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WATCH: 'AI is a millions of pennies business model' for the channel
Opportunity for channel partners is 'incredibly rich', IBM Watson partner chief claims
Six reasons why you need to attend CRN Channel Conference MSP
Tomorrow's Channel Conference MSP will provide all the answers for MSPs looking to get their business in shape for the 2020s.
Reseller bosses to spill secrets on how to attract and retain top talent
Top execs from Softcat, Chess, ANS and Natilik to discuss what MSPs and resellers can do to stand out in the war for talent
'I'm looking forward to asking him who will win the World Cup'
Ultima CEO Scott Dodds will sit down with former England scrum-half Andy Gomarsall at CRN's MSP London conference next week
Women in Tech Festival UK in pictures...
Yesterday's event brought together women and men from the channel and end-user tech community. View the highlights here
Playing rugby for England made me a great negotiator
Former England rugby scrum-half Andy Gomarsall - who is now a director at IT lifecycle management outfit N2S - will be reflecting on the parallels between sport and business at CRN's upcoming MSP London conference.
Industry cheers Computing A-level uptick
Proportion of girls taking Computing has doubled over last five years, with the number of girls and boys taking STEM subjects also on the rise
Last chance to rain fury or praise on your vendors...
The 2019 Vendor Report is about to close. Don't miss your chance of bagging a free Exec Summary by being among the respondents
Rich product pickings propel SCC to record year
Birmingham-based IT group hints at further 'targeted acquisitions' as it unveils record full-year revenues of £2.2bn
Private equities are hot for MSPs right now - here's why
The allure of managed services providers extends beyond recurring revenues, according to CRN editor Doug Woodburn
Exclusive: Ultima Business Solutions sells majority stake to private equity house
CEO Scott Dodds says deal with Apse Capital - which sees founder Max McNeill become a significant minority shareholder - will spark internal investment and potential acquisitions
Apple's wearables arm now bigger than most Fortune 500 companies
iPad and Mac updates help Apple return to growth in its fiscal Q3
Five pro-AV specialists on the technologies they are tipping for take-off
Which audiovisual technologies will take the UK market by storm over the next 12 to 18 months? We asked five specialist audiovisual integrators for their opinion
CRN Women in Channel Awards shortlist unveiled
Finalists announced ahead of big night on 17 October
My CRN Women in Channel shortlisting experience
Doug Woodburn lifts the lid on the initial judging phase for the 2019 CRN Women in Channel Awards
Quiz: Can you identify the vendor from these glowing partner testimonials?
Resellers have been heaping praise on the vendor in our 2019 Vendor Report. But can you match these eight comments to the vendor in question?
UK's top 15 audiovisual integrators break £400m revenue barrier
Latest report from CRN Essential looks at the key trends affecting the audiovisual channel
2019 Audiovisual Integrator Report
A rundown of the UK's top 15 audiovisual resellers and trends impacting their business
Channel Chief of the Year: Who are you backing?
Pure Storage's Gary Matson, HP's Neil Sawyer and Dell's Rob Tomlin in three-way tussle for CRN Channel Awards' only people's choice category
2019 Vendor Report relaunched following glitch
Are your vendors behaving themselves?
Arrow plans to close PC asset disposition business, including in the UK
Business dynamics have changed since Arrow entered the PC and mobility asset disposition market, CEO Michael Long says as he also announced Q2 results will fall short of expectations
Partner power prompts Microsoft IUR rethink
'We listened to you, and we have acted,' Gavriella Schuster tells partners
Lenovo tightens PC stranglehold as shipments rebound
Chinese vendor's marketshare surges to 25 per cent, although Gartner admits gains may reflect anticipation of potential tariffs
SCC AVS boss: We want to be up there with AVMI and ProAV
AV integrator targets market leadership status under new owner SCC
'I can't wait to Windows shop!' Partner reaction to Microsoft London store opening
Flagship 22,000 square foot outlet opens to general public this morning, but not all partners are convinced of Microsoft's motives
Which MSP has just appointed Sir Clive Woodward to its board?
