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Cancom CEO walks over 'different opinions' with board
Cancom returned to the UK market in 2018 and acquired an Irish MSP last year
Symantec's services business offloaded by Broadcom
Global SI acquires six security operations centres and 300 Symantec staff
Share prices of UK resellers get boost in wake of general election
Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party gained a massive majority in this year’s election which he said is a mandate to “get Brexit done”
Dell cuts $2bn from revenue forecast as chip storage restrains PC market
Vendor's server business sees steep decline for third consecutive quarter
Getronics CEO departs as global restructuring begins
IT services firm to bring back Pomeroy brand to the US market as high-level execs leave the company
HP snubs takeover bid in damning letter to Xerox board
Print giant says it is still "open to exploring" potential merger
The four key takeaways from this year's Canalys Channel Forum
Partners weigh in on the big talking points from the event: including HP and Lenovo's controversies to Tech Data's rumoured sale.
'We can be faster' - incoming HP CEO on stripping out regional management layers
Enrique Lores opens up on HP's restructuring and job cuts
Lenovo and HP slated, and Google's acquisition targets - five takeways from Canalys Channel Forum 2019
Steve Brazier also claims that resellers have 'outgrown' large systems integrators
IDC, Gartner and Canalys argue over health of PC market
Research from all three analyst firms disagree on everything from Apple's positioning to global market growth in Q3
All the key info as SoftwareONE plots public listing
We highlight four things the industry should know as the software licensing giant announces plans to exit private ownership
Licensing giant SoftwareONE to go public
IPO set to happen before the end of this year
NTT Security CEO on 'bad-guys-as-a-service' and consolidation in the MSSP space
CRN's sister publication Channel Partner Insight speak to Matt Gyde
Avanade acquires German Dynamics partner
Microsoft and Accenture entity buys up €12m firm
Are these reseller giants considering a Cancom takeover bid?
Cancom said it is 'considering options' regarding a sale
Westcon-Comstor appoints heads for comms and security in EMEA restructure
New appointments made as distie splits business into collaboration and cybersecurity arms
Tech Data European boss: 'If you don't scale in Europe in every country, you will struggle'
Patrick Zammit opens up on sacrificing market share for profit stability and what ScanSource's hardware sale means for the distribution landscape
Equinix's EMEA channel boss on why it will never follow in Rackspace's footsteps
Oren Yehudai claims datacentre firm won't be making the same move as one of its old competitors
'I now buy from other vendors when I can' - partners attack HP for 'undercutting' the channel
Fears emerge the vendor is 'silently' ramping up its direct model with aggressive pricing
Microsoft snaps up cloud start-up
Tech giant claims acquisition will make migration easier for its customers
Former Toshiba PC business mulls move into server space
PC business was sold to Sharp and is now considering expanding into new areas
Tech Data's European sales decline for second straight quarter
Currency fluctuations push sales to a third consecutive quarter of declines
Is Ingram Micro finally going to be sold?
HNA will reportedly make sale to Asian private equity firm RRJ within a few days
VMware to acquire Carbon Black
VMware CEO defends acquisition as investor suggests Carbon Black is not 'the cream of the crop' in the security market
HPE ordered to pay DXC $666m
Damages relate to spin out of DXC and CSC from HPE Enterprise Services in 2017
Dell in talks to sell Pivotal to VMware
Pivotal's stock soar by 70 per cent after VMware publishes SEC filing
UK contributes to Bechtle's revenue surge
CEO Thomas Olemotz says Bechtle will better last year's numbers
Key info from Insight's results as EMEA sales dip but profit rises
Reseller also claims that PCM will be integrated quickly
Meet the 25 largest distributors in the UK
Exclusive research from CPI and IT distribution database ChannelHub reveals the top players in the UK market
On 6 August 1991: The World Wide Web changed how the channel would sell forever
CRN's sister publication CPI looks back at how the World Wide Web opened the door to new sales models for resellers
Arrow CEO explains rationale behind shunning of ITAD business
Michael Long reveals ITAD unit posted a $17m loss in Q2
What partners need to know as IBM and Red Hat seal merger
Channel bosses from IBM and Red Hat open up on channel overlap, programmes and fast-tracking Red Hat partners
Five key takeaways after Microsoft's Internal Use Rights bombshell
Microsoft caused uproar last week by quietly announcing plans to remove Internal Use Rights from its Gold and Silver partners. CRN sister title CPI breaks down five key talking points
Bechtle opens second UK office to target northern market
German VAR opens second location in the UK as it chases £100m revenues
Is this giant Nordic reseller coming to the UK?
CEO Steinar Sønsteby tells CRN sister publication CPI he is actively looking to acquire a channel partner in the next 12 months with at least 'a couple of hundred million euros' in revenues
Exertis Hammer expands further into mainland Europe
Storage distributor sets up office in Barcelona, boosting its European coverage to seven countries
Tech Data's revenue dragged down by European performance
Europe the only geographic region to see sales drop
Ingram Micro acquires in EMEA to bolster 'high priority' cybersecurity offering
US giant acquires Forcepoint, F5, Kaspersky and McAfee partner Abbakan
Computacenter sees UK growth despite tough comparison quarter
Reseller ahead of expectations at the start of 2019
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Meet the European channel's highest-paid CEOs
CRN's sister publication CPI ranks CEOs from firms including Computacenter, Bechtle and Capgemini by salary
Computacenter takes 'giant leap' with new integration centre
Mike Norris cuts the ribbon on €50m investment after opening US office last week
Eight reasons why you should enter the industry's newest MSP awards
Pit your business against peers across Europe in the inaugural MSP Innovation Awards, powered by CRN sister publication CPI
Why Pure storage is passing partner engagement to its disties
Flash vendor says it currently works with almost all of its partners directly, but will change this with new model
Comparex name to vanish in all markets
Rebranding to SoftwareONE comes two months after acquisition completed
Why this MSP lost its belief in hybrid cloud because of Azure Stack
Could Microsoft Azure and AWS Outposts be putting people off hybrid cloud?
'I made a mistake': Econocom CEO makes incredible admission in investor address
The straight-talking Jean-Louis Bouchard issues brutally honest assessment of why the firm struggled last year