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Acquisitive Irish MSP snags Singapore-based Apple reseller
Acquisitive IT procurement and services firm builds out presence in APAC
IBM's new CEO bullish about growth prospects as it posts Q1 results
Big Blue scraps financial targets for 2020 amid coronavirus uncertainty, while analysts probe newly appointed CEO Arvind Krishna on bringing firm back to growth
How has COVID-19 changed the PC market?
IDC, Gartner and Canalys give conflicting opinions on the state of the PC market in Q1
Cohesity lands massive $250m funding
Firm claims it has doubled its valuation in less than two years
HPE bins full-year guidance due to pandemic uncertainty
Vendor is latest to scrap financial guidance over economic uncertainty caused by COVID-19
PC sales rocket in the UK as homeworking becomes the norm
Notebook sales see 51 per cent growth across western Europe, claims Context, as customers scramble to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic
NetApp scoops up vendor Talon Storage
Storage vendor claims acquisition adds to cloud data services portfolio
HPE hit by chip shortage and 'uneven business environment'
Infrastructure vendor plagued by Intel chip issues and coronavirus uncertainty
VMware to integrate Carbon Black, VeloCloud and Pivotal into new partner programme
Virtualisation vendor launches Partner Connect programme and promises to integrate acquired businesses Carbon Black, Pivotal and VeloCloud in coming months
'It's about not giving away margin to underperformers' - Pure COO on changes to partner incentives
Former Cisco channel boss and Riverbed CEO says Pure can’t give away margin to ‘non-performers’ as he hints at changes to incentives
Crayon benefiting from SoftwareONE-Comparex merger, claims CEO
Norway-based software and cloud partner claims merger has created ‘unique opportunity’ in European market as it closes out record growth in Q4
Meet the European tech channel's most influential women
CRN sister title CPI profiles 30 female power players at vendors, disties and resellers
Cisco predicts tough quarter ahead as revenue falls again
Networking giant expects revenues to continue to decline next quarter by as much as 3.5 per cent
HP to keep quiet on Xerox's latest bid
Vendor says it wants shareholders to have ‘full information’ on earnings before responding to Xerox’s renewed takeover approach
Updated: MWC cancelled after number of vendors pulled out
Huge trade show in jeopardy tech firms decide against attending
Xerox ups HP bid and boasts of shareholder support
Xerox ups bid for reluctant competitor by over nine per cent
SentinelOne's new EMEA boss has 'laser-sharp' focus on UK market
Newly-appointed boss Daniel Kollberg opens up about hiring ‘dozens’ of staff across Europe as part of expansion strategy
Bechtle growth surge continues as revenue tops €5bn
Preliminary results show revenues rocketed by 24 per cent
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