Shipments to improve later this year
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Mimecast boosts business in legal sector
Signs up 50 new legal customers to email services
Microsoft organises big media jamboree in Oxford for Windows 8 push
Infortrend’s EonStor DS gets MS Exchange accreditation
EonStor DS supports up to 20,000 Microsoft Exchange mailboxes
DRAM inventories surge as PC stock builds ahead of Windows 8 release
DRAM market could see further price drops
Double dip recession and more doom for resellers
Ignore the retail optimism: the channel has it tough until next year.
Big names bully the channel
Comment: Software and hardware companies are starting to get beyond themselves.
Salesforce facing massed enemies
After years of successfully taking on the big boys, Salesforce is finding itself being punched back by the likes of Oracle, SAP and Microsoft.
UK PC shipments fall as consumer interest stays sluggish
Weak demand causing stock build up ahead of Windows 8 launch
Datacastle provides data back up through Microsoft Azure
RED mobile back up services made available through Microsoft's cloud platform
VIP Computers finds “little pockets of growth” to help its resellers
PC Gaming has a big role to play says distributor
Microsoft assesses its hosting business
Adds Ingram Micro and Westcoast to its SPLA channel
Advanced 365 sets its heart on the Microsoft Cloud
Shares new certificate with only one percent of Microsoft's partner base.
Technology companies claim they’re unaffected by Indian power outage
Location and power generators mean it's business as usual
PC channel enters a critical period of change
X86 times they are a changing
Channel partners rattled by vendors favouring their own outlets
Resellers hit back
VMware expands virtualisation portfolio with $1.2 billion Nicira buy
Open approach could help vendor further its market lead
Intel shows clear signs it’s got the corporate collywobbles
It dances the jitterbug...
Tablet shipments drop in Q2
Nexus 7 and Surface should see them bounce back
Distributors face uncertain future for PC and notebook shipments
Blame Windows 8 and economic crisis
Overland Storage releases SnapSAN 3000 and 5000 to channel partners
Resellers will get hefty margins for shifting SANs
Microsoft announces channel changes
New Office 365 open license and Windows 8 launch
Big brand competition brings in wheelbarrows of dough for manufacturers
Taiwanese companies enjoy large majority of market boom
Supply chain dubious over Ultrabook price drops
Vendors struggling to obtain cheap components for unit price drops
Avnet pairs up with Microsoft for Star Partner programme
Resellers enticed with training, gold coins
Channel reacts to Microsoft’s Small Business Competency
Partners grumble about parting with more cash
Microsoft’s Surface poses tricky questions for Intel
Keep taking the tablets
Microsoft moves to support partners in the cloud
Channel is struggling but vendor moves to help
Microsoft upsets OEMs by moving into the tablet space
Sources say company will go head-to-head with its partners
Computex sponsors claim Taiwanese show was buzzing
Generates $28 billion
