$32 billion! That was the whopping amount of revenue revealed by CEO Satya Nadella and Amy Hood – Chief Financial Officer at Microsoft, in the Q2 earnings report 2018. There was a 12% increase from the previous year. The commercial cloud revenue also increased to 48% year over year to $9 billion. It is an amazing fact that 95% of Microsoft commercial revenue directly flows … [Read more...]
Am I in the right business of selling cloud?
‘Am I in the right business of selling cloud?’ If you are asking this and in an uncertainty phase right now, believe us, time is now and only you can make it happen – opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. You, being a service provider selling cloud, are already prepared – better than anyone else, to leverage the exploding cloud opportunity. The only … [Read more...]
How can Microsoft CSP partners maximize their profits by selling new CSP offerings?
Over the last few years, the way customers purchase technology solutions has rapidly evolved. Today, they have several distractions like emails and content, as well as social media to divert them towards required solutions. In such a scenario, Microsoft partners need to rethink about their businesses. Of course, there are plenty of new opportunities as well, like Microsoft … [Read more...]
How can service providers make profit by selling cloud back-up services?
"It's always better to prepare for an unlikely event than be caught unaware." Business technology resiliency is the highest priority of organizations in today’s world of 24x7 business requirements. No company can afford downtime. But still protecting and recovering virtual environments continue to be a big challenge for IT … [Read more...]
My Microsoft Inspire 2018 Experience
Microsoft Inspire, is world's largest congregation of Microsoft Partners. Period. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft mentioned that more than 97% of Microsoft revenue comes from its partner ecosystem, 17M+ people are directly employed by this community and there are more than 365,000 partners in total. Those are staggering numbers. Microsoft has the world's largest partner … [Read more...]