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It’s all in the performance

Quocirca's Bob Tarzey

Bob Tarzey says application performance management tools and services are an untapped opportunity and their time is ripe

21 May 2012

Virtualise the application delivery controller

Bolt-on applications can help boost product sales

Sales go mobile in the channel as businesses turn to tablets

Mehryar Hamid is an IT account executive at GfK

It has been a positive first quarter for B2B sales despite the double dip, says Mehryar Hamid

11 May 2012

GfK: Buying tech offline still has appeal

Eastern promise for UK PC market in Q1

Strike while Hadoop analytics apps are hot

Entry to a Databarracks secure server room

Analytics software tipped to snowball answers to big-data business questions

08 May 2012

Quality over quantity

Big data or relevant data?

Innovating an intelligent infrastructure

Giridhar Lakkavalli looks at IaaS and how it needs to develop

01 May 2012

Software downloads not mere licence transfer

EU legal view is that a sale has taken place whether via internet or on physical media

24 Apr 2012

Cloud sales and partnering

Mark Herbert goes over the processes for selling cloud

24 Apr 2012

Looking through the Windows

The latest triumvirate of OSes from Microsoft is a fine channel proposition, according to Stuart Cordingley

23 Apr 2012

Make a stand this May

Road warriors from the UK channel will in one month be loading up their boldest banners and best kit to meet friend and foe alike at Partner Connect. Fleur Doidge looks at the latest line-up

13 Apr 2012

Oracle standardises price in government mega-deal

Cabinet Office inks deal designed to save £25m a year and calls time on "inflexible contracts" for differing departments

28 Mar 2012

Plane crazy

Dave hears of a Czech flyboy with a canny way of promoting his vendor partners

28 Mar 2012

Microsoft plies OEM partners with shiny new tools

System builders handed new support and installation freebies

22 Mar 2012

SSD and business continuity

Ian Masters says SSD should be considered when addressing customer business continuity

21 Mar 2012

HP flexes muscles at UK Gold Partner Forum

New schemes in hardware, software and services as vendor calls on VARs to help plug skills gap and drive economic growth

14 Mar 2012

Outsourcing delivers for fast-growing Civica in FY11

Civica UK Ltd sees top line expand to almost £100m with big revenue and profit growth, while group-wide sales of both product and services enjoy healthy spike

07 Mar 2012

Windows Azure outage hits CloudStore

Ongoing availability problems with cloud platform's service management and compute platforms forces G-Cloud and others offline

29 Feb 2012

Ex-Salford boss Doggart pops up at Cloud Technology Solutions

Former leader of university-owned reseller appointed chief executive of Google partner

29 Feb 2012

Taking Google to the next level

As it talks up top enterprise customers and a far more rigorous channel operation, we ask the vendor, its partners and rivals where it goes from here

28 Feb 2012

SAP takes a special interest in VARs

The vendor’s UK and worldwide partner bosses discuss how they plan to give more rewards to specialist VARs and those that drive new business in 2012

24 Feb 2012

Lynch urges HP partners to spearhead IT 'revolution'

Autonomy founder claims HP's channel is uniquely placed to profit as emphasis shifts from data to meaning

21 Feb 2012

Moving beyond device-centric computing

Tony Lock looks at future-proofing access to workspace services with user virtualisation

20 Feb 2012

Baby one more time

In her younger days, Christine Gebauer was a fearless tree climber, skateboarder, and Britney Spears impersonator

20 Feb 2012

Cisco CTO: Software is becoming a core competency for us

Padmasree Warrior talks up vendor's software, server and switching skills in opening speech at Cisco Live event

31 Jan 2012

SaaS customisation is not dead

Rajesh Ranjan looks at where to draw the line between configuration and customisation in SaaS

17 Jan 2012

Avnet and Northamber lose Microsoft OEM rights

Microsoft moves from eight to six OEM distributors in the UK following review process

06 Jan 2012

SBL posts stellar FY11 numbers

The artist formerly known as Software Box enjoys big sales and profit hikes

05 Jan 2012

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The first in an exciting series of events delving into vertical markets. This event digs deeper into issues around the healthcare supply chain

Date: Thu 24 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

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Colour printing: why the bill keeps outstripping the budget

The wrong printers, for the wrong tasks on the wrong contracts

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Magic quadrant for business intelligence platforms

Who leads the BI pack and who should we be watching out for?


The Editors dairy blog

The editor's diary

Facebook floats at last

But it was all about the hoodie

Dave the dealer blog

Dave the dealer

Plumbing the depths

Dave brings you all the behind-the-scenes fighting talk as the entire channel gets in an angry mood this week

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