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Getting to grips with SMB resilience

Andrew Buss is service director at Freeform Dynamics

Andrew Buss looks at using virtualisation to improve business continuity

30 Jan 2012

SMBs lead the way in consumerisation of IT

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Smaller firms across the world more likely to allow employee-owned devices onto the corporate network

25 Jan 2012

Good week/Bad week

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We look at who's riding high and who's feeling low this week

23 Jan 2012

What’s on the VAR horizon in 2012

As 2011 disappears in the rear-view mirror, the channel can expect another year of change in the drive for mobility and efficiency

17 Jan 2012

Closing the SMB security gap

Tony Lock analyses the essential role the channel has to play in helping smaller firms to command their security and data risk landscape

16 Jan 2012

A year of living dangerously

Those who broke out their best guns in the fight for growth in 2011 may still be seeing strong results as we head towards 2012

12 Dec 2011

Field of dreams

Paul Cobley, managing director of Besttel, discusses the benefits and drawbacks of running an ambitious VAR from a field in Cumbria

05 Dec 2011

Osborne expected to unveil £40bn SMB lending scheme

Chancellor to take wraps off credit easing plan in autumn statement tomorrow

28 Nov 2011

Bend but don’t break

John Antunes notes that flexibility can prove key to long-term growth for SMBs during tough economic times

28 Nov 2011

Business heads in the cloud

How do customers really see the future of cloud computing? An Entrepreneurship Week event brought together four business leaders to answer the question. Fleur Doidge reports

28 Nov 2011

Good week/Bad week

We round up who's on a high and who's gone awry over the last seven days

28 Nov 2011

Lift and balance the load

George Zervos weighs up the growing need for server load balancing among SMBs and looks at how it could benefit the channel

18 Nov 2011

What’s in a name?

What is an SME? Is it any different to an SMB? Are employee numbers more important to the definition than turnover? CRN attempts to untangle the web

18 Nov 2011

SMB sales boost at Steljes

Business development focuses on smaller firms

08 Nov 2011

Thinking small

VMware wants partners to push virtualisation to smaller businesses. Caroline Donnelly attended the firm’s European conference, VMworld, in Copenhagen to find out why

04 Nov 2011

A level playing field?

Elliott Caranci-Finch investigates whether or not the odds have been stacked against smaller channel players over Olympics contracts opportunities

03 Oct 2011

Mobilising SMB security improvements

Data sharing need not present a problem, according to Bob Tarzey

03 Oct 2011

Dell does deal on printer offers as market falls

Four initiatives to improve sales of its lasers

13 Sep 2011

Circle of reality

Has the market become disillusioned and cloud moved past its peak?

05 Sep 2011

Make email and internet marketing work for you

Smaller companies often neglect the web in their marketing strategy. Phil McCabe revisits some of the basics

01 Sep 2011

Virtual worlds away in SMB space

Few have yet adopted managed services and virtualised servers in the smaller business market

22 Aug 2011

Tech leaders implore Cameron to overhaul IP laws

Industry heavyweights claim PM's plans to turn Shoreditch into Silicon Roundabout are in jeopardy

04 Jul 2011

Westcon ramps up SMB and services business

Distributor takes the hit on Avaya support charges and hires Dionne Wheeler to lead third-party services sales push

27 Jun 2011

Cisco EasyLease adds five-year deals and partner rebates

Low-rate financing scheme expands scope

02 Jun 2011

SMEs set to be snubbed by banking initiative

FPB claims the billion-pound bank lending scheme will not extend to smaller firms

20 May 2011

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CRN Partner Connect 2012

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CRN's premier networking event is back on 17 May at the Ricoh Arena

Date: Thu 17 May 2012

CRN Fight Night 2012

One of the fights from CRN Fight Night 2010

Channel fighters preparing to square up once more on 24 May

Date: Thu 24 May 2012

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Departing CEO has done Dixons a service

Mark Needham, founder of distributor Widget, argues that John Browett leaves for Apple with Dixons in better shape than when he arrived