ChannelWeb's top five most read

A rundown of the most-read stories on ChannelWeb last week

1) Micro-P buys consumables distributor Advent Data

Distributor claimed acquisition of Dell, Epson, Oki and Brother distributor will hand it critical mass in supplies market

2) Western Digital makes $4.3bn move on HGST

Channel sources believe move will allow HDD vendor to take on Seagate in enterprise space

3) Trustmarque in charge of own destiny after 2010 revenue fall

York-based reseller reveals it is in talks with two targets in the cloud space

4) Minimal layoffs expected from Steljes restructure

Public sector pressures force distributor rethink with probable redundancies

5) Oracle urged to ditch hardware support policies

Vendor's overhaul of Sun product maintenance policies causes channel to hit out