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Demand for IT talent runs deep, but the related pool of options is shallow, according to ITSS speaker Kim Miner, presenting at AMM. So how do you successfully recruit — and keep — the industry’s top talent?

CompTIA Partner Advisory Council hit a milestone at AMM, launching the CompTIA Business Model Benchmark, a long-term initiative used to measures the success of a solution provider business.

Verizon’s chief marketing executive Janet Schijns offered candid and compelling views on women in IT to an engaged audience of men and women at Tuesday morning’s Advancing Women in IT Community meeting. Her perspective was a healthy dose of reality, refreshing and relevant to both sexes.

Managed services has undergone many changes over the years, and sales techniques must evolve to keep up, according to CharTec CEO Alex Rogers, who spoke to the CompTIA Managed Services Community during AMM Tuesday.

The U.S. segment looks promising in 2015, but economic issues in other regions are negatively affecting growth forecasts, according to discussions brought up in CompTIA’s Vendor Advisory Council meeting, held Tuesday at AMM.

CompTIA’s offering three unique educational pieces at this week’s Annual Member Meeting in Florida — tools that focus on the soft skills and financial savviness that make for a successful solution provider.

Two industry innovators are being inducted into the IT Hall of Fame, a roll call of industry movers and shakers.

Last Thursday, Reps. Michael Burgess (R-TX), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Peter Welch (D-VT) circulated a draft of a long-anticipated bipartisan data security and data breach notification bill, and it was certainly worth the wait. This bill has been in the works for months, but several of its original co-sponsors retired or lost re-election last year

Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary committee held a hearing entitled, “Immigration Reforms Needed to Protect Skilled American Workers.” As the name suggests, the goal of this hearing was to undercut the claims being made by an entire industry— that they cannot find the skilled workers they need in America and thus need to hire foreign workers - See more at: http://www.techamerica.org/senate-judiciary-hearing-targets-high-skilled-immigration/#sthash.rzlId1af.dpuf

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing today entitled “FCC: Process and Transparency”. This hearing follows in the footsteps of the FCC’s historic ruling and subsequent release of their controversial open internet ruling. Chairman Tom Wheeler took the stand at today’s hearing to explain the process in which the Commission went through

From a single mother who was in dire financial straits now thriving at a distribution center for a large retailer to a student now working as a database administrator for tax service Hewlett Jackson, IT pros from all walks of life have gotten their starts at Manatee Technical College – with an assist from CompTIA certification.

CompTIA’s Managed Services Community is building on its new engagement model at AMM, as members dissect key findings in a comprehensive survey that covers virtually every part of an MSP’s operations.

For eight years, Blong Yang worked his way through retail management positions of increasing responsibility and importance. Yet despite his successive promotions — and multiple performance reviews saying he had exceeded supervisor expectations — Yang didn’t feel like he was getting anywhere. CompTIA's Creating IT Futures Foundations IT-Ready program helped him move forward, earning his CompTIA Network+, Security+ and Server+ certifications.

The Marketplace Fairness Act (“MFA”) was re-introduced in the Senate this week by Sens. Michael B. Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.). This bill is similar to legislation passed by the Senate (69-27) in May 2013. The MFA would require all remote sellers to collect and remit sales taxes for products and services sold

Vendors and solution providers have been trying to crack the challenging SMB market for a long time. With the changes in technology, there are even more options available to smaller businesses and more opportunity to help them grow and compete on a larger scale.