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Consumerisation is unstoppable

Layer 7's Matt McLarty

Businesses must build mobile apps in the wake of the BYOD trend, says Matt McLarty

26 Apr 2012

Curb your enthusiasm

Owen Cole is EMEA vice president at ExtraHop Networks

Owen Cole, a keen horse rider, finds the best medicine for the blues is classic comedy from the film and television worlds

13 Apr 2012

History boy

Layer 7 Technologies' Scott Morrison

K Scott Morrison left the Middle Ages behind to make his own PC

23 May 2011

Office workers cause data protection problems for employers

"Bring-your-own" trend leaving firms open to compliance issues, claims research

17 Dec 2010

SonicWall justifies jump in product prices

Five-per-cent price hike kicks in tomorrow but partners appear unfazed

30 Sep 2010

Apple grows nicely in Q2

2010 stays sweet for Apple despite a slight drop in iPod sales

21 Apr 2010

Government urged to can VAT on IT repairs

Government is barking up the wrong tree with its current green IT strategy, according to Comtek

22 Mar 2010

Buying Solutions winners unveiled

Dell among the firms that did not make the grade for £6bn framework, according to leaked list

11 Feb 2010

Dell farms out EMEA hardware production

Contract manufacturer Foxconn to assume control of Dell’s Polish PC, server and storage manufacturing operations

02 Dec 2009

XTM as the next wave in multi-functional security

New appliance category offers opportunities in larger organisations, says Ian Kilpatrick

18 Nov 2009

Data security compliance and reporting gets ahead

Where might customers still spend on security, asks Nick Lowe

19 Oct 2009

PC-Ware changes direction

Microsoft LAR ditches hardware to focus on core competencies

15 Oct 2009

SonicWall opens Chertsey technical support centre

EMEA support centre for partners added to India and Arizona centres

02 Sep 2009

Virtual networking and removing complexity

Should 21st century applications remain on 20th century networks, asks Roger Hockaday

06 Aug 2009

Mini-notebooks save PC market from disaster

Gloomy Q2 figures from Gartner show a continued decline in Western European PC shipments, but netbooks are holding their own

06 Aug 2009

Anti-spam services must avoid creating yet more spam

Non-delivery reports and error emails add to the bandwidth burden, says Ken Bagnall

04 Aug 2009

Rethinking the branch office

Streamlining WAN traffic requires a multi-pronged approach, notes Nigel Hawthorn

16 Apr 2009

Security through the squeeze

Wouldn’t it be great if you could know in advance which products potential customers wanted? Nick Lowe comments.

11 Sep 2008

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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


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Lessons learned

I've discovered that iPads are great for consuming, not so good for creating

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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