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IT support company Mirus IT have been members of CompTIA for almost two years. Before joining CompTIA, Mirus IT felt that they weren’t fully engaged in the industry and were unable to make the most of making business connections. Areas such as business planning were always fully managed within the company and had little external consultation. They were looking to join an organisation that could help them to develop relationships and increase their connections within the IT industry.After taking ...

The CompTIA EMEA Members and Partners Conference opened this year with Olympic cyclist, gold medallist and three-time world record holder Chris Boardman. Introduced by CEO Todd Thibodeaux, Boardman inspired the room with a direct and clear lesson on what he believes makes a truly high-performing team. His presentation focused on one clear example – the British Cycling innovation team – which he said is the highest-performing team he has ever worked with.Boardman, who started out as a carpenter j ...

One of the first sessions at today’s CompTIA EMEA member conference focused on the need for channel organizations to move from the traditional “box shifter” business model to becoming managed services providers (MSPs). Nancy Hammervik, SVP of industry relations at CompTIA, led the session. She pointed out that the U.K. is considerably behind the U.S. when it comes to transformation from one channel to the other. In the U.S., she said, more than 75 percent of IT companies now refer to themselves ...

This blog post courtesy of Keith Warburton of TCA, the UK Channel Community of CompTIAThe Technology Channels Association (TCA) was the not-for-profit trade body for the U.K. IT marketplace. We were in business for nearly 18 years and in that time we consistently provided a wide range of services to our members, who included vendors, distributors and of course; resellers. We always took the view that coopertition is the way forward – we all have more to gain by cooperating with others than we ha ...

New research presented today at CompTIA’s EMEA conference highlights the many ways employers use and value IT training and certification, while uncovering some of the challenges organization face in measuring ROI. The CompTIA survey of 1,371 IT managers, located in the UK, South Africa and the US, who recently made an IT staff hire reveals that IT certifications play an important role in screening candidates and confirming expertise.“Despite a virtual buyers market for hiring companies, many org ...

The session Channel Execs Predict the Future (21 October at 11:30-12:15) is sure to be one of the most popular sessions at the upcoming CompTIA EMEA Member Conference 21-20 October at the Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel.The panel, moderated by CRN editor Sara Yirrell, covers what leading channel players think is hot, happening and coming down the pike: cloud computing, green IT, healthcare IT, security, storage and much more. We asked the panelists — Ray Barber from Kaseya, Tim Black from Inte ...

We are less than a month away from the 2010 CompTIA EMEA Member Conference. I can’t believe it has been a year since we last got together and I for one am looking forward to the new insights from vendors and resellers, as well as the latest from our certification partners. The conference begins on Wednesday, October 20, with our Education 2 Careers Academic Conference as well as a series of community meetings and private sponsor events. Wednesday highlights include:Opening E2C keynote with autho ...