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HardwareAcer grabs top spot in EMEA PC market
HP ousted as top dog in EMEA as Acer continues its bid for world domination 15 Oct 2008
Mergers and AcquisitionsEurodata boosts services with Transam
VAR leaps into SAM, SaaS and email archiving markets with acquisition 15 Oct 2008
Salmon tickled pink over Microsoft accolade
Integrator secures Microsoft Gold Partner status in first year of partnership 15 Oct 2008
Listed IT services firms weather the storm
Number of profit warnings in UK software and services sector drop in Q3, despite rise in profit warnings in overall market 15 Oct 2008
Rocom doubles channel credit
Distributor hopes to ease credit crunch bite by offering to double reseller credit lines 15 Oct 2008
Exclusive: Smee gains Appspeed
Cohort managing director Grahame Smee grabs Appspeed to push into virtualisation and storage space 14 Oct 2008
Exclusive: Westcon restructures in UK
Around 25 positions believed to be under threat as distributor trims its cost base 14 Oct 2008
Novell picks up Managed Objects
Software vendor makes second acquisition of the year 15 Oct 2008
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Didata buys Asian wing outright
Cisco Gold partner deepens footprint in 14 Asia-Pacific markets by boosting stake in Singapore-based Datacraft 15 Oct 2008
Asus continues assault on netbook market
PC manufacturer determined to dominate the mini-notebook space with its latest high-end release 15 Oct 2008
Channel M&A set to soar
Research house forecasts surge in bolt-on acquisitions as impact of credit crunch hits home 14 Oct 2008
HDS accelerates mid-market push
Storage vendor tasks Bell and Zycko with taking new midrange storage proposition to resellers 14 Oct 2008
HoundDog barks in the face of recession
Remote monitoring and management vendor reports uptick in business 14 Oct 2008
Comms-care mourns loss of managing director
Staff vow to continue business as usual in memory of Scott Yates who passed away at the weekend 13 Oct 2008
UK business failures hold firm
Despite the credit crunch, the number of UK firms hitting the wall increased just 3.2 per cent between Q1 and Q3 13 Oct 2008
Infosys abandons Axon bid
Bad tidyings for outsourcing sector as Infosys pulls out of bid for UK firm and slashes growth forecasts 13 Oct 2008
Swiss LAR raids Bytes for UK push
Microsoft LAR heads for UK market with boosted sales staff 13 Oct 2008
Net-Ctrl sees school success with Ruckus
VAR wins Ruckus wireless LAN deal with school that originally rejected Aruba and BlueSocket on price 13 Oct 2008
CompTIA chief hints at strategy shake-up
Chief executive set to review entire organisation as it looks to raise its profile 13 Oct 2008
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CommentBargain prices mean bargain-bin services
Network services are doing well despite the downturn, according to Peter Titmus 15 Oct 2008
CommentHosting IP telephony
IP telephony as a service can suit resellers serving smaller businesses, claims James Bushell 09 Oct 2008
Paying the piper
Resellers should aim to boost the liquidity of managed services, argues Nick Claxson 09 Oct 2008
Off site and out of mind?
The data loss issue is not going to go away, says Juergen Obermann 10 Oct 2008
Software licensing simplified
Organisations cannot afford to ignore software asset management, says Matt Fisher 09 Oct 2008
No winners without votes
The deadline is approaching to get votes in for this year’s awards 09 Oct 2008
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Availability through a migration
Zero-downtime migration can prevent system failures, Steve Roy points out 08 Oct 2008
Super models attract customers
A year of change means unexpected sales opportunities, according to Andrew de Rozairo 07 Oct 2008
The six billion-dollar Games
The six billion-dollar GamesSmall and mid-size UK players are getting in line to make the next Olympics larger than ever, writes Fleur Doidge 02 Oct 2008
IT may have saved Amtrak
Timely solution provision may have saved the recently collapsed courier, says the firm’s former CIO Phil Young 02 Oct 2008
Making margins from legal search
Vince Blackall argues that margins can be made by those who can sell on data management solutions 09 Oct 2008
Identify to comply
Strategies can ensure good control through identity management 09 Oct 2008
CRN TV
Vendor Q&A Session: Rick Wallis, NEC Computers
During this Q&A session Rick Wallis, UK Sales Director at NEC Computers, talks about the firm’s reasons for committing to a 100 per cent channel strategy
In The Studio with CRN: Dave Poskett, HP
CRN TV catches up with Dave Poskett, director of Solutions Partner Organisation for the UK & Ireland at HP
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CRN Channel Awards 2008
The Channel Awards recognise excellence and exceptional performance from businesses and individuals in the UK technology channel
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The editor's diary
Channel news and views from Sara Yirrell, editor of CRN
Time Crisis
15 Oct 2008I just wanted to apologise for the lack of posts recently - October is a horrendously busy month for CRN and my...
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Read the book, got the T-shirt
19 Aug 2008Informer was amused to find a brilliant tome landing on its desk the other day entitled - Distribution Channels - Understanding and...
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