Daniel Margolis Posts

CompTIA’s Partner, Telecom and Vendor Advisory Councils held a joint meeting yesterday morning at the association’s Annual Member Meeting, happening this week at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. The meeting featured a presentation by Bharath Natarajan, director of product marketing, TDCloud and software services at Tech Data Corporation, on “the Role of Distribution in a Cloud-Centric World.”To set the tone for his remarks, Natarajan began with a series of slides sourced from other autho ...

CompTIA’s Cloud/SaaS Community met today at the association’s Annual Member Meeting, and one of the biggest topics discussed was the forthcoming Cloud Trustmark+.According to the briefing provided in the meeting, the target of this Trustmark is public SaaS solution vendors with cloud go-to-market. The channel value proposition here is to protect resellers and their customers by ensuring cloud vendors meet a certain level of technical performance. The projected scope of the Trustmark, so far, is ...

CompTIA’s Telecom Advisory Council met for the first time today at the association’s Annual Member Meeting, happening this week at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. The meeting saw the new council in the initial stages of defining its goals; CompTIA director of communities Kate Hunt said a key goal of the meeting was to find one issue the TAC wanted to start collaborating on.During the open discussion that followed, TAC vice chair Mike Saxby, principal at Allied Tech Solutions, said he se ...

CompTIA Communities are the foundation of the association’s initiatives, programs, education and research. These member-driven groups collaborate to advance specific technologies, vertical markets or business segments that are vital to the IT industry. CompTIA Community members include IT professionals, vendors, distributors and thought leaders who work together on the issues and programs that will shape the future of the IT industry.In this podcast interview, Jim Hamilton, vice president, membe ...

For a time, businesses’ print processes were a no-man’s land for managed services providers; they were considered the domain of companies selling printers and related equipment. But managed print services have grown and evolved in recent years, with MSPs making definite in-roads working with manufacturers, vendors and VARs to add print management capabilities to their portfolios.So, to reinforce and assist the growth of managed print, CompTIA today launched its new Managed Print Trustmark, a bus ...