Lisa Fasold Posts

With a jam-packed room of CEOs from IT training companies during Colloquium today in Chicago, CompTIA discussed how as a group we can solve the IT skills gap quandary.  Speaker Cushing Anderson, VP of worldwide project-based services research, IDC, also broadened the discussion to how trainers can best equip their students and clients to prepare them for the 3rd platform now coming of age in the IT industry. As CompTIA Todd Thibodeaux explained to the training audience, Colloquium is really ...

With a jam-packed room of CEOs from IT training companies during Colloquium today in Chicago, CompTIA discussed how as a group we can solve the IT skills gap quandary.  Speaker Cushing Anderson, VP of worldwide project-based services research, IDC, also broadened the discussion to how trainers can best equip their students and clients to prepare them for the 3rd platform now coming of age in the IT industry.As CompTIA Todd Thibodeaux explained to the training audience, Colloquium is really a con ...

How do you cut through the noise and the avalanche of emails you get every day to filter down to the specific channel news and information you need?  A group of IT channel veterans heard your cry for help, and they’re launching a free and secure social network to aggregate channel information.Welcome ChannelEyes.  It’s like Facebook, but instead of having friends, you can connect to a filtered group of vendor and association feeds on your wall.  It’s a single place to get a snapshot of new chann ...

This year, CompTIA continues to follow its ECAP focus, initiated last year, to grow the IT industry worldwide.  Our efforts are centered on Education, Certification, Advocacy and Philanthropy (i.e. ECAP). CompTIA President and CEO Todd Thibodeaux recently discussed how the association is enlarging its reach and taking its programs to the next level.  Why?  To make CompTIA work better for the industry and our members. Hear how we expanding and diversifying our channel traini ...

The old saying says two heads are better than one.  So what’s better than two?  Try 200.  At our Annual Member Meeting (AMM) this spring, more than 200 CompTIA members will meet to collaborate on new industry programs.Check out our interview with Jim Hamilton, VP of member communities for CompTIA, on how AMM will help members cross-communicate on programs.  Members will meet to examine the progress of educational training, business credentials and community roadmaps.  Plus each community will se ...

From time to time, CompTIA brings you blog posts from our media partners that directly relate to the success of the IT channel. Check out the post below from Tech Security Today's Michael Vizard on the how to prepare for security threats in 2012:Security in the coming year is going to be more complex than ever to manage. The attack vectors are widening and the skill sets of the hacker community are getting sharper with each passing day. In fact, the top 12 threats to IT security in 2012 are:Soci ...

SaaS technology is not only changing the way applications are designed, developed and delivered, it also can support an efficient and flexible model for application and data integration.  So how can solution providers work with online services to get the right mix of technology for their customers?  Dell Boomi and RightNow recently teamed up in such an example, as guest blogger, Ralph Hibbs of Dell, relates below.RightNow, the Bozeman, Mont.-based originator of the cloud-based customer experienc ...

For the first time at our CompTIA EMEA Members Conference, we’re creating three educational tracks to make sure every VAR, vendor, training partner and academy can get the latest trend and technology information that is impacting their particular part of the IT channel.On the training partner side, hear about CompTIA’s soon-to-be-released cloud certificate, tips and tricks for growing your training business, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), and how social networking trends are i ...

Our UK Channel Community is nearly one year old, and members are finding they get out much more than put in.  The community allows them to share knowledge and learn from each other.This month, UK Channel Chair Richard Tubb interviewed community member George Ilko of Vitality Consulting, a leading managed services provider focused on the small and medium-sized business market.  Why is Ilko involved in the community and how is it helping him grow his business?  Listen to the podcast.[podcast]http: ...

Protecting bare drives is imperative while storing and transporting digital data as spills and falls could be catastrophic to a hard drive. CRU-DataPort has redesigned and improved its anti-static drive case for bare 3.5" hard drives and 2.5” notebook drives. CRU-Dataport was one of 160 vendors showcasing their solutions to help VARs grow their business at Breakaway.DriveBoxes add minimal height to a drive making them more compact to steadily store on a shelf and archive data or access files. CR ...