Opinion

Velcro your customers to you

Phil Jones is sales and marketing director at Brother UK

The glue of long-term customer relationships is developed through multiple points of trust, says Phil Jones

08 Feb 2012

The death of the office

Qliktech's Sean Farrington

Sean Farrington asks whether remote working capabilities will spell the end of the office/home divide

07 Feb 2012

Reward in a recession

UKFast's Lawrence Jones

Spending on staff is a worthwhile investment even in tough times, according to Lawrence Jones

06 Feb 2012

Policing the new network traffic

Adam Davison looks at the future of the network in light of the rise of commercial off-the-shelf hardware

02 Feb 2012

On track to transform enterprise printing

Louella Fernandes examines the future of Nuance offerings in the printing and imaging market

01 Feb 2012

Darker days ahead for distribution

Dave Stevinson scries out the future of distribution and distributors

31 Jan 2012

Liberal leanings in IT

Consumerisation will lead to more liberalisation around the use of IT within many organisations, argues Craig Wellman

27 Jan 2012

Understanding the threat

Paul Davis puts the latest and more advanced malware life cycles under his microscope with a view to rapid response

26 Jan 2012

A big data opportunity

VARs are poised to benefit from an expansion in business analytics in these tough times, claims Alistair Washbourn

25 Jan 2012

Taming SIP Vicious

Punk's not dead in the VoIP space, and action must be taken, notes Peter Cox

24 Jan 2012

Think vertical to gain focus

James Harris talks up the need to get specific when selling potential networking deals to enterprises

23 Jan 2012

Signs of the times

Steve Hales looks at the many benefits of digital signage and explains why this fast-moving and fast-growing sector could be a boon to resellers

20 Jan 2012

VARs need support in ERP market

Large vendors are not helping smaller partners sell ERP, says Paul Marry

18 Jan 2012

SaaS customisation is not dead

Rajesh Ranjan looks at where to draw the line between configuration and customisation in SaaS

17 Jan 2012

Rocky landscape ahead for channel credit

Philip White warns of a winding and bumpy road for channel funding in 2012

13 Jan 2012

Video can help today's schools

As the massive Bett education show opens in London this year, Daniel Weisbeck talks up videoconferencing in schools

11 Jan 2012

The rise and rise of consumer technology

Ian Jackson looks at the channel opportunity from consumer mobile devices in the workplace

10 Jan 2012

No more buzzword bingo

Glenn Hickling calls for better two-way communication between channel customers and their suppliers

09 Jan 2012

Smoother path to profits

Vendors need to help resellers smooth out their cashflow, argues Florian Malecki

04 Jan 2012

Don't be tempted to cut prices

Antony Byford says supply chain disruption caused by the Thai floods show that discounting is not always the best way to recover

03 Jan 2012

Security should not cost the earth

Andy Kemshall says token-based authentication technology is damaging our planet

22 Dec 2011

VDI out of the box

Matt McPhail says SMBs need VDI that can be deployed, scaled, and managed easily

21 Dec 2011

Do not side-step business continuity

Neil Stephenson talks up business continuity planning and disaster recovery opportunities

20 Dec 2011

Post-sales equally important in CRM

Matt Garman says customers often need further training on CRM

15 Dec 2011

DDoS attacks can be targeted

Jeremy Nicholls looks at the reseller opportunity around distributed denial of service attacks

14 Dec 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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