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Open all hours at customer convenience

Ben Davies is managing director of Comms-care

The 24-hour society is overloading IT infrastructure, but resellers can turn a headache into a range of opportunities, claims Ben Davies

25 May 2012

Make the invisible visible

FireEye's Paul Davis

Paul Davis says vendor consolidation has fragmented the approach to the evolving security threat landscape

30 Aug 2011

Top reasons for reseller failure

VIP Computers' Dave Stevinson

Various high-profile resellers have entered administration recently. Dave Stevinson explains why

04 Aug 2011

Microsoft-Skype deal is good for the channel

Skype support in Microsoft products will drive many areas of the market, predicts Dave Stevinson

18 May 2011

A response to Canalys channel predictions

Dave Ellis looks closer at the predictions for 2011 made by analyst house Canalys

12 Jan 2011

Consolidation through the clouds

Adam Zoldan tells how businesses can take advantage of upcoming merger and acquisition activity

10 Dec 2010

Channelling better credit

Are all things credit-related improving or not as the economy lifts?

18 Nov 2010

Consolidation across the channel

Chris Walsh gives his view on vendor consolidation and the effect on VARs

05 Aug 2010

Channelling better credit

Are all things credit-related improving or not as the economy lifts?

11 Jun 2010

Don't write off the customers

For me ­ the biggest story of last week was the Cadbury sell-out to Kraft, ­ totally non IT-related, but a sad moment for UK plc.

25 Jan 2010

Boosting SMB server virtualisation sales

Smaller companies are still baulking when it comes to virtualisation sales but could storage virtual appliances be the answer?

18 Jan 2010

Sun to shine on if Oracle deal is sealed

Reseller interest in Sun could be revived post-acquisition, predicts John Taylor

03 Nov 2009

A quarter-century of change in the channel

Phil Jones reflects on some channel lessons of the past 25 years

08 Sep 2009

Feeling the urge to merge

Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures in the current economic climate

04 Sep 2009

Getting the last laugh

Midwich looks back over an eventful 30 years in distribution

21 Aug 2009

Acquiring the channel facts

Acquisitions are a bit like buses; ­ you wait ages for one and then several come along at once.

07 Aug 2009

Acquisitive types may more easily beat the downturn

Matthew Hare says that company acquisitions are a force for good

24 Jun 2009

Editorial: Rays of hope in the gloom

While the nation ridicules MPs’ expenses claims and the national media eases back on its doomsaying a little, business in the channel is booming, so it seems.

29 May 2009

Prioritise IT and software asset management in a merger

Challenging times call for attention to compliance details, says Patrick Gunn

25 Feb 2009

Let us come together

Vendor consolidation can throw open some real benefits for savvy resellers that tweak channel strategies accordingly, finds Alex Teh

06 Feb 2009

Alternative considerations when going virtual

There are additional topics to think about when virtualising, according to Roger Baskerville

19 Jan 2009

Four Cs of datacentres

Consolidation, cooling and centralisation are main ways to cut costs in the 21st century datacentre, argues Donnie MacColl

20 Nov 2008

Automate and consolidate

Stefan Zeitzen looks at workload automation as a support to IT consolidation

19 Sep 2008

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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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The editor's diary

Lessons learned

I've discovered that iPads are great for consuming, not so good for creating

Dave the dealer blog

Dave the dealer

Life's a beach

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

View from the channel

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