Microsoft: ‘Use The Cloud To Sell The Cloud’
November 28, 2012
Grazed from CRN. Author: Rick Whiting.
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) has added 14,000 channel partners to its Cloud Essentials initiative in the past week since making it easier for solution providers to enroll in the cloud computing starter program.
The Cloud Essentials enrollment effort is one of a number of changes Microsoft has made to its Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) programs in recent days. The Redmond, Wash., company also has created several new "competencies," or technology areas in which partners can become certified, and consolidated others. The changes, some of which were previewed at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto in July, come as the MPN re-enrollment season begins for Microsoft partners…
Solution providers either re-enrolling in MPN or joining for the first time can now sign up for Cloud Essentials with a single click, said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president and head of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group, in an interview…
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