UBM Channel's CRN Unveils Investigative Tablet-Only Content Highlighting Disaster Recovery Best Practices

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Channel's CRN today unveiled a new series of featured content exclusively available the CRN app for iPad, CRN Tech News. The series will highlight 10 tips for VARs on how to prepare for things such as illness, death, natural disasters, fires and other emergency situations through exclusive firsthand accounts. Divided up across five days, CRN Tech News subscribers will have access to in-depth articles, videos and slideshows focused on disaster recovery and business continuity. To subscribe to CRN Tech News, visit the Apple app store.

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The exclusive videos will feature channel leaders including: 

• Mike Semel, a business continuity expert discussing the need to have a business continuity plan in place and what should be included in the plan
• John Matanzani, a Joplin VAR discussing the tornado, the destruction to his business and where he is one year later
• Ed Corriea, CEO of Sagacent, gives a candid interview on his recent health crisis and what it taught him about structuring his business
• Arlin Sorenson, CEO of Heartland Technology Solutions, talks about Hands That Give, a program for VARs Helping VARs in time of crisis   

The CRN Tech news app was designed for mobile IT professionals who need access to mobile content and tools to better run their business.  It was also designed for investigative news fans interested in learning more about the IT channel's big picture. Each week, app subscribers will have access to in-depth reports exclusively from the CRN Tech News app. Articles will cover Solution Provider salaries, piracy issues, big government giveaways, among others.

About UBM Channel
UBM Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With more than 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives, managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. UBM Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about UBM Channel, visit us at http://www.ubmchannel.com.  Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ubmchannel.

UBM plc (www.ubm.com)
UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

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