ChannelWeb's top five most read

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

1) EMC hands enterprise sector over to channel

Storage goliath gives UK partners the run of 850 large enterprise accounts as it bets on the channel to help it attain ambitious growth goal

2) HP gears up VARs for 'streamlined' global channel scheme

Education and simplification are the watchwords as vendor talks through the changes to the PartnerONE programme

3) Comparetheware.com sniffs out reseller recruits

New IT search portal aims to "put the market in touch with the channel"

4) Acer: We've learned from past mistakes

Vendor claims channel inventory levels now down to a month in the UK

5) Bullish Trustmarque open to "transformational" acquisition

After posting strong annual numbers, York-based VAR says it will consider opportunistic acquisition of similar-sized firm in 2012