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Government fires starting gun for £4bn IT framework

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Channel firms welcome government's attempt to save taxpayer money through new centralised framework

08 Feb 2012

New faces hail Buying Solutions success

Insight hires Buying Solutions man for public sector push

Computacenter urges clients to act on Microsoft price shift

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VAR joins the band of partners advising customers to get up to speed on upcoming changes to volume pricing

08 Feb 2012

Nine VARs picked for £25m audiovisual framework

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University consortium selects suppliers for three-year agreement

06 Feb 2012

Microsoft volume price shift could see big rise for UK customers

Vendor decides to align pricing to euro from 1 July as partner Softcat urges clients to act swiftly to prepare

02 Feb 2012

HDD shortage prompts resellers to adapt

Constraints in supply of entry-level machines have forced some UK resellers to think differently

14 Dec 2011

CRN Top VARs: The future of the reseller

CRN chats to four differing VARs and a distie about recession, collaboration, cloud and protecting margins

30 Nov 2011

A hire education

Apprenticeships and graduate training schemes are seeing a rise in popularity. Caroline Donnelly finds out how the channel is guiding the next generation

17 Nov 2011

Softcat gears up to move house

Two years of growth prompt move to a swanky new office, twice the size of its previous HQ

21 Oct 2011

In sickness, in health

Public sector cuts and the associated reformation of the NHS mean a bigger push for efficiencies

17 Oct 2011

Softcat secures soft landing for Flybe's IT

VAR uses Veeam's backup and recovery product to protect airline's operations

04 Oct 2011

Softcat gets claws into graduate recruitment

VAR welcomes 40 new recruits to its account management and customer service teams

19 Sep 2011

Softcat adds 20 public sector heads

Reseller triples size of Mancunian office after recruitment spree

19 Aug 2011

HP TouchPad: The postmortem

HP accused of a lack of investment after underwhelming sales, but was canning it a month after launch a rash move?

19 Aug 2011

HP PSG bombshell: The channel reaction

HP partners sanguine about possible ownership change; Samsung, Huawei and ZTE touted as possible suitors

19 Aug 2011

Softcat: End users' IT priorities remain unchanged for 2011

VAR's research reveal the top five IT priorities are the same in 2011 as 2010

27 Jul 2011

HP VARs welcome ServiceOne launch

Channel partners look forward to selling widened services portfolio

18 Jul 2011

Softcat bursts through £200m barrier

Reseller posts nigh on 40 per cent top-line growth to pass landmark with two weeks to spare

15 Jul 2011

Softcat first out of the blocks on EVA P6000

Reseller draws on Azlan’s technical might to land first UK deal involving HP’s new storage solution

15 Jun 2011

Insight hires Buying Solutions man for public sector push

Former DSGi and Macwarehouse man Jon Lang fills vacancy left by Jamie Burke's recent departure

14 Jun 2011

Following the crowd: meet the channel tweeters

ChannelWeb has compiled a list of the industry's top tweeters (so far)

25 May 2011

Softcat gets claws into public sector recruitment

VAR wants to recruit more than 60 staff to support sector-specific growth plans

17 May 2011

Softcat reaches new heights in FY10

Reseller records 29 per cent top-line growth and healthy margins during successful year

10 May 2011

Softcat plays host to Vision Solutions

VAR adds vendor's disaster recovery products to SPLA programme

15 Apr 2011

Bullish Stone is happy with its Lot

System builder and VAR wants to oust Dell as top supplier to education market

28 Mar 2011

Softcat gets it all on for Red Nose Day

Cross-dressing, chilli eating and fish pedicures by VAR raises thousands for Comic Relief

23 Mar 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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