The key disciplines for becoming a world-class MSP Even for established MSPs, there is still the threat of becoming too comfortable with success and resting on your laurels. Are you taking a ‘one size fits all’ attitude to clients or treating their individual requirements? Are you doing your absolute best to retain staff? Date: 25 Jun 2019 Your Computer
CRN Conference MSP North Attend the 2019 Channel Conference MSP to hear real-life case studies from your peers and meet with leading industry vendors to find out about the latest technology to capitalise on. Date: 26 Jun 2019 The Principal Manchester Oxford St, Manchester M60 7HA, Manchester
Sales & Marketing Awards 2019 The CRN Sales & Marketing Awards recognise and reward the achievements of those individuals and teams that are responsible for making the UK IT channel truly great. Date: 04 Jul 2019 The Montcalm, Marble Arch, London
European Channel Leadership Forum The European Channel Leadership Forum is a unique 2 day conference. It brings together leading CEOs from European VARS and MSPs to discuss pressing issues, technologies and developments facing the industry, and also to network with no agenda. Date: 04 Sep 2019 Sea Containers London 20 Upper Ground, South Bank, London SE1 9PD, London
Services and Outsourcing ANS bosses on how they burned the boats of hardware resale Cisco partner ANS has reinvented itself as a public cloud consultancy. At CRN MSP North, its top executives will be opening up on how they made the 'tough' transition 22 May 2019
Developer Microsoft makes move in marketplace melee Forrester analyst tells CRN there will be 20 cloud marketplace winners as Microsoft unveils new sweeteners for ISVs using AppSource and Azure Marketplace 07 May 2019
Vendor All the key info as IBM stutters in Q1 Big Blue dragged down by legacy businesses again, despite cloud surge 17 April 2019
Vendor A partner's view of Google's Cloud Next conference Cloudreach's Chris Bunch runs through the biggest themes and takeaways from San Francisco 16 April 2019
Services and Outsourcing Microsoft targets public sector with UK datacentre investment Giant adds 'Availability Zones' to UK South region in a move it says will play well in the public sector 09 April 2019
Reseller How to become a Microsoft Azure Expert MSP ANS CTO Andy Barrow takes us through the process of how it joined a limited list of partners to garner the exclusive label 05 March 2019
Research Cloud migration a 'key priority' for most businesses - research Study also reveals that people will be put at heart of their company's digital transformation strategy 12 February 2019
Services and Outsourcing The 35 UK and European providers leading the race to public cloud glory From Computacenter to Capgemini, resellers and IT services providers are investing heavily in upskilling in public cloud. New research from CRN sister title Channel Partner Insight ranks the top 35 European providers based on their standing with six key... 11 February 2019
Research More spent on cloud hardware than traditional infrastructure for the first time - analyst IDC claims spending on cloud infrastructure made up 50.9 per cent of the market in Q3 last year 14 January 2019
Vendor Bar was set 'too low' for Microsoft's direct CSPs, partner claims ahead of programme changes Vendor's changes to programme requirements will reduce number of direct partners 08 August 2018
Vendor Google coy on cloud numbers as revenue rises CEO Sundar Pichai says cloud business is booming, but doesn't 'spoil any surprises' ahead of Google Next event 24 July 2018
Vendor 'This will be our best year ever' - Microsoft channel boss on FY19 Vendor talks up partner relationship at Inspire global conference 18 July 2018
Infrastructure AWS continues public cloud dominance with 40 per cent market share Amazon Web Services holds pole position in all territories, Synergy Research Group claims 22 June 2018
Vendor Cloud migration startup Velostrata sells up, but identity of buyer surprises partners Google makes big cloud infrastructure play with latest acquisition, but Velostrata partners not fully convinced of deal's logic 10 May 2018
Services and Outsourcing Is Google the dark horse of public cloud? With Atos recently selecting Google as its preferred cloud partner for public cloud, Marian McHugh asks if the search giant has what it takes to canter past AWS and Azure 03 May 2018
Vendor The cloud has caused 'pretty negative byproducts' - Cisco Vendor claims four out of five of its customers are in more than one cloud and need help addressing 'massively disrupted' environments 17 April 2018
Infrastructure VMware Cloud on AWS launches in the UK Global channel bosses from VMware and AWS talk CRN through the launch, while first UK partner Softcat praises the solution 08 March 2018
Reseller Which UK partner has become the first firm in the world to deploy Microsoft's Azure Stack? Service provider partners with Lenovo to install the Azure Stack solution in its datacentre 01 December 2017
Security Symantec picks AWS for 'vast majority' of cloud workloads Vendor plumped for Azure for Norton, but goes with AWS for commercial cloud 27 November 2017
Distributor 'We now have as much skin in the game as they do' - Ingram Micro Cloud boss on the changing dynamic with partners Apay Obang-Oyway tells CRN that cloud has brought more transparency to the supply chain 02 November 2017
Research Lack of customer demand biggest cloud blocker for partners - analyst Analyst claims European partners are falling behind US and Japanese counterparts when it comes to selling cloud 24 October 2017
Infrastructure Cloud provider Datacentred shuts down after losing key customer Cloud provider takes website offline and posts message on social media warning customers to migrate from its service within 24 hours 23 October 2017
Vendor Symantec moves to Azure to 'streamline operations' Security vendor moves 105 Norton services to Microsoft's cloud and is reportedly looking to close six datacentres 17 October 2017
Services and Outsourcing Why cloud rivals are laying down their arms and calling a truce After a lengthy battle between public and private cloud players, Tom Wright examines why they have opted to put aside their differences 12 October 2017