Our Take
Our take: Have Google and Amazon killed off flexible working for the channel?
With Amazon and Google moving to put limits on remote working, will tech’s most emulated companies cause partners to follow suit? Asks CRN editor Josh Budd
How sustainable is the UK channel? My 3 key takeaways
Doug Woodburn reflects on first month of CRN Tech Impact Campaign and Awards
Performanta deal proves private equities can't get enough of MSPs and MSSPs in 2021
Beech Tree Private Equity invests in Berkshire-based MSSP Performanta
How the UK's top-performing resellers and MSPs have transformed during pandemic...
Doug Woodburn rounds up the key takeaways from CRN Rising Stars 2021
Four key takeaways from Microsoft's Q2
Sales surge for vendor’s cloud offerings including Azure, Dynamics 365 and Office 365
Why threat actors are targeting the channel
The recent attack on Exclusive Networks is only the latest in a series which has seen cybersecurity vendors, distributors and MSPs suffer breaches to their systems. CRN asks why the channel is seeing itself become a popular target for cybercriminals
OUR TAKE: 5 key issues facing UK channel bosses in 2021
CRN editor Josh Budd unpicks the big decisions resellers will have to make in 2021
Why the return to offices is more difficult than the radical shift to remote working
Tom Wright attempts to unpack the channel's return to work.
Our take: Lockdown from the CRN perspective
Tom Wright talks through how the team at CRN has adapted to live in lockdown
What AWS, Google and Microsoft results have told us about the cloud market
Tom Wright looks at the implications of the big three's earnings reports
How can the channel step up on sustainability?
Sustainability set to take centre stage for the channel in the 2020s, CRN's Doug Woodburn argues
Our take: The trends that will shape the channel in the Twenties
Tom Wright talks through some of the themes that CRN expects to be prominent next year and beyond
All the moving parts of Xerox's proposed HP takeover
Tom Wright considers the factors at play in the possible merger of two tech titans
Latest results from AWS, Google and Microsoft: what we learned
The latest batch of earnings reports shine a light on the state of the public cloud market
Private equities are hot for MSPs right now - here's why
The allure of managed services providers extends beyond recurring revenues, according to CRN editor Doug Woodburn
My CRN Women in Channel shortlisting experience
Doug Woodburn lifts the lid on the initial judging phase for the 2019 CRN Women in Channel Awards
Why Insight's curious acquisition of PCM might make sense
Tom Wright analyses the key facts and figures behind the deal that will see Insight snap up its US counterpart
Are distributors right to say they are no longer broadliners?
After attending three of the biggest disties' events in recent weeks, Marian McHugh sums up the lay of the distribution landscape
What impact would a Mitel-Avaya merger have on the channel?
Tom Wright explores the rationale behind the rumoured merger of Mitel and Avaya, while a top partner says that more comms consolidation is inevitable
What successful channel entrepreneurs have in common
After questioning 10 tech entrepreneurs about what made their businesses successful, Doug Woodburn asks what idiosyncrasies and quirks they have in common
Five objections resellers will encounter when selling DaaS
DaaS is being branded as a PC market game changer, but here are the main barriers to adoption channel partners are likely to meet when pitching the model
HP Reinvent: Houston, we have a problem
HP's partner conference was a largely positive affair despite one glaring concern, Tom Wright reports
Top five vendor-on-vendor dust-ups
After Nutanix's and VMware's public fallout over marketing campaigns and emails, CRN picks our favourite examples of vendors getting catty