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Now you Cius, now you don't as Cisco cans tablet device

Cisco Cius

Vendor drops computing platform after less than a year on the market

25 May 2012

The cult of the CEO

Man with his feet up on a desk

As the industry's first wave of great leaders slowly disappears from view, we examine how much difference the men at the top make, and what channel bosses can learn from them

11 May 2012

Cisco House opens beside Olympic Park

Partners may also be guests at new business transformation showcase

10 May 2012

Large firms slam wallets shut in Cisco’s Q3

Networking giant’s “solid” quarter marred by drop in enterprise sales

10 May 2012

CA competencies added to Cisco cloud builder programme

Cisco partners recognised for cloud environment developer skills

04 May 2012

Throwing down the gauntlet

Cisco's recent Partner Summit in San Diego revealed a vendor that is primed and ready to come out fighting. Its rivals had better watch their backs, warns Sam Trendall

01 May 2012

Cisco tells Axonex to bring its own

VAR is one of four globally selected to take part in BYOD pilot

01 May 2012

San Di-Dave-Go

The Dodgi boss reluctantly swaps Dagenham for SoCal for a week to give you the lowdown on the recent Cisco partner shindig

27 Apr 2012

Cisco offers training and incentive tempters to fuel VAR sales

Rebates for switches, deployment funds for UC and training for VXI in final set of channel-pleasers at partner summit

26 Apr 2012

Enterasys slams “costly and complex” BYOD projects

Networking vendor claims its new purpose-built Mobile IAM solution is a no-brainer for resellers looking to crack BYOD market

25 Apr 2012

Fortinet tightens grip on $1bn UTM market

Cisco and Juniper the only contenders to miss out on double-digit growth

23 Apr 2012

Cisco brass: Smaller VARs to feel operational benefits soon

Vendor to smarten up distribution pricing process as it claims ease-of-doing-business drive will help VARs big and small

19 Apr 2012

Olympic kayaker professes love for CRN

Tim Brabants MBE grabs copy of his favourite channel rag as he pays visit to our offices

19 Apr 2012

Distributors to be invited to Cisco's cloud party

Networking giant to formalise cloud services engagement with distributors in programme launch this summer

19 Apr 2012

Cisco talks up Jabber channel opportunity

Vendor and partners look to hit back at Microsoft Lync with licence-free UC application

19 Apr 2012

Chambers: Cisco pulling away from 'good-enough' rivals

Vendor's boss in bullish mood during opening keynote of partner shindig

17 Apr 2012

Cisco revamps services and mid-market VAR schemes

Vendor unifies 47 services channel programmes while unveiling mid-market scheme on first day of partner conference in San Diego

17 Apr 2012

Equanet opens Bury innovation centre

Multi-vendor reseller demo facility launched to boost business custom

17 Apr 2012

Un-unified communications

Unified communications adoption is being held back by vendors’ failure to make their systems work together. But could the channel benefit from this trend, asks Doug Woodburn

13 Apr 2012

Logicalis becomes first in UK to bag FlexPod datacentre badge

Integrator accredited for Cisco and NetApp kit across sales, design, architecture and implementation

12 Apr 2012

Chambers: Huawei does not always play by the rules

Cisco boss tells WSJ that Chinese player is his "toughest competitor" but hints at IP and security issues

10 Apr 2012

VCE allies launch co-branded training

Cisco, EMC and VMware deepen partnership with joint education push

03 Apr 2012

Cisco extends BIG award deadline

Networking giant calls all UK entrepreneurs to enter its innovation awards and win piles of cash

29 Mar 2012

Resellers to grow fat off UC interoperability delta

Lack of progress among vendors means resellers will be needed to tie the systems together, Gartner analyst argues

28 Mar 2012

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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