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Microsoft Premier Support Resellers (LSP/LAR/VAR) Ask for Resale Option – US Cloud Delivers
US Cloud today announced a new channel program for Microsoft Premier Support Resellers - LSPs, LARs and VARs looking to reduce costs for clients. The new program will allow third parties to add US Cloud’s Premier Support to their solution sets as they look for an alternative to Microsoft’s increasingly expensive Premier (Unified) support options. [...]
Enterprise Monitoring Series: Part 1 – Setting up for Network Success
Industry estimates put the cost to companies of IT downtime at over $5,000 per minute, on average. The infamous AWS “typo” outage alone reportedly cost companies in the S&P 500 index an estimated $150 million. And with over 48% of IT organizations reporting one outage in the last three years, it’s clear that modern environments have become too [...]
Microsoft Premier (Unified) Support Questions
As Microsoft converts its Premier Support customers to Unified Support, more and more people are exploring other options and switching to US Cloud Premier Support - a Microsoft Unified Support alternative. Here are 12 common questions answered about it: Are Premier Support health checks or RAPs done remotely, or on site? We [...]
Office 365 Premier Support Cost – Optimize IT Costs in 2019
Office 365 Premier Support costs are an opportunity for your enterprise to optimize IT costs and reduce overall business costs in 2019. Let’s look at the top challenges of an enterprise IT cost optimization program, what Office 365 Premier support looks like and how you can optimize Office 365 Premier Support costs or the new [...]
Azure Premier Support Cost – Optimize to Reduce Business Cost
Azure Premier Support costs are an opportunity for your enterprise to optimize IT costs and reduce overall business costs. Let’s look at the top challenges of an enterprise IT cost optimization program, what Azure Premier support looks like and how you can optimize Azure Premier Support costs or the new Azure Rapid Response Support as [...]
Microsoft Premier (Unified) Renewals: End-of-Year Tips
As the calendar year winds down, many companies are entering their annual renewal dance with Microsoft, working to get budgets set for 2019. But more and more companies are struggling with the clock winding down, with Microsoft negotiations getting delayed multiple times. And this year, that is critical because new Premier / Unified Support price [...]
Three Cloud Computing Developments in 2018 You Should be Thankful for…
It is that time of year again when we pause and give thanks. As we prepare to break bread around our annual Thanksgiving dinner tables, we ponder the blessings of the past year. And given our inherent nerdiness, our thankful thoughts turn to technology and, more specifically, the cloud. We plucked out three developments in [...]
Microsoft Professional Support Alternative
Many Microsoft technology based organizations are not aware of a Microsoft Professional Support alternative at US Cloud. The Problem: Small and midsized businesses – which make up more than 90% of all businesses worldwide – are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to Microsoft support. Many organizations are ditching the delay [...]
Unified Support for Microsoft CSP’s? You Need a Plan B
By the end of this year, over half of IT spending will be cloud-based, reaching up to 60% of entire IT infra, and 60-70% of all applications, technology, and services spending by 2020.* Look no farther than Microsoft’s explosive growth in cloud with its Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) revenue up 234 percent (that’s not a [...]
Microsoft EA License Costs Increasing Oct 1
A new fiscal year for Microsoft, a new range of price increases for its products. Shortly after its new fiscal year kicked off in July, Microsoft announced pricing and programmatic discount changes that will go into effect on October 1, 2018. This is in addition to the 30 percent price increase for Microsoft Unified Support, [...]
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