Microsoft Prepares Dynamics CRM, AX Partners for Cloud Solution Provider

NEW YORK-(Business Wire)-The Cloud Technology Alliance, an organization of the top independent software vendors in the cloud office space, today released its 2015 Partnering in the Cloud Survey, which finds major differences in the way Microsoft and Google channel partners bring cloud services to their customers.

“Google Apps partners on average work with [fewer] than five vendors and solution providers while Microsoft partners typically work with six to 10 vendors”, he said.

One of Odin’s Australian partners, OzHosting.com, is already on-board with the program.

He added: “Although the mobile-first, cloud-first era is still in its infancy, now is the time for partners to craft services and solutions to ease their customers’ migration concerns while driving immediate business agility and CAPEX savings”.

In a blog post, Phil Sorgen, Corporate VP of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group, mentions that the expanded CSP program is part of Microsoft’s increasingly efforts to make the transition to the cloud more seamless for companies, and allow partners continue to build and grow profitable cloud services businesses based on Microsoft Cloud. The Odin Service Automation platform has enabled us to deliver on this mantra.

One of the bigger barriers to cloud adoption is SharePoint; the collaboration tool is important to companies, but predominantly not in the cloud, with 72% admitting they use it either on premise or hybrid.

It claimed in the past year, availability of this direct access offering has expanded to 16 markets, and Equinix has facilitated hundreds of connections to Azure via Platform Equinix, specifically Equinix Cloud Exchange. Deep expertise in technology solutions, mobility, cloud, and supply chain solutions enables its business partners to operate efficiently and successfully in the markets they serve.

Get ready, line of business purchaser of technology, because Microsoft Corp. and its reseller partners are coming for you, and the budget you control. Cloudyn’s support provided companies that adopted Azure or have plans to do so with a way to monitor, compare and right-size all of their cloud deployments and assets from a single pane of glass.

The Ingram Micro Service Desk offers a 24/7 multilingual team that provides level 1 support for front office, desktop and many IT-related issues via phone, chat and email.

Customers can purchase Azure infrastructure and support (including architectural and on-boarding guidance) as a bundle from Rackspace.

Founded in 2011, Cloudyn is the leading cloud monitoring, analytics and optimization solution for multi-cloud deployments.

Meanwhile the distributor is also offering a loyalty programme, Cloud Elevate, with rewards and enablement services including promotions, discounts, education and sales and marketing support to help resellers accelerate their cloud profitability.

This offering is available for United States customers for now but will expand to worldwide customers, including A/NZ, through early 2016.