Microsoft is upping the enrollment requirements – along with the costs – for Tier 1 or “Direct” Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs), partners that sell Microsoft cloud solutions to customers directly. [...]

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 [...]

In this article, we break down what the QMTH is and what you should consider before signing your addendum. How do I grasp QMTH in the simplest terms possible for [...]

The title seems obvious, if you are an entrepreneur, you should always be thinking about what’s next.  I read/follow Richard Branson, who wrote an article recently on focusing on the [...]

Microsoft is betting big on what they define as "hybrid cloud" and that's where they see service providers (SPLA) playing a significant part. Hybrid cloud is not just offloading workloads [...]

The year 2017 has brought on A LOT of change for the hosting community.  A hosting company used to be an organization that hosted Exchange - fast forward to today [...]

The CSP Indirect program is a quick and relatively painless way to get started with Office 365 and other cloud solutions.  In this article, we will review how it works, [...]