Former England rugby coach says he was drawn to Southampton-based firm's 'highly strategic approach to IT'
WATCH: 'Don't give up too early', Lawrence Jones MBE tells MSP North audience
UKFast CEO says too many business owners sell up after ten years
RM posts flat revenues amid 'difficult schools market'
RM Education arm sees interim sales wilt by 6.5 per cent
Microsoft doubles down on Azure with Cloud Adoption Framework
Some partners are retooling entire go-to-market strategy around new end-to-end cloud initiative
Cybersecurity worth $9bn for channel in Q1
Global cybersecurity spend booms 14.2 per cent in Q1, according to Canalys
Managed print provider ASL swaps private equity backers
Primary Capital Partners pledges to accelerate M&A
Troubled Adept4 nears end of strategic review
Managed services provider sees interim losses widen to £1.1m
The accountant, the marketeer and the lawyer: Meet your new competitors
Professional services firms are beginning to take a larger share of the tech budget, with over a third of MSPs and resellers now seeing marketing firms as competitors, CRN research confirms
Six reasons why you need to attend CRN MSP North
Manchester-based event takes place this Wednesday
Softcat CEO on 5G, cracking £2bn revenues, US operational plans and why the channel is winning
Graeme Watt tells CRN he sees 'no end in sight' for current digital transformation investment cycle as he declares that the market is as 'good as he's ever seen it'
Infosecurity Europe: Is the industry back on the front foot?
Despite a fall in recorded ransomware and malware levels last year, experts at Europe's largest cybersecurity show reject the contention that the cybersecurity threat level has eased
Has the modern workplace spawned a new breed of MSP?
Dropbox channel lead says its most successful partners are now selling five to eight cloud-based applications in a single wrap
'We'd like to dump them like so many bricks': Most brutal burns from CRN Vendor Report - so far….
Vendors variously branded 'appalling', 'elitist' and 'anti-channel' in CRN 2019 Vendor Report
New price comparison website courts UK's 800 managed print providers
Managed print dealers can receive leads in their local postcode from £45 a month from new venture
UK's top 30 print resellers defy paperless office as sales top £1bn
Print providers are posting net profits nearly two percentage points above the VAR 300 average, according to the 2019 Print Provider Report
'I'm surprised to be back': Phil Doye acquires SBL
York-based Microsoft partner unveils ambitious growth strategy as Kelway founder comes on board as CEO
Fuelling success? IT reseller acquired by petrol station operator EG Group
EG Group acquires Preston-based Microsoft partner GB3 and appoints founder Graham Billsborough as CIO
Scottish Cisco partner Hutchinson Networks goes into administration
'Rising star in global IT network deployment' hits the wall
Autonomy's former finance boss sentenced to five years in prison
Sushovan Hussain handed prison sentence seven years after HP unearthed what it claims were 'serious accounting improprieties' at Autonomy
Exclusive research: Phishing outranks ransomware as top cyber-threat for 2019
Some 17 per cent of IT decision makers polled in CRN research say they have been the victim of a ransomware attack
'If we as business owners don't solve the skills shortage, no one will' - UKFast founder on £5m foundation
Lawrence Jones claims distraction of Brexit has put onus on business owners to assuage tech skills shortage as he unveils UKFast Community and Education Trust
'You'd be mad to sell their technology in 2019': How Vendor Report's 'Big Four' are faring so far
Microsoft, Cisco, Dell and HPE have had more responses than anyone else so far in the CRN 2019 Vendor Report. We take a snapshot of how they are polling mid-way through the research
Hunter becomes the hunted as SecureLink grabbed by Orange in €515m deal
Orange trumpets itself as a 'European cybersecurity leader' as it follows up SecureData purchase by acquiring €250m-revenue pan-European MSSP