By: Marco Limena, vice president, business channels, Operator Channels, Microsoft This is one of my favorite times of year, because in late-March at Microsoft we get the opportunity to bring over 400 of our hosting provider partners to Bellevue for the annual Microsoft Global Hosting Summit . Hosting...

If it’s not clear by now that cloud computing is much more than the latest technology trend, consider two conclusions from a recent IDC report : Cloud computing will create nearly 14 million new jobs between 2011 and 2015. By 2015, business revenues from IT innovation enabled...

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Another Hosting Summit has come and gone, leaving us with the fond memories of slow motion magic tricks, jam sessions, cloud ninjas, and of course plenty of talk of servers, infrastructure and applications, and new business opportunities created by the broader business adoption of cloud. This was our...

This week brings me to Germany for WorldHostingDays, the world's largest hosting event – it’s not every day one gets to do business in a theme park, so I’m looking forward to a successful and fun event meeting Microsoft’s invaluable hosting and service provider community. ...

I wanted to flag a couple pieces of coverage today resulting from Bob Muglia’s keynote at TechEd, where he talked about hosting partners as an important piece of Microsoft’s cloud strategy. “Microsoft sees hosting partners becoming more important as the cloud becomes more predominant...