UK firms too complacent regarding GDPR compliance, says new research
Channel Research
Channelling the Future of IT
It’s time to leave the hype at the door and look at which new tech will drive real business value for your customers
Aging Channel Facing Recruitment Crisis
40 percent of the channel workforce is set to retire in the next ten years. Who will replace them?
Commercial Notebook Sales Grow Amid Falling PC Sales
Notebooks deliver boost to commercial sector; Windows 10 adoption continues to rise
Channel Signals Continued Change to Sales Model
Another survey highlights channel confidence; supports shift to OPEX
IT Pros Spending Too Much Time Keeping Lights On
Dimension Data: IT departments lagging when it comes to digitising the workplace
Channel Facing Tough New Competition says CompTIA
IT channel dealing with new market entrants, shifting business models and grey hair, says CompTIA
High-Growth MSPs Offer More Services Than Rivals
Global Kaseya report highlights MSP market growth; successful firms offer wider portfolio of services
Channel Firms Must Work To Catch Up To Cloud
Security fears and inadequate infrastructure investments also shake IT confidence, says new report
Most SMEs are not formalising cloud strategies
The North East and Wales are said to have the highest number of strategic cloud laggards
Most resellers will look to hardware sales in 2020
While on-demand cloud use is widening the data has to be stored somewhere says the channel
Gartner: EMEA IT spending to see 2 percent increase in 2017
But Western Europe PC shipments will decline by 3 percent says the analyst house
Almost all resellers have enjoyed growth over the year
Acquiring new talent, offering cloud services and marketing initiatives have helped matters shows research
WLAN market sales up but enterprise leaders lose share
Cisco, Aruba-HPE and Brocade-Ruckus all lose market share in business wireless market, as smaller players make hay
CIF: Channel needs more vendor support in selling cloud
Migration, contracts, SLAs and technical support are still big issues for many resellers
Large format printer market ups shipments and sales
HP Inc shipped 46 percent of LFPs globally in the second quarter of 2016 says IDC
IT departments admit they don’t understand business
Continuing confusion caused by the on-demand economy makes it harder for channel to do business
3D printing revenues to balloon to $35.4bn says IDC
The consumer 3D printing market has already matured says the analyst house
Firms lack skills to adopt IoT and big data analytics
IT decision makers know about the potential advantages of key technologies but lack the deployment skills
Global tablet market dives in second quarter says IDC
Vendors begin to refocus their product lines and consumers hold off on purchases
Security spending not a priority for UK SMEs
Almost two-thirds will not spend on better online security over the next 12 months despite the threats
Only 8 percent of MSPs automate their performance
Engineers are not empowered to escape routine tasks and focus on value-added services for the business
CompTIA-certified IT pros earn an average of £60,000 a year
Over 2m CompTIA certifications have been awarded globally so far, including widespread take-up in the channel
Brexit fails to dampen cloud spending says analyst IDC
Public cloud spending is taking the lion's share though says the analyst house
UK SITS market to reach £50bn by 2019 says analyst
Digital transformation and cloud to dominate proceedings, eventually, says TechMarketView
No panic in IT recruitment despite Brexit says Harvey Nash
Research since the result last week shows most IT hiring companies are just getting on with it
Brexit: We’re all doomed on IT spending claims Canalys
A 15 percent spending decline in 2017 is being forecast by the esteemed channel analyst, we'll see
UK spends £3.1bn on fixing or replacing broken gadgets
But TSB research shows that the majority of device users aren't insured against the damage
Field service to become prime sales driver by 2018
Maintenance and service is the earner to go after as margins rapidly get lower at the point of sale
SMEs suffer as councils fail to adopt digital procurement
Two years on from the National Procurement Strategy local authorities are still laggards in the digital marketplace
