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September 2026
- AWS puts Moonshot’s Kimi K3 on Bedrock with US and global routing only
- Scotland requires impact assessments for data centers above 50MW
- Orca Security's new partner program rewards net retention
- Insight wins consultancy role in Scotland’s AI adoption program
- Only one in 10 sure of meeting 24-hour breach reporting, VinciWorks finds
- NCSC sets out the standard for assured red-team providers
- Cohere signs deal to combine with Germany’s Aleph Alpha
- VodafoneThree switches on Ericsson 5G core for network slicing
- Softcat agrees $1.05bn deal for GDT and raises its profit outlook
- Oracle partner de Novo names Lynette Slater chief executive
- Matrix IT’s returning founder is Onecom’s bet on people over brand
- Whitehall’s insourcing unit is a pricing test for mid-tier suppliers
- Redcentric’s pure-play year shows what the acquisitions were hiding
- TD Synnex’s record quarter and the SMB channel that is nowhere on AI
- The £20bn sovereign AI letter is a bid for the market it describes
- Sky’s £38 for 1.6Gbps puts the business broadband premium on notice
- The altnets won at Ofcom, and the channel paid the bill
- Bytes lifts its FY27 outlook as costs hold back operating profit
- Arctic Wolf opens a sensorless MDR tier to MSPs only
- Vectra AI launches Ascent partner program with three levels
- Capgemini sees $230bn of bank payments revenue at risk from stablecoins
- Google sets a mid-2034 end date for ChromeOS updates
- NetApp plans to buy Manchester AI storage startup PEAK:AIO
- Agentforce flaws let a poisoned web lead leak CRM data over DNS
- Kiteworks tells every customer to switch off over a zero-day warning
- Citrix patches eight NetScaler flaws as two zero-days are exploited
- NatWest puts UK business AI use at 44% and finds size beats region
- Nvidia moves AI agent containment out of the model and into the silicon
- Meta opens an enterprise AI arm with MongoDB’s chief executive in charge
- Cyber Essentials passes 61,000 certificates, mostly renewals
- Digital Space promotes Wendy Broughton to chief sales officer
- Cirata warns 2026 breakeven may slip as one partner’s outlook changes
- CyberMaxx buys Avertium to add Microsoft security skills
- Sophos survey says MSPs act as CISO for almost half their customers
- Nebius raises on-demand GPU prices from 1 October
- HubSpot adds ChatGPT Ads campaigns to its CRM in beta
- Openreach prices its PSTN safety net and adds broadband retention
- IBM buys UK defense security consultancy Logiq Consulting
- TD Synnex posts record quarter and pitches AI factories to the channel
- Softcat, TD Synnex and Westcon-Comstor make UK tech workplaces list
- Raspberry Pi’s early memory buy pays off as first-half revenue rises 90%
- Microsoft puts advanced Copilot work on metered credits
- Revolut pilots facial recognition checkout with 0% merchant fees
- One letter a year: UK tech employers’ Employment Rights Act test
- Whitehall’s Russia briefings must not stop at the boardroom door
- The Storm-3168 Azure attack is about credential hygiene, not agentic AI
- Agent sprawl: the hard part is the count, not the agent
- AlphaSense’s 25-fold token surge is the new meter for channel margin
- Meta gives Prospect access to 5,000 UK staff ahead of October law change
- UK IT leaders want out of US clouds but only 15% have moved, Civo finds
- Nscale’s Loughton AI site slips as 315 data centers queue for the grid
- Customers before capacity: what a UK chip fab can teach distributors
- If the AI can’t trace its answer to the ledger, it’s a demo
- AI writes the code now: the software bill of materials is the control
- Channel firms need a real CFO long before the buyer turns up
- Smaller AI models put the spend back where partners earn margin
- Top-end AI and data architect pay in London rises 20%, says Michael Page
- Seven UK banks put tokenized sterling deposits into live customer use
- Egress founders return with $16m to police what AI agents do
- The £26,000 apprentice is still the cheapest engineer an MSP will hire
- UK workers pay £958m a year for their own GenAI tools, Deloitte finds
- AI-ready ERP is a slogan until someone unifies the data
