You might have heard news of the ransomware attack last week named WannaCrypt, WannaCry, WannaCryptor, or Wcry, that affected millions of users in more than 100,000 organisations, across 150 countries around the world – and counting. As one of the largest ransomware offensives in history, this attack highlights the critical need for businesses to protect…
We all know someone with a cluttered desktop I was at a cafe with my colleague recently, prepaing and sorting out some documents to present at a partner meeting that followed and observed that his desktop was filled with PDF, Word and PowerPoint files. I reminded him that he could access the files from the cloud by…
Microsoft CSP is a licensing model and program first announced at WPC 2014 as an evolution of the Syndication program. Microsoft CSP is designed so that partners can own the full scale management of the customer life cycle. Unlike the Microsoft Open program, CSP is optimised for the reselling of Microsoft online services. CSP customers…
After months of preparation, rhipe has finally announced our partnership with DocuSign, the pioneer and global standard for Digital Transaction Management (DTM) and eSignatures. A lot of effort has put in by both parties behind the scene to make this happen. Different teams – Program Operations, Support, Marketing, Sales, Sales Enablement etc. from both companies…
rhipe heads to the Citrix Summit 2017 I had the pleasure of attending Citrix Summit in January and short of cloning myself, I couldn’t have been across all the announcements, in fact I wonder how it stacks up with previous events because there seems to be so much to write about. One thing is clear,…
Microsoft is ending the Syndication program, with June 30th being the date set for the end of the Syndication program. Office 365 Syndication partners around the world are now actively migrating customers into CSP and onto the standard Office 365 platform. This enables partners to quickly and easily take ownership of their customers' entire cloud…
Sometimes it can be quite hard to keep track of the agreements and portals you need to access different resources in Microsoft. You have MPN as the main portal for information, Partner Admin Center and Partner Center for customer management, and if you are a Microsoft partner looking at reselling Dynamics software such as Dynamics…
We get a lot of questions about how to accurately estimate Azure workloads (Virtual Machines, Storage, Networking, etc.) and a constant sticking point are the Storage Transactions aka Data Access Fees for Virtual Machines in Azure. Today, I'm going to run through some numbers relating to just the Storage Transactions related to Azure Virtual Machines…
What are Microsoft subcontractors? Microsoft and its affiliates operate the services offered under the Data Processing Terms (DPT) section of the Microsoft Online Services Terms (OST). Microsoft may hire other companies to provide limited services on its behalf. Any such subcontractors will be permitted to obtain Customer Data only to deliver the services Microsoft has…
One of the most popular Office 365 plans that many partners are selling is Exchange Online Plan 1. For just US$4/AU$5.60 per user per month, customers get 50GB of secure and reliable business-class mailbox, web-based access and outlook client on mobile devices, anti-malware, anti-spam protection etc. The best part is that partners and customers…
