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Former Annodata boss buys Academia
Andrew Harman plotting M&A spree after acquiring 75 per cent stake in £70m-revenue Apple partner
CRN Women in Channel Q&A: EPOS
Jane Craven, EPOS sales director UK & Ireland, explains why the vendor is backing CRN Women in Channel 2020
WATCH: Bamboo execs gives digital transformation masterclass
In this session for CRN's Digital Transformation Deskflix, Lorrin White and Phil Thomas from MSP Bamboo Technology discuss how to engage customers around digital transformation
'Keeping staff home for another six months feels like a dereliction of my duties': Channel reaction to government's work from home U-turn
Boris Johnson's latest COVID update met with mixed reception from MSPs and resellers that have spent recent weeks making offices COVID-safe
WATCH: Softcat, boxxe and Insight bosses on technology landscape moving into Q4
Graeme Watt, Phil Doye and Emma de Sousa give their verdict on market opportunities during CRN's Digital Transformation Deskflix event
CRN Women in Channel Q&A: Exertis
Jo Lawrence, HR director at Exertis, on why the distributor is supporting CRN's 2020 Women in Channel campaign
Six channel entrepreneurs who quit to pursue their passions
Is jacking it all in to follow a dream worth it? CRN catches up with six former channel bosses to find out....
AWS partners are helping level up the UK, AWS UK boss claims
Darren Hardman talks CRN through new report claiming that economic benefit cloud brings to the UK outweighs the contribution of the Premier League
Insight, boxxe and Softcat bosses on how channel can seize digital transformation opportunity
Emma de Sousa, Phil Doye and Graeme Watt in CRN panel debate showdown
NVIDIA to acquire Arm for $40bn - but not everyone's happy about it
NVIDIA says blockbuster deal – set to complete in 18 months – will create premier computing company for the age of AI
Channel demand bounces back in fourth CRN COVID poll
Only 34 per cent of those questioned said they are now experiencing lower-than-normal demand for their services, compared with 61 per cent previously.
Larry Ellison's five boldest brags on Oracle's latest earnings call
The Oracle chairman went on the offensive against AWS and other rivals as the vendor beat quarterly revenue estimates by $150m
Former partner boss Barclay handed Microsoft UK top job
Clare Barclay to succeed Cindy Rose on 1 October
School's finally out for long-time RM boss David Brooks
After 25 years at edtech supplier, RM CEO informs board he wishes to change careers
Huawei to axe up to 20 jobs as it rationalises UK enterprise portfolio
Move to pull server, networking and storage gear from UK shelves connected to Trump pressure
Mark Ash bounces back from bike smash with Konica Minolta appointment
Former Samsung and Altodigital executive says industrial and commercial print will have key role to play in 'new normal' as he takes up new role
'25 per cent of the world's power is going to be used by ICT by 2025 - and that's hitting home'
Liquid immersion cooling is being primed by some as the future of greener datacentres. CRN recently dropped in on Colt's HQ to see the technology in action...
'The office is not dead': Seven tech bosses on office vs WFH debate
Return-to-work is dividing tech providers large and small. With Boris Johnson urging staff back to the office, CRN summarises the contrasting approaches of seven tech firms on this thorny topic...
Have you made an office return?
As Grant Shapps declares it's "now safe to go back to work', let us know where you stand in our poll
Six key takeaways from Dell and HP results showdown
The two giants of the industry went head to head with quarterly numbers last night
Meet the two new security technologies Gartner is priming for 'mainstream adoption'
Remote working tech expected to get boost from ongoing pandemic
Target Components MD admits distie was 'running out of steam' as it records record revenue
Distributor bounces back with 20 per cent sales hike after restructuring knocked its growth off course
Brits abroad: Which UK resellers generate the most overseas sales?
UK tech solution providers are defying Brexit and COVID by continuing to expand internationally. But which are making the most sales overseas, and what is the story behind their success?
Brits abroad
Charting the overseas success of UK resellers and MSPs
Zoom In: Logicalis flags rise in quick and easy digital transformation projects
“Rather than a big bang, multi-zero project, we’re starting to see more sensible, realistic, quicker-to-influence, quicker-to-adopt projects,” UK MD Alex Louth says
PC ownership will rise from one-per-family to one-per person, Lenovo CEO predicts
COVID will have long-term positive impact on PC sales and will swell the total addressable market from 260-270 million to 300 million units a year, according to Yuanqing Yang
11 times Computacenter's straight-talking CEO told it like it is
Mike Norris has refused to pull his punches in CRN interviews down the years. Here we round up 11 of his top zingers from the last decade...
Midwich sits pretty with Poly amid unified comms push
Distributor launches Hardware as a Service programme as its Poly contract goes global
SCC makes 'big bet' on IoT with new practice
Birmingham-based IT group builds own intellectual property as it targets verticals including healthcare and manufacturing
Computacenter CEO: 'We're not as big as we'd like to be in the US'
“I don't want to wear Union Jack underpants - but our IT industry needs any help it can get," Mike Norris tells CRN as he opens up on Computacenter's international expansion plans
IBM partner scores NHS Wales chatbot victory
Meridian IT helps develop capability of CERi, a Watson-based virtual assistant designed to communicate with patients, healthcare workers and the general public
Dixons Carphone 'remains committed' to stores despite eliminating 800 roles
Electricals retailer to introduce flatter management structure at its UK and Ireland stores as COVID-19 continues to bite
Four key takeaways from Arrow's Q2 results
Big resellers are doing better than small ones during COVID-19, Arrow top brass say on Q2 earnings call
CRN Women in Channel 2020 shortlist unveiled as event goes virtual
Who made it onto the shortlist this year?
'We were high-fiving strangers in the street - then corona hit': ANS CEO on COVID-19 disruption
View Paul Shannon's full keynote from last week's CRN Deskflix event
AWS partner boss on how partners can break through with public cloud giant
Amanda Sleight holds up Bytes and Inaswisdom as examples of partners that have used AWS' competency and certification schemes to build a thriving business with AWS
Watch industry bosses debate the future of the MSP market
Top executives from AWS, ANS, Ultima and Cancom among those taking part in CRN Deskflix event tomorrow
How is COVID impacting your business...?
CRN is tracking how the pandemic is impacting UK channel activity levels. Be part of the latest ANONYMOUS poll, which takes less time to complete than boiling a kettle.
Which areas of cybersecurity market will grow fastest in 2020?
Canalys forecasts that overall security market will grow by 2.5 per cent this year even under a 'worst case scenario'
Why it's not all gravy for AV: Midwich's sales 'less than 50 per cent of expectations' at height of pandemic
Audio visual distributor reveals fall out from COVID-19 pandemic in first-half trading update
Resellers' inability to access customer sites hampers B2B sales at Exertis parent
Although DCC Group stresses that it is pleased with trading across its four arms
Start-up reseller: 'We want get to £100m revenue - but do it in a different way from everyone else'
Vohkus co-founder David Manners claims his Basingstoke-based reseller has a different ethos from rivals when it comes to staff recruitment and retention, and charity work
Eight resellers reveal which vendors have most impressed them during pandemic…
Vendors have stepped up during the pandemic to offer customers and partners free software and extra support. But who has stood out the most? Eight reseller and MSP bosses have their say...
Computacenter closes in on £100m-revenue French acquisition
BT agrees sale of French networking unit after completing consultation process with works councils