Channel round-up: Q1

A roundup of the biggest news from the first quarter of this year, available exclusively to CRN Essential subscribers

The channel barely stopped to take a breath in Q1 this year, with acquisitions, bankruptcies, security breaches and alleged spying just some of the issues to grab headlines in the IT industry between January and March.

With the rate of breaking news showing no signs of slowing down, CRN has aggregated all of the major stories to have impacted the channel in the first quarter of this year and published the information in an easy-to-digest PDF.

The first edition of 2018 includes news from Apple, Cisco, Dell and Microsoft, as well commentary on wider socio-political issues such as the tension between Russia and the west, and Facebook's data harvesting scandal.

The full report is only accessible to CRN Essential subscribers and can be viewed here.