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6 New Microsoft Product Previews Launching In April Microsoft is debuting a range of product previews in April including new capabilities for Teams, Dynamics 365, Azure Active Directory and Viva. By Wade Tyler Millward April 01, 2021, 04:24 PM EDT New Microsoft Product Previews Microsoft is unveiling a slew of previews for new products and features this month that channel partners should know about. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant’s April releases include...

Google Expects To Start Welcoming Back U.S. Workers In April Switching back to in-office work will remain voluntary until September for all Googlers who are non-essential employees whose in-person presence isn’t required. By Donna Goodison March 31, 2021, 05:55 PM EDT Google expects to start welcoming back employees to some of its U.S. offices on a voluntary basis in the next month, the company said Wednesday. U.S. offices will begin to reopen in a limited ca...

Atos Stock Plummets After U.S. Accounting Errors Disclosed ‘Atos is committed to the highest standards, and the group is strongly enhancing its preventive controls and processes through a comprehensive action plan,’ Atos says in a statement. By Donna Goodison April 01, 2021, 01:51 PM EDT French solution provider Atos took a big stock hit today after disclosing that auditors discovered accounting errors at two of its U.S. subsidiaries. Shares of the Bezons, ...

Informatica Offers Partners Faster Development Capabilities, Advanced Training At its Elevate partner conference this week the big data company also will debut a new consumption-based pricing model to help partners speed customers’ cloud migration projects. By Rick Whiting March 16, 2021, 09:31 AM EDT Informatica is launching several partner-focused initiatives that the cloud data management software developer says will help partners – especially systems in...

Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage ‘We understand how incredibly impactful and unacceptable this is and apologize deeply,’ Microsoft says in a post-incident review report on the outage. By Donna Goodison, Steven Burke March 16, 2021, 12:34 PM EDT Microsoft on Tuesday apologized for a worldwide outage that impacted Azure cloud services including Microsoft Teams, Office 365 and Dynamics 365. “We understand how incredibly imp...

Microsoft Grows Prototyping Capabilities With Acquisition Of The Marsden Group The acquisition should help improve Microsoft’s offerings to asset-intensive industries like manufacturing, automotive and logistics, Microsoft said. By Wade Tyler Millward March 16, 2021, 01:32 PM EDT Microsoft continues to invest in solutions aimed at industrial customers with the purchase of The Marsden Group, which provides rapid prototyping services. The acquisition should he...

Druva’s New Channel Chief Aims To Add As-A-Service Partners: Exclusive ‘We are a channel-centric company. We want to push 100 percent of our opportunities through our resale routes,’ Druva’s Robert Brower tells CRNtv. By Jennifer Zarate March 15, 2021, 09:59 AM EDT Recognized as one of CRN’s 20 coolest identity management and data protection companies of 2021 on the Security 100 list, Druva’s newly appointed senior vice president of worldwide partne...

News, Analysis and Perspective for Solution Providers and Technology Integrators D&H Distributing’s Dan Schwab On Cloud Growth, New Services And The Rise In Competition From Private Equity ‘It seems like in a lot of ways we are the last man standing. We know private equity’s model is to dramatically cut costs, and then in five to seven years … sell it, take it public, what have you. We just have a very different philosophy,’ says D&H Co-president Dan Schwab. By ...

Microsoft Teams Updates Add ‘Sorely Missing’ Features: Partners Updates such as enhanced webinar functionality and moderator controls, along with a number of integrations with other Microsoft products, should increase the usefulness of Teams for customers--ultimately helping to fuel services opportunities, solution providers told CRN. By Wade Tyler Millward March 11, 2021, 04:29 PM EST Solution providers applauded the latest updates announced for the Micros...

ServiceNow Quebec release of its Now Platform offers new App Engine Studio for workflow development and AI and process automation capabilities.