- Nozomi’s independence promise is one partners should hold it to
- Microsoft and the Met dismantle EvilTokens, an AI phishing kit for hire
- The NCSC has told MSSPs what an ‘autonomous SOC’ is really worth
- TMU’s two-name brand is a merger decision deferred, not made
- Win the user first: the channel should ride the pull, not fight it
- Every channel board should be able to name tomorrow’s chief executive
- Eurostar puts an app in ChatGPT as AI traffic outruns bookings
- Cabling bottlenecks leave a third of data centers with wasted AI hardware
- Airband at £4.6m: altnet consolidation is a fire sale, not a merger
- Advania’s interim year was a hiring window, not a holding pattern
- Computacenter’s record half: the AI money is in America, not the UK
- Salesforce’s new editions end the add-on sale partners lived on
- The Bank of England has made AI supplier concentration your problem
- Distology’s second backer is a bet that vendors prefer specialists
August 2026
July 2026
- The reseller’s job description changed on Ingram Micro’s earnings call
- Beyond the seat: what Nadella’s consumption pivot means for CSP partners
- The founder who stays is what private equity is really buying
- Openreach can now grow without you: renegotiate value, not volume
- Co-CEOs are a merger sedative, not a leadership model
- The most inflated role in tech
June 2026
April 2026
March 2026
- Why Microsoft Copilot should be a priority for UK SMEs
- Agents are optimizing AI workflows, but humans remain key to ROI
- Why inclusive hiring practices expose the talent shortage as a myth
- Why purpose-driven leadership is the future of business
- Why creative bravery in marketing is your last real competitive advantage
- The business technology strategy every leader needs in 2026
- What it takes to maintain culture and pace after a merger
- Systems don’t run companies, people do – and AI won’t change that
- Microsoft licensing errors are quietly costing UK businesses thousands
- Ex-Candy Crush chair Mel Morris on why efficiency could decide the AI race
- How MSPs should prepare for the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill
- How Lenovo 360 is reshaping the UKI channel around customer outcomes
- Cybersecurity training still doesn’t stick, and that’s a leadership problem
- Why companies with invisible executives are quietly losing growth
- ‘Everyone wins’: Dialpad’s channel director on AI-powered communications
- Punching above your weight by focusing on specialist value in the channel
- Microsoft Copilot is changing how cybersecurity leaders think about risk
- Meeting surging full fiber demand as rural connectivity expectations rise
- The channel is quietly driving SME digital transformation in the UK
- MSPs are still missing the Microsoft Copilot opportunity
- The PSTN switch-off creates a compressed window for IT and telecoms partners
- DeepMind CEO questions OpenAI’s fast move to ads in ChatGPT
February 2026
- Why strong leaders act before they have perfect information
- Why Jay Janes left a £275,000 executive role to build xpandly
- Extreme Networks refocuses partner program on predictable rebates and MSPs
- Distology Tenable deal signals shift toward value-led distribution
- Nebula Global Services ties partner loyalty to ESG outcomes
- Broadcom channel chief outlines partner opportunity in private cloud and AI
- Pulsant invests £10m in AI-ready data hall in Milton Keynes
- Cisco’s Joachim Mason on aligning partner goals with customer outcomes
- Pure Storage adds Ambassador tier and solution designations for partners
- Dell raises incentives for partners that co-invest in growth
- IBM’s Krishna urges partners to start early on enterprise AI
- Value-based selling is redefining partner growth in cloud communications
January 2026
- CrowdStrike’s Kurtz calls 2026 the breakout year for the agentic SOC
- CrowdStrike CEO calls 2026 the ‘breakout year’ for agentic SOCs
- Nutanix pitches hybrid multi-cloud for a ‘decade of platform wars’
- Microsoft Copilot is the door most MSPs are walking past
- Nvidia’s channel chief sees neoclouds as the next partner opportunity
- Beyond connectivity: Gamma’s Rob Kittler on the trusted IoT advisor