ChannelWeb's top five most read

A rundown of last week's most-read stories

1) Phoenix's woes continue after 'major' outage

Birstall datacentre falls over just ahead of big cloud services launch

2) Redcentric doubles in size with InTechnology gobble

£65m cash acquisition creates networking and datacentre outfit with scale to rival likes of Daisy and Easynet

3) Phoenix reassures customers after Cisco contract loss

Infrastructure services firm finally speaks out over ejection from Cisco Gold partner programme

4) Dell swings axe on 'small segment' of UK workforce

Licensing staff understood to be at risk

5) Symantec to 'place fewer, bigger bets' in channel shake-up

Security vendor to ask distributors to play a greater role in channel management as it plots 'streamlined' engagement model