Ten years of Top VARs: Read every edition here
How has the UK IT channel changed over the last decade?
When CRN launched Top VARs in 2011, Microsoft Azure had only just been launched, BYOD and data sovereignty were among the key talking points, and edge computing just meant having your laptop too close to the side of your desk.
To mark the ten-year anniversary of Top VARs, we have dug out the previous editions of the report for your delectation.
A perusal of ten years of Top VARs shows just how dramatically the industry landscape has shifted over the last decade.
Four of the original top ten from 2011 no longer exist, at least not in the same guise.
Reflecting both the growth of the channel, as well as the improvement in our data, the top 100's revenues have grown rapidly, from £9.5bn in 2013 to £17.9bn in 2021 (no data exists before this). The revenue threshold for making the top 100 has more than trebled from £12.4m to £44m, meanwhile.
Top VARs digs into a prevailing theme each year. For the last two years, we've gone to town on the pandemic.
In 2019, we zoned in on the extent to which resellers were being disaggregated by cloud, and a year earlier we probed whether the introduction of the V.A.R. in top-flight football was causing a definitional crisis for the channel. GDPR was the topic de jour in 2017 and the death of cold calling the hot-button issue in 2016. Showing just how quickly trends come and go, netbooks and BYOD were among the talking points further back in the archives.
You can read every edition below, with the exception of Top VARs 2012 (which despite our best efforts we failed to locate).