Business news, analysis, comment and reviews for resellers and VARs in the UK computer channel

CRN Sales and Marketing Awards

CRN Sales and Marketing Awards 2012 logo

Date: 21 Jun 2012

Brand new event launched to celebrate individual and team performance within the channel

CRN Business Club 2012: Second meeting

CRN Business Club logo

Date: 05 Jul 2012

Join us on 5 July for our second meeting at Home House in central London

Next live event
Cloud Computing Security

CRN Cloud Forum 2012

Date: 14 Jun 2012

Join us at our cloud event on Thursday 14 June at Le Meridien, Piccadilly

Treasure Island

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Unlike most other western countries, the UK’s software piracy rate has not improved at all since 2007. Doug Woodburn finds out why the BSA is calling for a tougher deterrent

Analysing all the ingredients

Man on ladder draws diagrams on a wall

Fleur Doidge investigates where resellers should be looking for sales around business analytics

The art and the arena

Visitors registering for Partner Connect 2012 at Ricoh Arena

Some Partner Connect attendees and exhibitors this year were more creative in their approach than others. Fleur Doidge reviews the show

Should vendors hold more virtual partner conferences?

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Alan Giles is EMEA managing director of Fiberlink

Alan Giles

Fiberlink

Actually, it may have been a bit weird even in the late 1970s...

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Cloud computing

CRN Q&A: Stephen Ennis, Avnet

Is there a clear role for the channel in cloud computing? And where does distribution fit in?

The CRN Top VARs roundtable in the studio

CRN Top VARs: The future of the reseller

CRN chats to four differing VARs and a distie about recession, collaboration, cloud and protecting margins



The Editors dairy blog

The editor's diary

Fight Night 2012 was more than alright

Fuzzy heads all round as that post Fight Night feeling sets in

Dave the dealer blog

Dave the dealer

Life's a beach

With a triumvirate of VARs getting into sporting sponsorship, Dave runs the rule over the brand-building opportunities

View from the channel

Views from the Channel

Why Apple wants bigger bite of channel

Latest distribution sell-through figures indicate a softening in Apple's stance towards the channel, says CRN deputy editor Doug Woodburn

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BYOD: balancing IT risk and productivity

Organisations must strike a balance between worker productivity and the security of social media/mobile devices

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Smart working in the 21st century

Overcoming technological limitations and traditional office cultures to free employees to do more with less from wherever they want to