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'Now more than ever leadership needs to recognise the value of rest' - Women in Tech Festival speaker Dr Nerina Ramlakhan
Physiologist Dr Ramlakhan tells CRN how she’s helping businesses prevent burnout during lockdown, and her hopes for next month’s Women in Tech Festival
Datto valuation tops $4bn after going public
The MSP vendor has raised over half a billion dollars in its New York public debut
Forcepoint's EMEA boss: 'We want to protect partner margins through deal registration'
Ben Richardson reveals plans for 'flatter' discount structure, stronger protection for Bronze-level partners and remaining a stable vendor in an increasingly saturated security market
Forrester's top five predictions for European businesses in 2021
From AI enablement to changing CIO priorities, Forrester has shared its advice for partners planning their 2021 strategies
CRN marks Ada Lovelace day with Women in Tech Festival discount
In honour of one of the world’s pioneering women in tech, CRN is offering a one-off Ada Lovelace admission price to the Women in Tech Festival
Nuvias appoints new CEO for UC arm
Jeremy Keefe has been appointed as the VAD’s UC business’ new chief executive
Webroot opens up on huge three-way merger
Webroot’s senior product officer says that while ‘anomalies’ persist between the OpenText-Webroot-Carbonite programs, all partners will soon have access to a single admin console
Cybersecurity spend rockets amid 'lockdown 2.0' - analyst
Market watcher Context outlines which countries have benefited the most from the security products sales spike since July
Cisco set to acquire security start-up Portshift
Networking giant says its latest buy is a reflection of its renewed focus on cloud-native apps
VMware makes fifth M&A grab of the year in SaltStack acquisition
Latest addition now 'completes our automation story', says virtualisation vendor
What you need to know from Google Cloud's NEXT EMEA event
CEO Thomas Kurian praises partners for their response to the challenges thrown up by the coronavirus
Capgemini flogs contact centre business to private equity firm
The French systems integrator giant has sold off the contact-centre-as-a-service (CCaaS) specialist
CrowdStrike splashes $96m on US security startup
Purchase of Preempt Security is only second acquisition for the 10 year old vendor
SentinelOne EMEA boss - 'We have trebled our team in the UK in last five months'
Roland Stritt opens up about poaching partners from Broadcom, triple-digit net new business growth during lockdown and rumours of an IPO on the horizon
UK 'significantly behind' parts of Europe in returning to offices - analyst
CONTEXT Index has ranked which country’s workers have returned to the office or are still remaining at home
Cisco in talks to nab AI startup BabbleLabs
US networking giant plans to use company's noise cancelling tech to bolster Webex offering
Dell tosses life ring to partners with extension of $9bn line of credit
Vendor's Payment Flexibility Program will be extended to help partners remain afloat through financial impact of pandemic
Which countries have been the biggest GDPR rule-breakers?
UK-based financial analysts Finbold rank which EU nations have been the top violators of GDPR this year
Xerox's European sales fall as partners 'respond to lower demand'
Print vendor says ongoing COVID-19 crisis has slashed both its top and bottom line
Lenovo claims its new 'one-stop shop' for partners will boost business
Chinese vendor launches new global partner hub to bring different strands of partner support into one place
Getronics changes hands again in €200m deal
New owner claims it will safeguard thousands of jobs after 'challenging period of transition' for Getronics
Arrow dropped from SonicWall distie line-up in Ireland
Vendor looks to outgrow its reputation as a firewall vendor through decision to drop Arrow ECS
Secureworks on increasing the 'small percentage' of business it does through the channel
The cybersecurity vendor’s global partner boss tells CPI how it's incentivising the European channel
Dell shares soar on VMware sale rumours
Dell Technologies is considering its strategy towards the jewel in its crown; virtualisation leader VMware
Server market seeing signs of post-COVID recovery - Context
Market watcher Context outlines which country markets are seeing growth return to the server sales
Remote working boom supercharges Cancom's revenues
Germany-headquartered reseller posts 27 per cent quarterly growth
Exclusive Networks targets Irish MSSP market with Vodafone Ireland SOC deal
Security distributor will build a SOC from scratch to provide managed security services for the Vodafone Ireland
Hyperscaler OVHcloud targets UK healthcare space
French IaaS giant targets the UK market’s healthcare vertical
Tech Data's blockbuster acquisition by Apollo delayed by Aussie authority
Distributor still awaiting decision from Australian regulatory body for $5.4bn Apollo takeover
Enterprise hardware market hit hard by COVID-19 - analyst
Market watcher Context outlines which market segments have been hardest hit by COVID-19, in North America and in Europe
Cognizant creates new Workday unit with enterprise app partner acquisition
US services giant bolsters cloud management portfolio with the acquisition of one of the largest Workday partners
Arrow CEO hails shift in focus despite sales drop
Michael Long says firm faced unprecedented challenges during COVID-19 crisis
Four key nuggets from Microsoft's mixed Q3
Vendor sees revenue top $35bn in a quarter that saw Teams adoption accelerate and Azure growth slow
Microsoft relaxes partner programme requirements
The vendor giant says it will back the channel with increased incentives
Exclusive execs hail 'record' year of growth as distie smashes £2bn-revenue barrier
Sales boss Andy Travers and marketing boss Barrie Desmond open up on the distributor's growth areas and how it is helping partners to become MSPs
Tech Data fights €76.1m French fine
Broadliner says it will appeal the French authority’s findings that it colluded with Apple to fix prices in the French market
Computacenter swoops on networking arm of BT France
The reseller giant and BT France have today announced they have entered into exclusive negotiations
Ingram launches aggressive defence after €62.9m 'cartel' fine
US distributor says it will 'vigorously contest' its €62.9m fine for alleged price-fixing in France market
Apple partner Jigsaw24 plots expansion into Germany
Jigsaw24’s enterprise director tells CPI why Apple is a better channel partner than ever and which European market it will expand into this year
Tech Data and Ingram fined €139m as part of Apple 'cartel' antitrust case
France’s competition watchdog has issued its largest ever fine, accusing the three companies of running an illegal cartel in France, fixing prices, and “sterilising” the French channel
Crippled trade shows have had £13bn impact on global economy - trade body
The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry has issued its first assessment of the impact COVID-19 is having on the tradeshow industry
Microsoft crowns new Azure Expert MSP
IT integration partner becomes one of just 65 globally to reach certification
Oracle poised to axe over 1,000 European jobs - reports
Five months after announcing it would hire 2,000, the vendor is reported to be cutting u to 1,300 roles
SentinelOne hits $1bn valuation with latest funding round
Israeli cybersecurity vendor adds to $120m round from last year
Coronavirus to dent Apple sales
Apples shares have fallen five per cent after vendor warns it will fail to hit quarterly revenue target
€150m-revenue services giant created as Arkphire completes Trilogy deal
Arkphire says the ambition of the €150m merged company is to become an 'Irish IT champion'
Meet the European tech channel's most influential women
CRN sister title CPI profiles 30 female power players at vendors, disties and resellers
Scansource close to securing buyer for hardware business
Distributor expects the sale of $632m-reveneue unit to close in next quarter