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IT Firm Head Apologises For ‘Joke’ Suggesting Labour Voter Redundancies
Storm Technologies Boss said email claiming Labour voters would be let go if business slowed down was just banter
Google, Facebook, Microsoft Lead Growing Appetite For Enterprise-Grade SSDs
Intel, the current leader in supplying enterprise storage disks, is feeling the pressure from Samsung
UK SMBs Fined £900,000 For Using Unlicensed Software
Damages and legalisation costs for companies caught with unlicensed software increasing year-on-year
HPE: We Lost Our Way Before Meg Whitman HP Inc Split
HPE’s EMEA MD credits CEO Meg Whitman with turning company around and giving it a clarity of vision
Cross Channel: New VMware UK Channel Chief, IT Pros Distracted By Support
All the news from the world of the IT channel, including VMware changes and the abosorption of EuroCloud UK by Cloud Industry Forum
Cross Channel: Vodafone Gets 100 New Partners & Dell EMC Clarifies Partner Status
All the latest news from the world of the IT channel as 2016 comes to a close
Cross Channel: Sales Predictions & Smartphone VR Challenges
All the latest news from the world of the channel, including an IBM Cloud customer win
Cross Channel: Support Firm Struggles And Cloud Storage Changes
All the latest news from the world of the channel, including blanked reseller growth
Microsoft Says It Has Fixed Yet Another Office 365 Outage
Connectivity issues affect Office 365 access across Europe, despite rising Brexit prices for Microsoft cloud services
Broadcom Buys Networking Firm Brocade For £4.5bn But Will Sell Off Ruckus Wireless
The whole of Brocade’s IP Networking business is being sold off as Broadcom concentrates on supporting its chip business
Big Four Of AWS, Google, IBM & Microsoft Azure Continue To Dominate Cloud
New research suggests the big four have no intention of letting cloud lead slip
Cross Channel: VMware Cloud Opportunities And Canon Partner Apprenticeships
All the latest news from the world of the channel, including VMware’s cloud partner posturing
Cross Channel: Tax Dodging Consultants And Red Hat Reselling Expanded
Distribution deals and acquisitions were the flavour of the week in the channel world
Cross Channel: Work In IT? Maybe It’s Time To Move North
All the latest from the world of the IT channel. This week: The north-south wage gap in IT is spending and Pulsant goes charitable
Cross Channel: Avast & AVG Become One And Falling Fortunes For Capita
All the latest news from the world of the channel, including Avast’s purchase of AVG
Cross Channel: HP Printers Reject Unofficial Ink, SMBs Want Local Partners
All the latest from the world of the channel. This week: Oracle, Cloud, HP, and printergate
Cross Channel: Public Cloud Growth And Extreme Networks Purchase
All the latest news from the world of the channel, including a major revamp of HPE's UK channel programme
Cross Channel: Security Spend Isn’t Guarantee Of Success
The latest news from the world of the IT channel. This week sees security spend in the spotlight, differences between IT and business and an Enfield Council deal
Cross Channel: IBM Seeks EMC Customers And G-Cloud Concerns For SMBs
The latest news from the world of the IT channel. This week sees IBM making a flash storage push, a G-Cloud supplier express concerns and NHS contract win
Kaminario Flash Is Now MongoDB Certified
MongoDB Enterprise Certified Solution Partnership plugs flash into NoSQL
Report: Samsung To Sell Refurbished Smartphones
Samsung plans refurbished device programme to offload high-end devices returned in one-year upgrade scheme
Cross Channel: Apple iPhone Sales Dive And Cisco Cuts 5,500 Jobs
The latest news from the world of the IT channel. This week sees Cisco cut jobs and Juniper Networks updating its partner programme
Cross Channel: Intel Continues PC Retreat, Samsung Beats Apple In UK Phone Sales
Also: Amazon slammed by ASA for delivery charges, and SAP ups channel sales focus
Cross Channel: Flash Too Expensive, Windows 10 Adoption In Enterprise
Also: News on government contracts and a channel campaign to improve the UK's broadband
Cross Channel: YouGov Deploys Pure Storage And Intel Posts Reduced Profit
Also in the channel this week: how Tech Data is ready to hold channel’s hand for IoT
Cross Channel: Dixons Deploys IBM Cloud As Microsoft Launches Surface As A Service
Hybrid is the way forward for electronics retailer as Dixons moves to IBM UK data centres
Cross Channel: Dust Settles On Brexit As Cloud Spending Continues
Companies find positives in Brexit and AVG gets snapped up by Avast
British Software Vendors Could Lose AWS Business After Brexit
AWS Marketplace is now accepting software sellers based in the EU, but AWS doesn’t know how Brexit will affect UK companies
Microsoft Revamps Enterprise Software Licensing
Microsoft Enterprise Advantage makes an appearance in 2017 with other changes also coming to make software purchases more flexible and cost effective