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Distree 2012: Channel needs to get in shape

The harbour in Monte Carlo

Analysts warn resellers must step up their efforts to deal with the challenges of increasingly diverse customer requirements

09 Feb 2012

For whom the bell tolls

Grey clouds

Conditions will remain tough next year, but there will be many opportunities too. Fleur Doidge reports on IDC’s global 2012 predictions summary

23 Dec 2011

Drama and scandal: The hottest stories of 2011

IDC: 2010 saw tech investment rebound

Three billion pages printed daily in EMEA

A view of the moon

Paperless offices still a long way off as regional page volumes could stretch to the moon and back each day

21 Dec 2011

Global IT spend saved by mobile device uptake

IDC's latest State of the Market research reveals smartphones and tablets are propping up the market, but Western Europe is seeing a bigger slowdown than expected

02 Nov 2011

Double-digit drop for apathetic European PC market

Channels loath to stock up and consumers more interested in mobile devices, says IDC

20 Oct 2011

IDC: 2010 saw tech investment rebound

But analyst warns rocky road lies ahead with soaring inflation and fiscal consolidation

12 Oct 2011

UC market set to weather economic storm in UK

IDC study predicts impressive annual growth for collaboration solutions and hosted services

20 Sep 2011

Android loses sight of runaway Apple in Q2 tablet race

Monster demand for the iPad 2 helps market leader consolidate as Google operating systems sheds share to RIM

14 Sep 2011

Mobility security market set for takeoff

IDC pegs western European CAGR at 30 per cent as cloud and IT consumerisation drive spending

12 Aug 2011

Nokia surrenders 20-point lead in smartphone market

Beleaguered Finnish firm haemorrhages sales and market share as Apple turns the screw

05 Aug 2011

AMD gains on Intel during wobbly Q2 for chip market

Challenger lands a blow on market's alpha male as microprocessor space suffers decline

03 Aug 2011

Tablet market disappoints in Q1

IDC figures reveal mobile devices lag behind the hype for the first time

11 Jul 2011

Xerox opens up API access for managed print

Platform to launch within a few days that will allow partners to build and integrate their own offerings

06 Jul 2011

IDC takes tape measure to cloud server market

Servers shipped for deployment in both public and private clouds set to rocket by more than 20 per cent annually until 2015

29 Jun 2011

Public cloud spending to reach $70bn by 2015

IDC predicts market will grow at four times the rate of the wider industry

20 Jun 2011

Mobile market smartens up

Fleur Doidge explores the mobile apps opportunity further

20 Jun 2011

IDC: Mobile users will want to print anywhere

Seamless printing key as mobile workforce expands

07 Jun 2011

IDC: PC growth revised down in 2011

Analyst predicts market is set for a rebound in 2012

06 Jun 2011

IDC hails worldwide disk market growth

Analyst's quarterly disk tracker reveals market share losses for Dell

03 Jun 2011

Wireless market soars in Q1

WLAN sales rocket more than 20 per cent, IDC figures report

02 Jun 2011

EMEA server growth hits four-year high

Buoyant x86 demand drives first double-digit-growth quarter for four years

01 Jun 2011

Global server sales up across all segments

IDC reports growing demand in Q1 across SMB, mid-size and large enterprise customers

25 May 2011

Nasty bump for see-saw network market in Q1

IDC figures show switching space suffered sharp contraction after buoyant 2010

24 May 2011

Microsoft shifts 350 million Windows 7 licences

Software giant reveals 18-month sales figures for its flagship operating system

26 Apr 2011

Tablet boom to erode prices

IDC predicts 2011 will see shipments skyrocket and ASPs plummet as competition hots up

01 Apr 2011

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CRN Partner Connect 2012

CRN Partner Connect logo

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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The mobile enterprise: Secure the data, not the device

The proliferation of endpoint devices within the enterprise has highlighted the shortcomings of one of the traditional approaches to data security

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Measuring the ROI of Google Apps

This Forrester report compares the costs and benefits of legacy email and productivity software with Google Apps


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Clocking off

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View from the channel

Views from the Channel

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