SAP and Microsoft expand partnership
By: Jamie Davies Microsoft and SAP have extended a long-standing partnership to deliver broad support for the SAP HANA platform on Microsoft Azure. The extended partnership will focus on greater integration between the two portfolios to simplify work-through integrations between Microsoft Office 365 and cloud solutions from SAP. The new team also claim the combined […]
Microsoft Dynamics GP Users Increasingly Comfortable with the Cloud: New Survey
By: Valerie Miller Microsoft Dynamics GP users are still getting their feet wet when it comes to using cloud-based technology. In fact, less than one in 10 customers reports running Dynamics GP in the cloud. But give them time, because ERP and accounting are first in their cloud migration plans. So found MSDynamicsWorld in a […]
Why the former CIO of Gap moved from clothes to cloud
By: Clint Boulton After spending the past year investing in and advising a handful of retail and SaaS startups, Tom Keiser is again donning his CIO hat for Zendesk, a rising customer service software maker. One Big Bang digital transformation was enough for Tom Keiser. After overhauling legacy IT systems and updating ecommerce platforms, the […]
Rackspace extends Azure Fanatical Support footprint to Europe
By: Business Cloud News Rackspace has announced the unlimited availability launch of its Fanatical Support services for Microsoft Azure customers in the UK, Benelux and DACH regions, as well as two new service levels, Navigator and Aviator. The Fanatical Support was previously available in US markets, though the expansion puts the Azure service in line […]
IoT revenues grow to $6.7bn in Q4 2015
By: Business Cloud News A new study from Technology Business Research (TBR) has found IoT’s revenues have grown to $6.7 billion over the course of Q4. The research, which focused on the industry’s largest IoT players, including AWS, GE, Google, Intel and Microsoft amongst others, highlighted strong year-on-year growth as tier one vendors aim to […]
Rackspace prioritises AWS and Azure partnerships for future growth
By: Jamie Davies Rackspace has reported healthy growth for Q1 2016, as the team continues its transition to become managed services provider, leveraging partnerships with AWS and Microsoft Azure. Revenues for the first quarter were reported at $518 million, a year-on-year growth of 9.9%, while profits grew 77.5%. Although the growth of the business over […]
Salesforce plans to launch IoT offering on AWS
By: Business Cloud News Salesforce has announced plans to launch its new IoT offering on AWS facilities, moving away from it traditional play of using its own data centre infrastructure, reports The Wall Street Journal. The offering is reportedly going to be launched by Salesforce in the next couple of months, is currently available to […]
Amdocs and Microsoft team up to launch Cloud-Fusion
By: Business Cloud News Amdocs and Microsoft have collaborated to create an enterprise connectivity and applications solution, reports Telecoms.com. Amdocs Cloud-Fusion will, according to Amdocs, enable the development of cloud service offerings including bandwidth, WAN optimisation and the delivery of committed SLAs. The solution combines Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure and Amdocs’ NFV-ready Network Cloud Service […]
24% of businesses expect a cyberattack within the next 90 days
By: Jamie Davies Research from VMWare has highlighted 24% of office workers and IT decision makers believe their organization will be the victim of a cyberattack with the next 90 days, mainly due to the belief that the threats are advancing at a faster pace than a company’s defences. Although the statistics imply the event […]
Microsoft Cloud Open for Business in Canada
By: Linda Rosencrance Microsoft Canada has announced that Microsoft Azure is now generally available in Canada from local datacenter regions in Toronto and Quebec City. In addition, Office 365 is now offering data residency for Canadian business customers and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is set to go live by September of this year. This announcement […]