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Executives from Spiceworks, the world’s largest community of IT pros, talk about what’s important to IT pros today and how their role will evolve tomorrow in an executive interview with CompTIA’s CEO Todd Thibodeaux at ChannelCon.

Thank you to our 2017 exhibitors for helping to make ChannelCon so successful.

Starting a new job can be overwhelming, challenging and even frustrating at times. But keeping a positive attitude can help you stay focused on what’s important and grow in your career.

From IoT to SaaS applications, the explosive growth of IT in business is opening new doors for cybercriminals. What are they and how can IT firms step up to save the day for small businesses? The cybersecurity panel at ChannelCon provided all the answers.

Microsoft’s month-old “partner first” strategy is a complete transformation of the company’s channel go-to-market model. The software giant’s channel GM, Alyssa Fitzpatrick, explained the basics to an audience of partners in an Aug. 1 keynote interview at ChannelCon.

When the IT manager at London’s Bute House Preparatory School for Girls needed extra IT help, HR manager Janette Patterson found a very creative – and educational – solution.

The CompTIA staff have pulled together six great panel submissions for the 2018 SXSW Conference in Austin Texas. We need your help to ensure our panels are selected for next year's show. With more than 70,000 attendees at the festival, SXSW provides a great opportunity for CompTIA to showcase our expertise and thought leadership on a number of topics that are pertinent to the technology industry.

Adoption of the SaaS model requires IT professionals to strengthen their selling skills and widen their target prospect base, realigning their business models and tightening their focus on individual users. Is there a pay off for those efforts? And what advice do the experts have for those making the leap? Those questions were answered during a panel discussion at ChannelCon.

CompTIA executive vice president of public advocacy wrote an op-ed for Morning Consult on June 19 and described how by 2024, there will be 1.8 million unfilled tech jobs, according to CompTIA. Given technology’s importance to the economy, ensuring that we can fill those jobs should be a national priority.

CompTIA executive vice president of public advocacy, Elizabeth Hyman and director of public advocacy Matthew Starr teamed up to pen an op-ed for the Washington Examiner on July 31. Hyman and Staff emphasize that increased broadband competition will not just make the average consumer experience more gratifying; building a nimble infrastructure today will power the jobs and innovation of tomorrow by providing all industries with the technological tools they need to compete on a global stage.

Growth is crucial to business success, and the IT industry is no exception. How can professional services firms find and train the best and the brightest, or at least the best fit employees to feed their expansion plans?

Women in tech can accelerate their careers by taking a page from men and building their own versions of the “old boys’ network” – a personal advisory board with five key career-boosting allies, according to the keynote speaker at CompTIA’s Advancing Women in Technology Community meeting at ChannelCon.

Our Linux guru, Jason Eckert, is back to “Talk Tech to Me” with a few crash courses on some of the hottest Linux topics. For each of the next three weeks, we’ll have a new post full of commands and step-by-step instructions to help you master Linux.

What's the best way to build an organization of high value? You're going to need capital, but what should an owner do to get his or her hands on that cash?

Business has lost that personal touch today ‒ and consumers are perfectly fine with it. Two marketing gurus discussed the challenges of crossing that digital divide to grow IT services sales at ChannelCon 2017. What insight did they share? Read on...