New Mailscape version improves reporting on Office 365 and Exchange on-prem

The Mailscape develpment team work on four key product principles :

• Help customers cut the mean time to resolution (MTTR) for Office365 and Exchange problems
• Provide actionable insights, not just collections of data—we need to process and display the monitoring and reporting data we collect, and filter and prioritize it so that…
• Trim the troubleshooting tree to eliminate wasted time (such as RDPing into a server and looking at its event log as a first step)
• Accelerate migrations both to the cloud and between on-prem systems. We do this not by providing tools to migrate data but by applying #1 and #2 to migration operations.

Microsoft's cloud business is expecting to be a $4.5 billion business.  But a Business Insider article suggests this $4.5 billion number isn't as straightforward as it would seem.

One source says "What Microsoft is doing is claiming a certain percentage of their Enterprise Agreements — these are renewals of their big licensing agreements — as cloud revenue. They bundle the rights to use Azure or Office 365 as part of their overall agreement. The  secret is that very few customers are actually taking Microsoft up on using Azure in any meaningful way."

So, when an enterprise signs a new contract to buy software such as Windows, SQL and Microsoft Office, the salesperson may include for free (or almost free) access to Microsoft's cloud