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Educated Bett for a digital future
A US futurist at Bett has made four predictions about the market for schools IT 10 years from now. Fleur Doidge reports
Maintel pushes out Avaya cloud to boost services further
MSP chosen for Avaya carrier-grade early adopter programme
Talking point: Languages for business
Fleur Doidge asks if language e-learning software might be a useful add-on for resellers looking to boost their margins
Top 2015 challenge may be human resources, says SCC
But business confidence is improving among customers of mid-market integrator
Esteem gains 14 per cent in annual EBITDA
Turnover rises to £34.7m for the year ending 30 June 2014 and EBITDA to £4m
Billions of pounds wasted on schools technology
Education IT leaders agree that sales have not led to hoped-for success
Capita closes Sheffield council deal until 2022
Leading public sector outsourcing player seals off another £140m to £170m over six years
FSB tackles supply chain 'bullies' in Parliament
Powerful partners still exploit market position with late payments culture
Westcoast is master distributor for mobile-friendly Smart boards
Mobile-friendly interactive Kapp offering is latest bid to reinvigorate whiteboard sales
Softcat ready for 40 new hires before Easter
Thirteen roles currently advertised as VAR moves towards annual growth goal
Home land technology
ChannelWeb goes down on the farm and asks what technologies could help the channel dig deeper in this vertical market?
Southampton science park approves Colva IT as supplier
Home site adds Colva to list of approved services providers
Balreed expands revenue 34 per cent to £38m
Imaging and documentation services provider rises in year to December 2014
Apple hails superlative App Store year
Mobile app e-tail worldwide will continue to expand through 2015
Breakout year wear ever you like
Certain types of wearable are tipped to grow faster this year but activity trackers continue to dominate
Where will channel growth come from in 2015?
Fleur Doidge asks industry watchers and channel insiders where businesses will focus this year
WANdisco seals its largest big-data deal so far
Hadoop offering that solves legacy datacentre issues goes live at British Gas
Midwich hires new head of consumables
Veteran from Advent Data joins distributor
MicroSD drives non-SSD flash memory market
Flash USB drives and standard-sized memory cards are in decline, says analyst
Exertis to manage global ERP vendor supply chain
Supply chain division chosen to oversee delivery of specialist vehicle systems
CRN Channel Forecast - with Webroot's Charles Tomeo
Find out how partners are adding value in the security space in this Webroot-sponsored Q&A
Lancs hotel group migrates from cloud with JMC IT
Michelin-starred Northcote moves IT platform from cloud back to on-premise in five-year system and support deal
Phones 4u stock goes on the block
Auctions of kit from Phones 4u liquidation going live across the UK
A party political broadcast
The workplace Christmas party is popular with some - less popular with others. How are channel companies celebrating this year?
Streamlined fishing
A Scottish shellfish company has contoured its successful IT approach in time for Christmas
Phoenix rises to Redmayne-Bentley contract
Three-year managed services deal with UK stockbroker and fund manager
Microsoft case no obstacle to future growth: Discount-Licensing
A year of consolidation and investment has positioned secondhand supplier for expansion
SaaS now driving the content security market
Appliances and traditional software once led the way - now it is cloud software
Price of 3D printers still too high, survey suggests
Gartner research into organisational views underlines current barriers to entry
Special report: What you don't know can hurt you
In backup and data protection it has been all Greek to many customers for far too long. Fleur Doidge reports
For one night only
Whether it was your first Channel Awards or your 21st, there was something for everyone at Battersea Arena on Thursday 14 November 2014
CRN roundtable: Backup and data protection with Dell Software
How to guard the customer organisations that act as if data loss just will not happen to them
Services seek to save billions with IT in 2015
Strategies that save money and improve service eyed by a range of service organisations
Eureka for Scottish cloud solutions
East Kilbride-based VAR enjoys raft of new signings to cloud services
Heady Q3 for interactive displays and whiteboards
Quarterly sales round-up shows a boost in market where some sub-segments are often thought near saturation
One million visit Printerbase on YouTube
Reseller printer marketing videos attract plenty of site visitors in five years
Art of the abstract
Software-defined networking promises extraordinary benefits but can be risky, as Fleur Doidge discovers
Back to school (again)
Budget cuts have altered the scorecard on education - but one savvy VAR has reinvented itself on schedule. Fleur Doidge reports
Balreed man helps retired Hall Green greyhounds
James Fernihough has a long association with Birmingham greyhound charity
Serving customers focuses Simplify IT on £10m goal
'We're competing against some of the biggest resellers,' says ex-NetApp exec
Deals of £8m for Cheshire services firm Adept4
Strong performance continues for IT and communications provider
Nadella: UK market a hard sell but good on cloud
Microsoft boss suggests that UK sales are an excellent test case for other markets
Belgacom sells Telindus to UK comms specialist
Telent extends reach with takeover of infrastructure services provider
Happy Halloween from Nimans
Zombies, animated skeletons, ghosts and ghouls get into the spirit once again
Channelling managed services in 2014
While many VARs and other IT providers have made a successful transition to MSP status, others are still grappling with the move.
XP still popular with NHS Trusts
Many plan to migrate but have not yet done so, survey suggests
UK beats Western Europe average in Q3 printer sales
New Context figures see UK hold its own - although some countries fared much better
Market expansion for super-stealthy smartphones
Security for mobile devices is an expanding market, according to analyst research