP and Copilot Shift: How UK Channel Partners Win 2026

    Microsoft’s channel ecosystem is entering a new phase: less about license resale, more about operational value, AI-led transformation and the services wrapped around the Microsoft stack. As partners across the UK and Ireland described it, the opportunity now sits in helping customers adopt...
  4. Informatica Deepens Microsoft Azure Integration: A Native Data Platform for MSPs

    Informatica’s deeper Microsoft integration is more than a routine channel update: it signals how quickly the data-management market is converging around the Azure ecosystem, and how service providers are being positioned as the delivery engine for that change. The move matters because it ties...
  5. TierPoint Earns Microsoft Solutions Partner Designation for Support 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...
  6. Simform Becomes Azure Expert MSP: Engineering Driven Cloud Managed Services

    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...
  7. Hubtel IT expands team to drive AI and cybersecurity for West Midlands SMEs

    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...
  8. Azure Migrations Rely on MSPs for Security, Backups and DR

    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...
  9. Cancom Shifts to Productized Hybrid Cloud and Microsoft‑Centric Services

    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...
  10. Reply Retains Sixth Consecutive Azure Expert MSP Badge for Enterprise Scale

    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...
  11. Reply Reconfirmed as Microsoft Azure Expert MSP for the Sixth Consecutive Year

    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...
  12. Reply Secures Sixth Consecutive Azure Expert MSP Renewal

    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...
  13. Reply renews Azure Expert MSP for sixth year signaling enterprise managed services maturity

    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...
  14. Reply Retains Azure Expert MSP Status for Sixth Consecutive Year

    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...
  15. Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure: Azure Native Managed File Service

    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...
  16. Agentic AI and Data Governance: A Channel Playbook for Production-Ready Agents

    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...
  17. ICG MSP Spotlight: Trust and ERP Driven Managed Services for Manufacturers

    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...
  18. VysionTech Free MSP Trial Delivers Enterprise IT Security Through 2025

    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...
  19. IBN Cloud Backup Services: Azure Integrated Resilience for Modern Enterprises

    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...
  20. Logicom Expands Cisco Managed XDR and Meraki in Cyprus at Cisco Connect 2025

    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...