Opinion

Opinion

• The bland leading the bland

  Maybe technology has a role to play in helping customers find out what a solution can really deliver argues Nick Booth  Continue Reading

• Are resellers ready for the race to multi-cloud?

  Multi-cloud is here to stay and could offer resellers a chance to stand out from the crowd if they can rise to the challenge  Continue Reading

• Dell builds on the incumbency programme

  The flurry of announcements coming out of the partner shindig in Las Vegas have included indications, picked up by Billy MacInnes, that the vendor is building on past work it has carried out with partners  Continue Reading

• Park Place Technologies and GuardiCore go on hunts for UK partners

  The channel is very much in demand and Nick Booth has come across a couple of firms keen to build up their reseller relationships  Continue Reading

• If you hated GDPR you may like the African Continental Free Trade Area

  For those struggling with GDPR there is a new $2.5 trillion target market that Nick Booth thinks is worth looking into  Continue Reading

• The difference between profits and revenues

  With numbers thrown around making revenue look like the main achievement Billy MacInnes turns his attention to profits  Continue Reading

• GDPR: securing data is more than just a technology fix, it’s about understanding human behaviour

  Neal Lillywhite, VP EMEA Channel at Forcepoint, argues GDPR is about people and processes as well as technology  Continue Reading

• Data: why should businesses invest in the new currency?

  Ian Belton, Sales Director Analytics EMEA, Tech Data looks at why data is so important and the reasons why money should be spent on looking after it  Continue Reading

• IT departments, LOB and more to come?

  The channel is having to get used to lines of business spending more than the traditional IT buyers but Billy MacInnes wonders if change will stop there  Continue Reading

• Giving the NHS some IT treatment

  There are plenty of things that could help the NHS save money by using IT finds Nick Booth  Continue Reading

• GDPR: Is time running out or is the clock just starting?

  Ian Kilpatrick, EVP Cyber Security for Nuvias Group, looks at whether there are still channel opportunities with GDPR.  Continue Reading

• A latte and a breach?

  Coffee shops and hotels can be places where wifi can be compromised and Billy MacInnes has been looking into the issue over a brew  Continue Reading

• Brexit Tracker helps chart the confidence

  In these uncertain days Nick Booth is interested to find a technology that can give a little bit more clarity  Continue Reading

• Zuckerberg could become a problem for Facebook

  There are echoes of Steve Jobs at Apple with Mark Zuckerberg's tenure at Facebook thinks Billy MacInnes  Continue Reading

• Twilio says it's time you gave your listening muscles a Flex

  Most corporations use omni-channels for talking but they’ve got too little time for listening. Nick Booth thinks there’s plenty of scope for improvement  Continue Reading

• The importance of Tech Data's relationship with Apple

  Apple is the distributor's biggest vendor partner, which got Billy Macinnes wondering why that will come as a surprise to so many of us  Continue Reading

• Stopping future “beasts from the east”grinding business to a halt

  Phil Jones, managing director of Brother UK discusses what resellers can offer their clients to cope with disruption  Continue Reading

• Dell is deadly serious about the channel

  Things have changed at the once mighty direct giant and Billy MacInnes comments on a firm now heavily targeted on the channel  Continue Reading

• Women in Tech – How long can we wait?

  Inspiring the next generation into IT is clearly important, but says Zoe Cunningham, Managing Director, Softwire, the skills gap and gender imbalance will never be addressed without some radical thinking  Continue Reading

• Who will save us from the privacy invaders?

  Soon our most intimate details - our genomes - will be on open display, as liberalisation turns our private information into a global peep show for everyone from fraudsters to pharmaceuticals warns Nick Booth  Continue Reading

• Is it worth taking out a file on WekaIO? It seems to be disrupting the data industry

  The artificial intelligence data player is on the hunt for channel partners and Nick Booth thinks the firm is worth a closer look  Continue Reading

• The rise of the millennials

  The rise of millennials will drive disruption and innovation in the channel points out Steve Bailey, commercial director of Agilitas  Continue Reading

• Setting up a business is like jumping out of a plane at 12,000 feet

  When he decided to set up his own business the IBC Group it reminded Ian Birch of the feelings he had when skydiving  Continue Reading

• Innovate or die?

  The well worn phrase has Billy MacInnes wondering if it is still as popular as it once was in the channel  Continue Reading

• New £655,000 Breast Cancer Care app inspires people on many levels

  Finding out about the latest innovation in support for cancer sufferers has inspired Nick Booth on many levels  Continue Reading

• Hugging hardware is outdated - the new trend is cuddling a cloud

  The world is changing and as Nick Booth finds out after a chat with Arcserve the days of stroking the tin is coming to an end  Continue Reading

• The price of happiness

  What happens when people are happy in their work? Or rather, what happens when too many people are too happy in their work?  Continue Reading

• There will be change but the channel is constant

  Plenty of vendors are changing their partner programmes but as Billy MacInnes looks at recent examples he concludes all are looking for a long future relationship with partners  Continue Reading

• Are Claromentis and Iconfirm putting in enough decent crosses for their strikers?

  Dealing with customer data is already a challenge and as Nick Booth finds out it is going to get even harder with GDPR coming  Continue Reading

• There is no Margin for Error in Azure it’s Strictly Bill Room

  Nick Booth finds some inspiration in what Microsoft partner Astel Systems has been doing to deliver cloud services  Continue Reading

• Why the UK’s Industrial Strategy needs the channel

  Ben Boswell, VP Europe for World Wide Technology, discusses the role of channel players in boosting innovation in the UK, particularly post-Brexit  Continue Reading

• The rise of the robots

  The robots are coming for jobs and Billy MacInnes wonders what that means for us all  Continue Reading

• Can ECS help the big banks deal with GDPR?

  GDPR is looming and ECS is doing its bit to make sure financial institutions are ready for the data regulations  Continue Reading

• Continuing in the face of disaster

  Paul Blore, managing director at Netmetix, cloud network specialists, writes about the importance of business continuity and how businesses can best implement it  Continue Reading

• Four tips for successful digital transformation

  Nicola Downing, CFO, Ricoh Europe, has some advice for those looking to help customers carry out a successful digital transformation project  Continue Reading

• In praise of the power of partnerships

  Some of the most famous partnerships have changed the world, just look at Lennon and McCartney, and the same can be true in the tech world Billy MacInnes discovers  Continue Reading

• Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse

  Those classic lines might be coming true in a way that the author never originally intended notes Billy MacInnes  Continue Reading

• What happened to the HP machine?

  Anyone remember the HP announcement about 'the machine'? Billy MacInnes does and he wonders just what has happened to the grand project  Continue Reading

• Stay flexible – how to benefit from the rise of the softphone

  Softphones are popular, when the channel can get customers to adopt them, and Paul Clarke, channel manager, 3CX, has some advice on how to improve the odds of that happening  Continue Reading

• Blame for NHS's £12 billion IT disaster identified

  No evidence of corruption has been found in the NHS IT cock up that has cost the UK taxpayer £12.8 billion.  Continue Reading

• Is your business prepared for the zombie apocalypse?

  The BBC is today reporting that Leicester City Council has been forced to admit it is unprepared for an attack by hordes of flesh-eating zombies following a Freedom of Information request.  Continue Reading

• Government has a role to play in fighting piracy

  There will have been few eyebrows raised at the announcement that the UK software piracy figures have stayed the same at 27% with a quarter of the country using unlicensed products.  Continue Reading

• "We're not a broadliner anymore," says C2000 boss. So what are you?

  Computer 2000 is not a generalist distributor. Has everybody got that? You at the back, did you hear it?  Continue Reading