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ProsperOps’ announcement that it has achieved Microsoft Azure IP Co‑Sell status on December 17, 2025 marks a consequential step for the cloud‑cost optimization vendor and gives Azure customers a new, marketplace‑transactable route to apply ProsperOps purchases toward Microsoft Azure Consumption...

Microsoft Ignite 2025 made one thing unmistakably clear for founders and early-stage teams: the next phase of enterprise software won’t be driven by bigger models alone, but by agentic systems—identity-bound, policy-aware AI agents that plan, act, and collaborate across cloud, productivity, and...

Microsofts Ignite‑Auftritt hat die Perspektive für Unternehmen klar verschoben: Copilot ist nicht länger nur ein Assistent, sondern wird zur Plattform für produktive, agentengetriebene Automatisierung — und Partner wie Reply liefern konkrete Playbooks dafür, wie Organisationen Copilot‑Funktionen...

Microsoft Ignite 2025 opens this week as an unmistakably “AI‑first” conference: Nov. 18–21 in San Francisco (with an optional pre‑day on Nov. 17) and a parallel digital program, a hybrid format that promises product reveals, partner playbooks, and hard technical sessions aimed at moving agentic...

Microsoft Ignite arrives in San Francisco next week as a high-stakes, AI-first showcase where Microsoft and its partner ecosystem will attempt to convert heavy infrastructure and Copilot investments into tangible products, security assurances, and integration patterns that enterprises can...

HCLSoftware and Microsoft have launched a global collaboration to deliver HCLSoftware’s new Xperience‑Data‑Operations (XDO) blueprint on Microsoft Azure, packaging HCL’s enterprise software portfolio as Azure‑hosted offerings available through the Microsoft commercial marketplace—and positioning...

ZainTECH’s new ExpressRoute listing on the Azure Marketplace marks a practical turning point for Kuwait’s cloud strategy: by packaging private, low‑latency links to Microsoft Azure as a Marketplace SKU, ZainTECH — together with Zain Kuwait, Zain Omantel International (ZOI) and Microsoft — has...

Microsoft’s latest push to put “agents” at the center of work—through a native Agent Store inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and a unified Microsoft Marketplace web destination—moves the company from experimental tooling to a platform play designed to make AI agents discoverable, governable, and...

ProsperOps’s announcement that it won a 2025 CloudX Award in the Cloud Management category underscores how FinOps automation has moved from niche optimization tooling into the mainstream cloud infrastructure conversation, but the recognition also raises important questions about claims...

Microsoft’s latest push asks partners to take a decisive step beyond selling cloud capacity: modernise entire technology stacks, unify messy data estates, and build AI-native applications on Azure — and it is backing that ask with a tightly connected set of program changes, incentives, skilling...

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...

Vena’s first half of fiscal 2026 has been a clear inflection point: the company announced it has surpassed 2,000 customers worldwide, rolled out a Teams‑native version of its AI assistant, expanded marketplace availability across Microsoft channels, and collected a string of industry honors that...

Board’s Microsoft alliance — crowned by a Solutions Partner designation and deeper Azure integration — recasts the company from a niche EPM vendor into a credible contender for AI-driven, enterprise-scale planning workflows. Background Board announced availability of the Board Enterprise...

Deploying Sophos Firewall into Microsoft Azure is a practical way to extend enterprise-grade network protection into your cloud estate, whether you need a single standalone perimeter VM, an active-passive HA pair behind an Azure Load Balancer, or an integrated Sophos Central-managed...

CellTrust’s SL2 is now listed in Microsoft AppSource and is available directly through the Microsoft Teams Store, bringing enterprise-grade mobile message capture and compliance controls into the Teams workflow and lowering the friction for regulated organisations to govern SMS, WhatsApp and...

A confusing product page for a 15.6‑inch Lenovo IdeaPad has surfaced on a third‑party site, promising a modern Windows 11 laptop with 1 year of Microsoft Office 365, Wi‑Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.x, and a blend of eMMC + PCIe SSD storage, but the listing mixes multiple processor and display claims in...

Pax8, a leading cloud commerce marketplace, is spearheading a transformative shift in the Managed Service Provider (MSP) landscape by introducing the concept of "Managed Intelligence." This initiative aims to evolve MSPs into Managed Intelligence Providers (MIPs), equipping them to guide...

The cloud transformation journeys of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have always hinged on the ability of managed service providers (MSPs) to keep up with, and harness, the most consequential technology trends. Today, with artificial intelligence (AI) reshaping the definition of...

Microsoft’s decision to globally unbundle its Teams collaboration platform from the iconic Office suite represents not only a significant juncture for the tech giant but also an undeniable shift within the broader productivity software landscape. This strategic maneuver, prompted by persistent...

Here's a summary of the recent news and rumors about Microsoft allegedly testing Steam integration within the Microsoft Store, and what this could mean for Xbox and PC gaming: Rumor Origin: The source of the rumor is a known industry insider, eXtas1s, who claims that Microsoft is internally...