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ShoreTel breaks into hosted space with $150m M5 buy

A briefcase full of cash

IP telephony vendor reaches into its pocket to acquire cloud comms specialist

02 Feb 2012

Bush Telegraph and Atia win at Swyx event

Bush Telegraph's Kevin Barker receiving a Best Newcomer 2011 gong from Swyx's Ralf Ebbinghaus

Telecomms vendor acknowledges UK reseller success

20 Jan 2012

No buying the farm

Aiming for a bucolic existence - or just aiming wrong - may have unintended consequences, suggests Stuart Cordingley

16 Jan 2012

ShoreTel hunts enterprise A-team to help double EMEA sales

Vendor issues RFP for pan-EMEA distributors and looks to deepen ties with handful of tactical resellers

13 Jan 2012

Lift and balance the load

George Zervos weighs up the growing need for server load balancing among SMBs and looks at how it could benefit the channel

18 Nov 2011

M&A veteran joins Six Degrees

Former Vodafone director Peter Bamford says newborn managed data services outfit has compelling vision

14 Nov 2011

Westcoast throws UC hat into ring

Distributor sets up dedicated unified communications team as it pursues ambitious growth targets

01 Nov 2011

Is BlackBerry crumbling?

Could Research in Motion's recent service outage prompt firms to abandon the BlackBerry device and jump ship in favour of its rivals?

27 Oct 2011

Channel rushes to RIM’s aid in its time of need

Outage could highlight the strengths as well as weaknesses of smartphone vendor's infrastructure, resellers argue

24 Oct 2011

RIM placates customers with free support

Chief executive Mike Lazaridis claims vendor is taking “aggressive steps” to prevent repeat of last week’s outage

17 Oct 2011

Creating a stir

In an age of technological disruption, perhaps channel investment should follow suit, says David Galton-Fenzi

07 Oct 2011

TalkTalk snaps up long-term partner Greystone

Carrier buys Northwich reseller for undisclosed sum

05 Oct 2011

Azlan "committed to UC" despite Avaya rumours

Questions raised over future of Avaya's relationship with one of its four UK distributors

23 Sep 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

Mitel: No plans to move back to two-tier model

Signing of Trust Distribution designed to give vendor access to small business space, but wider single-tier model is here to stay

19 Sep 2011

Mitel puts Trust in first UK distributor since 2007

Comms vendor appoints Lancashire outfit to distribute 5000 CP product, four years after canning all five UK distributors

16 Sep 2011

Solar power tops ShoreTel partners for fourth time

Chippenham reseller recognised among 500 other partners worldwide

01 Sep 2011

Ex-Azlan man Shepperd replaces Shorten as Avaya UK boss

Andrew Shepperd appointed vendor's UK chief as Lee Shorten hits road to pursue other opportunities

26 Aug 2011

Westcon enjoys stellar FY11 in Europe

UK sales up more than 12 per cent for comms and networking distie

21 Jul 2011

Alcatel-Lucent confirms possible sale of enterprise unit

Following months of speculation, comms vendor admits it is examining "strategic options"

21 Jul 2011

Avnet in the picture with LifeSize

Distributor adds video vendor to UC portfolio

15 Jul 2011

Tech a break

Stone the crows! Brits feel overwhelmed by too much technology. A decidedly glum Dave investigates

12 Jul 2011

Daisy's acquisition appetite wanes

Comms provider to slow M&A pace as FY11 figures show explosion of sales and debt levels

28 Jun 2011

CompTIA: UC deployment gains pace

Latest research from industry body questioned more than 900 IT professionals and channel firms

20 Jun 2011

Avaya cements BT union with IP Office 7.0

Vendor hopes rising demand will negate the need for more distribution tinkering

19 May 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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