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Sales go mobile in the channel as businesses turn to tablets

Mehryar Hamid is an IT account executive at GfK

It has been a positive first quarter for B2B sales despite the double dip, says Mehryar Hamid

11 May 2012

GfK: Buying tech offline still has appeal

Eastern promise for UK PC market in Q1

How to sell storage this year

Freeform Dynamics' Tony Lock

It’s not only about the technology, notes Tony Lock - to ensure big sales, resellers must also highlight the business benefits of systems to customers

23 Apr 2012

SMBs may be set to boost PC sales

Context's Marie-Christine Pygott

The turn of the year showed signs of promise for UK distribution, writes Marie-Christine Pygott

16 Apr 2012

Getting to grips with SMB resilience

Andrew Buss looks at using virtualisation to improve business continuity

30 Jan 2012

Closing the SMB security gap

Tony Lock analyses the essential role the channel has to play in helping smaller firms to command their security and data risk landscape

16 Jan 2012

Massive HDD price rises to come

Shortages caused by the recent, devastating floods in Thailand will have a long-term effect on the storage market, writes Alexandre Mesguich

21 Nov 2011

Cautious optimism sets scene for Q4

GfK’s Dominic Ashford picks out the likely success stories for IT sales following encouraging category performances in the third quarter of 2011

14 Nov 2011

Storage, software, and peripherals spur channel sales

IT reseller and mail order channels show strength in the first quarter

20 May 2011

Mixed bag for IT sales in Q4

Peripherals and e-readers shine amid assorted sales results

28 Feb 2011

Sales of 2.5in hard disk drives up at end of 2010

Notebook demand boosts sales of smaller internal drives

17 Jan 2011

Storing up success with HDD and NAS

GfK pinpoints areas of potential improvement for B2B storage sales

18 Nov 2010

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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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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