CompTIA Blog

  • Four Ways MSPs and Vendors Can Become Business BFFs

    Nov 9, 2016, 20:55 PM by Samantha Ciaccia
    The importance of vendors courting their partners means more than ever now. With that in mind, here are four ways managed service providers and vendors can become best friends forever!
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  • Learn About the CompTIA UK Channel Community’s Busy 2016

    Nov 8, 2016, 21:05 PM by Jim Hamilton
    From roadshows to the security initiative, 2016 has been a busy year. Read a roundup of the highlights of the UK Channel community.
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  • Celebrating Veterans Day With Three IT Pro Stories

    Nov 8, 2016, 19:16 PM by Matthew Stern
    In celebration of Veterans Day, we’re taking a look back at three of three military veterans whose time in the service led them into successful careers in IT – with some help from CompTIA certifications.
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  • CompTIA Community and Council Leaders Focus their Efforts on 2017 and Beyond at Planning Meeting

    Nov 8, 2016, 17:38 PM by Annette Taber
    CompTIA is a true, member lead organization. Those tech industry professionals play a major role in driving initiatives and strategy, ensuring that the association focuses its resources on the right things at the right time. That’s how a trade association works. From the board of directors to peer community and advisory council chair positions, CompTIA members are leading the way. That was readily apparent at the recent meeting in Kansas City, MO where a large contingent of these industry professionals gathered to shape their groups' plans for 2017.
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  • Learn How Smartly-Deployed Tech Strategy and Solutions Kept GreatAmerica Running Through a Flood

    Nov 4, 2016, 21:00 PM by Matthew Stern
    Towards the end of September, Cedar Rapids, Iowa experienced a flood that displaced GreatAmerica Financial Services from its office and put its business continuity plan to the test. Their story offers solution providers an instructive inside look into the mechanics of disaster recovery planning.
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  • Election Tech: The IT Solutions Behind Voting

    Nov 4, 2016, 19:17 PM by Natalie Hope McDonald
    Every year, Everyone Counts, a software solution provider with U.S. headquarters in La Jolla, Calif., ensures that voters around the world that are legally entitled to vote can do so securely.
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  • ChannelTrends: Cloud is the New Electricity

    Nov 2, 2016, 19:21 PM by Brian Sherman
    Businesses are becoming highly dependent on the cloud today. So much so that many of the activities they’re involved with come to a grinding halt when it’s not available. For IT services providers that's both a blessing and a curse, depending on their capabilities and bandwidth. What are the real opportunities and concerns?
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  • CompTIA Submits Report on Foreign Barriers to Tech Trade

    Nov 2, 2016, 18:21 PM by Stefanie Holland
    On October 27, CompTIA submitted a report to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative as it works to compile the annual National Trade Estimate (NTE) on foreign barriers to trade. CompTIA used this opportunity to provide the federal government with information on the foreign barriers member companies face when exporting their products and services.
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  • The Channel and Cloud Computing: Take Two

    Nov 2, 2016, 16:40 PM by Carolyn April
    Is it time for a cloud reality check in the channel? Have you considered if this technology model is having a positive or negative impact on your business? According to the CompTIA 6th Annual State of the Channel study, there are no black or white answers. In fact, the latest research actually exposes more confusion than conclusion.
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  • CyberSeek Tracks Explosion in Cybersecurity Demand

    Nov 1, 2016, 15:11 PM by Michelle Lange
    CyberSeek is an incisive, data-driven heat map and interactive graphics to break down career paths, salaries and hiring trends in cybersecurity. Get hyperlocal intel on IT security jobs with CyberSeek’s Heat Map and Interactive Graphics.
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  • Five Ways to Ward off the Horrors of Cybersecurity

    Oct 31, 2016, 20:01 PM by Kris Nagamootoo
    What ghastly horrors are lurking behind firewalls and in dark corners behind flickering monitors this Halloween? Read on to face the frighteningly dark realms of cybersecurity and get five steps you can take to protect yourself today – as well as a particularly useful tool for you and your company.
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  • SXSW Panel: Apprenticeships and Solving the IT Skills Gap

    Oct 28, 2016, 15:02 PM by Preston Grisham
    We are very excited to announce our panel 'Apprenticeships and Solving the IT Skills Gap’ has been selected to present at the 2017 SXSW Conference in Austin. The panel will be moderated by Charles Eaton, CEO of the Creating IT Futures Foundation. We are extremely fortunate to have United States Senator Orrin Hatch joining him on the panel.
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  • Cloud-Based Tech CEO Calls on Congress to Approve the TPP

    Oct 28, 2016, 14:05 PM by Stefanie Holland
    ClikCloud founder and CEO Dan Shapero joins companies across the U.S. on encouraging Congress to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in an effort to promote high-tech trade throughout the world.
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  • FCC Passes New Privacy Rules for Broadband Internet Access

    Oct 27, 2016, 16:39 PM by Matt Starr
    This morning the FCC passed its long-awaited data security and privacy rules for broadband internet access service (BIAS) providers on a 3-2 party line vote. While we won’t have the final language of the rules for several more weeks, Chairman Wheeler released a fact sheet earlier this month outlining what we should expect from the upcoming order. Unfortunately, albeit not surprisingly, the Commission has decided to move forward with its ex ante prescriptive approach and will not follow the FTC’s case-by-case framework.
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  • Six Ways You Can Drive Diversity in Technology

    Oct 26, 2016, 21:27 PM by Yvette Steele
    Many tech organizations struggle to drive diversity in their workforce; despite knowing the well-touted benefits of doing so. Here are six actions to take to become the change that you want to see.
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