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The Challenges and Opportunities for Partners Around BYOD

The mobile revolution is changing the face of both IT and life as we know it. ARN sat down with a group of industry experts (including Moheb Moses from Channel Dynamics) to look at the challenges and opportunities BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and the move of mobility into the enterprise represent. Roundtable: Rush to … Continued

It’s Time for Economic Smarts

The channel would not be immune to another global financial crisis and should look to smart strategies in the face of another downturn, industry executives say. In this article, ARN’s Rimin Dutt and Hafizah Osman talk to various industry experts (including Cam Wayland from Channel Dynamics) about business strategies for partners, in light of the general … Continued

Roundtable: Dealing with Big Data

Big data has emerged in 2012 as a major pain point for many organisations. Feeding on Cloud, mobility and social networking trends has had everyone scrambling to find ways to manage everything that comes in. ARN sat down with some of the dominant players in the space (including Cam Wayland from Channel Dynamics) to talk … Continued

Budget 2012: What Does it Mean for Partners?

The theme of the Federal Government’s 2012/13 budget is restraint. In order to turn a $47.7bn deficit from 2010/11 into a $1.5bn surplus next year and beyond, the Government was forced to put forward a fiscally restrained and short-term budget. In the CRN article, several industry pundits, including Channel Dynamics’ Cam Wayland, weigh in on … Continued

What Really Drives Channel Growth

Recently we were engaged by vendor client to help them work through how they would achieve the growth targets they were given, and of course willingly and gratefully accepted. Therefore I thought it was worth taking a broader channel wide view of what drives growth, not only in resellers but across the entire channel ecosystem … Continued

Getting the Enterprise Ready for BYOD

With the unstoppable growth of Android SmartPhones and Tablets in the consumer and/or prosumer space, there is further pressure on the enterprise to get their Android BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) strategy right. The enterprise cannot afford to be reactive with BYOD, as there are a huge range of benefits (as well as risks) around … Continued

State of the IT Channel: What the Numbers Really Mean

The ARN State of the IT Channel report (published in March 2012 ) collected data from 315 respondents about their observations and insights of the last 12 months, and what we could expect in 2012. In this article, we sit down with ARN’s Matthew Sainsbury and Patrick Budamar to look at the data and try … Continued

ARN IT Industry Awards 2012 Launched at The Ivy

The time has come again. The sixth incarnation of the ARN IT Industry Awards has been launched with the 2012 Judges Lunch at the Ivy restaurant in Sydney. This year, ARN celebrates its 21st birthday at the Awards which for the first time will be a black tie event. And once again, the venue is … Continued