The Reddit Recap – Microsoft partners rejoice, Azure Lighthouse, outgoing vendor challenges

Microsoft partners rejoice, and maintaining confidence in your solution even when an outgoing MSP gives you a hard time.

Microsoft partners rejoice, and maintaining confidence in your solution even when an outgoing MSP gives you a hard time.

As IBM closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat Tuesday, questions continued to swirl around the impact the move will have on partners and clients, which even IBM’s Arvind Krishna acknowledged was the “real challenge” ever since the deal was announced last October.

Upset over Microsoft Partner Network changes, and late-night emergency calls are some of the top posts on the MSP subreddit this week.

It takes a long time for a large company like IBM to pass on quality leads to its partners. Lori Cohen used to get one per month, but with the help of IBM’s new AI-buddy SCORE, that number is now eight.