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Call for a more measured approach

Carl West is business group director at GfK

The channel needs much better metrics and measurement if it is to win over coveted smaller customers, warns Carl West

28 May 2012

Opening the door

open-door

Microsoft explains why intellectual property and cloud sales, rather than hardware, are the key for VARs to unlock new accounts and prise open more customer spend

28 May 2012

Top tools for big data sets

Brian Gentile talks about choosing the right approach to taking on a customer's big data

24 May 2012

Adaptation key to 2012 success

Bertrand Coquard says tumultuous times may continue, meaning VARs must remain flexible and customer-focused

23 May 2012

Get smart on application performance

Resellers should be looking at new approaches to app management, according to Owen Cole

22 May 2012

ChannelWeb's top five most read

A rundown of the top five most-read stories from last week

21 May 2012

Mixed feedback for “new and improved” CloudStore

Government unveils second iteration of the app store for its £60m G-Cloud framework

18 May 2012

Quantum portal takes leap forward

Quantum IQ tool designed to help resellers target customers based on their position in sales cycle

18 May 2012

UK IT firms feeling plucky

Business confidence in the sector soaring despite double-dip recession

16 May 2012

Giant slaying

Doug Woodburn speaks to Red Hat about the vendor's recent successes and its plans to bring the virtualisation fight to industry behemoth VMware - and win

14 May 2012

Infoblox swaps UK bosses

IPO funds will be lavished on channel, says incoming honcho Paul Anderson

09 May 2012

ChannelWeb's top five most read

A rundown of the most-read stories of last week

08 May 2012

At your discretion

EMC and Avaya latest vendors to confirm that discretion will have growing hand in how they dish out marketing funds

03 May 2012

ExactTrak injects £475,000 into channel

Start-up says its mobile data security products offers huge potential for the right distributor or reseller

02 May 2012

What's really in the cloud for VARs?

Sam Wijeyakumar lays down a route through the clouds to increased reseller profits

02 May 2012

I'm sorry, no-one works here

Apparently the age of the zero employee billion dollar business is upon us. Yikes!

02 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

Violin takes aim at EMC and Oracle market share

New kid on the flash memory array block targets rivals as it looks to grab $20m market opportunity through channel partners

30 Apr 2012

Out in the cold?

The bring-your-own-device boom will create huge disruption in the channel as individual employees take the procurement and support of hardware devices into their own hands, finds Doug Woodburn

30 Apr 2012

Rebranded Acora eyes expansion

VAR on recruitment charge after ditching ADA Technology Services name

30 Apr 2012

ChannelWeb's top five most read

A rundown of last week's most-read stories

30 Apr 2012

Infosec 2012: It was good, but was it the one?

Visitor numbers up as Roy Walker takes centre stage

26 Apr 2012

Esteem helps law firm avoid Olympics disruption

VAR rolls out Citrix remote access solution for Bird & Bird

23 Apr 2012

ChannelWeb's top five most read

A rundown of last week's most-read stories

23 Apr 2012

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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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Life's a beach

With a triumvirate of VARs getting into sporting sponsorship, Dave runs the rule over the brand-building opportunities

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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