In the Studio with CRN: The year of the tablet

We examine the impact of the tablet PC on the channel as the market grows and the number of players proliferate

Since the launch of the Apple iPad little more than a year ago, the tablet has become one of the highest-profile technologies in the IT sector.

For all the talk, the tablet's significance for the channel, and the extent to which resellers are getting involved with the technology, remains a little uncertain. In this roundtable event we examine how the device is seen by end users, which verticals resellers should be targeting and what routes to market are likely to be favoured by the increasing number of tablet vendors.

CRN senior reporter Sam Trendall talks to Paul Bolt from VAR Insight, and two analysts: Salman Chaudhry from Context; and Shaun Collins from CCS Insight.