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Cloud virtual desktop provider Nerdio, which hosts its VDI service in Azure, now manages more than 1 Million Windows users. According to Nerdio’s founder and CEO Vadim Vladimirskiy, who announced the stat last week, the rapid growth of its service validates the viability of Azure Virtual Desktop as well as the new Windows 365 service….

Contact Center Provider NICE Joins Microsoft’s Business Apps ISV Connect Program NICE, among the leading contact center platform providers, this week said it has joined Microsoft’s Business Applications ISV Connect. The program is designed to let partners build and bring line of business applications to market on Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Microsoft’s Business…

B2B Hardware and Software Revenues through Channel Rose in First Half of 2021 Sales of hardware and software through the channel rose 9% in the first six months of this year, compared with the same period in 2020, according to market research firm NPD Group. The latest metric, published this week, indicates that revenues have…

Microsoft and Rubrik are announcing today an agreement that will likely shakeup the industry. Rubrik, a company that provides data protection, ransomware, and backup solution has entered into an agreement with the Redmond tech giant that involves equity investment. The reason that this is a significant arrangement is that with its cloud, Microsoft uses a…

Microsoft Extends its Services Partnership with EY Less than a year after the formation of the EY Microsoft Services Group, both companies are extending the partnership for five years. The group created by the accounting, business, and technology services provider this week said they are boosting their collaboration to build new solutions and platforms that…

If you based your expectations on the month of July about what types of companies Microsoft was looking to acquire, you could be forgiven if you believed they were only hunting for security-focused entities. After all, Microsoft did buy two different firms in recent weeks but today they are announcing that they have acquired another…

AWS Picks Up Share, Aims to Expand Microsoft Workload Migrations While Microsoft and Google have eaten into AWS share of the worldwide cloud infrastructure services market in recent quarters, Amazon bounced back in Q2. According to a report by Synergy Research Group, AWS now has a 33% of the cloud services market, based on the…

Kaseya Denies Paying Ransom for Key that Unlocks Data Encrypted by REvil Attack Plagued by ransomware attacks that exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Kaseya’s VSA remote monitoring and management (RMM) system used by managed services providers (MSPs), the company now has a tool to decrypt data locked by the attackers known as REvil. Kaseya’s Incident Response…

Nearly all MSPs now offer managed security services, according to Datto’s Global State of the MSP Report released Thursday. The remote monitoring and management (RMM) and data protection provider surveyed 1,800 MSPs for the report. According to the survey’s findings, 99% now provide managed security services, 50% have helped customers move more than half of…

It was a big week for the Microsoft ecosystem as the company held its annual Inspire partner conference. Like last year, Inspire was a 2-day virtual event because of the pandemic. But the absence of the traditional weeklong live gathering did not stop Microsoft from doling out the news that will impact much of the…

For the second year in a row, Microsoft is hosting its Inspire conference virtually but there is hope on the horizon that next year, it will be in person once again. But for companies that operate inside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, this is a big week as Microsoft has unveiled new products and solutions for…