Angus Fox: Microsoft Strategist for Microsoft Partners Applicable and Multizone in the U.K. Today was all about the value of the Microsoft Partner Network and Microsoft's competitive strategy. It is always illuminating to listen to Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, talk about the competition. It’s something that you can gain a lot of insight from if you listen attentively, as I do. What did I determine was important today? Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) Jon Roskill talked about evolution with a steady, consistent cadence. He discussed a $5.8 billion investment in partners, and how changes announced in July will go live in October. This is welcome. We all need to plan our businesses, and sudden changes are painful and often expensive. He left the door open for change... Read More
July 12, 2011
Angus Fox again—Microsoft Strategist for Microsoft Partners Applicable and Multizone in the U.K.—with a community point of view on the Day 2 keynotes at WPC 2011. These were keynotes with a high information density, so let’s look at the details. I've tried to provide actions you could take TODAY at WPC to get clarity on what has been said. Public and Partner Cloud Servers The Server and Tools division mission is to lead the transition to the cloud for every business, starting with the most widely deployed server OS. In 2011, Microsoft believe that virtual servers will overtake physical for new server shipments—10.9 million virtuals. I believe that. We know this from our work consolidating physical data center platforms for telecoms at Applicable. The message here seemed to me that infras... Read More
July 11, 2011
Hi, this is Angus Fox—Microsoft Strategist for Microsoft Partners Applicable and Multizone in the UK. I have been coming to WPC since before it was called WPC, and have been a top ten twitterer here two years running. The Microsoft Partner Network asked me to write a blog for community insight from a partner-to-partner point of view immediately after the keynotes, so I decided to take a leaf out of Bing's book and try to write something you can use to 'decide and take action'. I watched the Vision keynote online from the UK this year for the first time and was glued to it. Lots comes out of WPC about where Microsoft is headed, and it is vital that you as a Microsoft partner understand the announcements, make sense of them for your own business and geography, and create an action plan for Read More
MPN Live
At 1pm Pacific Standard Time / 9pm UK time daily Applicable took part in a roundtable Live Stream Talk Show Web Series remotely over Skype with the MPN Booth in the Solution Innovation Center.
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Mondays Guests included Microsoft partners and industry analysts, with Applicable's @nuxnix participating via Skype with @maryjofoley @rwang0 @drsalonen @cheeky_geeky @techassoc. Key themes were around the partner opportunity for the present and the future, and the meaning of the transition to the cloud for partners, especially the new cloud partners versus the migration and infrastructure partners.
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