managed services

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...

Westcon‑Comstor’s new partner summit, staged with Microsoft and billed as a targeted accelerator for cloud, AI and security adoption, signals a deliberate push to convert channel capacity into continent‑scale transformation for African businesses. Background Westcon‑Comstor has deep roots as a...

TrustedTech’s pivot from a licensing-focused reseller to a full-service Microsoft-first systems integrator is more than a new logo — it is a deliberate repositioning into the fast-growing market for Microsoft Copilot enablement, Azure tenant migrations, managed security, and onshore certified...

Ricoh Asia Pacific has launched a region‑wide “AI Learning Week” to rapidly arm more than a thousand employees with practical AI skills, accelerate Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent adoption, and convert device‑centric offerings into outcomes‑driven services for enterprise customers. Background /...

TrustedTech’s decision to rebrand and recast itself as a Microsoft-first cloud and AI systems integrator marks a deliberate pivot from transactional licensing to outcome-driven services aimed squarely at Copilot deployments, Azure migrations, and managed security — a move the company unveiled in...

Ricoh’s Asia Pacific unit has kicked off a region‑wide initiative to turn its people and products into a practical bridge between hardware and AI-driven productivity—announcing an internal "AI Learning Week" co‑sponsored by Microsoft and talent partner Talogy that aims to accelerate Microsoft...

TrustedTech’s move from a licensing-focused reseller to a full-spectrum Microsoft cloud and AI services partner marks a deliberate pivot into higher‑value professional services, signalling ambitions to capture demand for Copilot deployments, Azure migrations, and enterprise managed security—an...

Microsoft’s cloud team has quietly added a new safety net for customers running older MySQL engines on Azure: a paid Extended Support program for Azure Database for MySQL that preserves SLA-backed availability, delivers critical security updates, and keeps Azure engineers available for technical...

Sure’s Channel Islands data-centre arm has added Microsoft’s Azure Stack Hub to its managed portfolio, giving local organisations the ability to run Azure-consistent infrastructure-as-a-service workloads inside on-island facilities while keeping data, compliance controls and support physically...

Title: Urgent: CVE-2025-53793 — Azure Stack Hub “Improper Authentication” Information Disclosure (what admins need to know and do) Lede Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53793 describing an “improper authentication” vulnerability in Azure Stack Hub that can allow an...