Recently, there has been a lot of talk about Azure Arc. Is it replacing SPLA? Is it hosted in Azure? What is it exactly? In this article, we will break down Azure Arc, what it is, and how service providers can use Azure Arc successfully.

This is a great opportunity in which service providers can really differentiate themselves from other large public cloud providers.  In this article, we will review the new rule, what it [...]

If someone were to ask me to sum up 2018 for the hosting community in one word, I would say “choice”.    I could also use the often overplayed words such [...]

In this article, we look at how a traditional service provider can leverage Azure to provide SaaS or IaaS to their end users.  We will review purchasing options, licensing, and [...]

Microsoft announced (July 2018) that Server Subscriptions will be available through the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program (CSP).  According to the July 2018 Product Terms the products available include: SQL [...]

As companies’ cloud usage increases, so do their costs. As such, commercial customers are looking for cost-effective solutions for their predictable cloud workloads. That’s why leading cloud vendors give customers [...]

Recently, Microsoft announced Azure RI’s are now available in CSP.  Lots of talk about comparing it to AWS, the cost savings over traditional pricing models, and leveraging existing Windows Server [...]

Last Thursday, Microsoft announced Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RI) will be available in the CSP program as well as Windows Server and SQL Server subscriptions.   This is big news [...]

“We assumed that everything was the same, i.e., it’s a virtual environment and we can deploy it as if it was sitting in the closet" Organizations worldwide are transforming the [...]