Technology and Trends
The tech adoption saving UK businesses £4.6bn a year
Fintech awareness rockets as firms in UK change their approach
Will AWS move spark a wider per-second billing trend?
World is heading towards per-millisecond billing, partners say as AWS brings its billing model into line with Azure and Google
Datacentre spending now dominated by cloud
Traditional non-cloud datacentre equipment spending has plunged by 18 per cent in the last two years, according to analyst Synergy Research
Distributor: memory shortage has changed landscape 'significantly'
Channel attempting to handle global shortage of memory chips
It will cost you £1,149, but it cost Apple billions within seconds
Apple's share price plunges after botched iPhone X launch
Are 'box-shifting salespeople' holding resellers back?
Channel consultancy believes specialist sales staff are needed to move from box-shifting reseller to managed services VAR
Misco calls for end to gender divide in IT industry
VAR demands industry gender balance to fuel UK innovation
Is the government finally planning an EdTech overhaul?
Seven years after the demise of Becta, the government could be looking to support technology in education again
Tech firm pledges £1m to clear 'heartbreaking' student debt
'I hope other tech firms copy us,' company CEO tells CRN as he takes on UK's spiralling student debt
Five things we've learned this month
July has taught us that Microsoft is betting on hybrid cloud, VARs are lawyering up over GDRP and that the MSP model is being questioned
Resellers should appoint 'AI czars', says analyst
Moor Insights and Strategy's Patrick Moorhead talks up AI opportunity for channel following deal between Nvidia and Baidu
Queen's Speech references new data protection law and digital charter
Legislative programme unveiled by Queen gives tech community plenty to chew over, despite being heavily focused on delivering Brexit
HP's UK boss says rise of millennials will force channel's hand on sustainable IT
George Brasher urges partners to get on board with device-as-a-service and other sustainable IT initiatives in preparation for change in IT decision-maker demographics
The digital transformation challenge
A new CRN whitepaper, commissioned by Red Hat, examines to what extent the channel is ready to satisfy end-users' digital transformation needs
Which UK channel firms have the fastest growing international businesses?
Resellers, service providers and distributors acknowledged among UK firms with the fastest-growing international revenue
Voice assistant robot sales come to life
Driven by advances in AI, sales of voice-based assistant robots made up nearly half of total service robot sales last year, according to TrendForce
Why setting off in the right direction is critical to successful transformation
SPONSORED BY HPE AND VMWARE: Many businesses are looking to digitally transform but not going about it in the right way, according to an IDC report backed by HPE and VMware
Selling without a sales force
A number of emerging technology resellers are breaking from the norm by employing only technical staff. Tom Wright asks what's behind the trend, and how it is possible for a reseller to function without any salespeople
Five things we've learned this month
The key take aways from the last 30 days in the IT channel
Whose transformation is it anyway?
SPONSORED BY HPE AND VMWARE: End-user customers looking to digitally transform face many challenges and to help them make the journey successfully, resellers need to undergo a transformation of their own
Can UK resellers learn from their Nordic peers on environmental and social sustainability?
CEO of sustainability certification body tells CRN there is an opportunity for UK suppliers to take a leaf from firms in his native Sweden and win business on a sustainability agenda
The great datacentre sell-off
Five years ago, everyone wanted to own a datacentre, but - as this week's Verizon and CenturyLink divestments show - that trend may now be in reverse
Smartphone industry not dead - IDC
Growth still exists in smartphone sector, Q1 data shows
Dave the Dealer's April musings
Bedroom aids go bad, TP goes techy, bots go beefy, and the biblical King of Israel goes in for some new WiFi
