CompTIA Blog

Solution providers must adapt their portfolios and capabilities to sync with changes in the industry, from transformations in cloud, managed services and mobility to new demand for app development. CompTIA’s combined Advisory Councils met in Florida recently to discuss ramping up programs and tools that will help you successfully cross that chasm.

Members of CompTIA’s UK Channel Community braved the cold to sleep out for charity in October, donating $12,000 to the cause and helping to raise funds for a charity that helps homeless youth.

There are endless ways to work tablets, smartphones and similar technologies into your portfolio, but their real value comes from how you implement them in your clients’ workplaces. Check out the mobility solutions offered up at this month’s Super Mobility Week and read how MSPs are using smartphone and tablet technologies to complement traditional PCs.

It’s no longer enough to simply build a better mousetrap — to succeed you’ve got to build out the entire business, according to CompTIA’s 4th Annual State of the Channel report. Read how managed services and cloud business models are impacting sales and marketing efforts, plus the nontechnology challenges the channel is facing.

Multiple advances in technology have drastically changed the scope of the burgeoning Internet of Things—in fact, the number of connected “things” is projected to skyrocket to 50.1 billion in 2020. Read CompTIA researcher Seth Robinson’s breakdown of IoT and download our latest study, Sizing Up the Internet of Things.

The longer it takes to grow your headcount, the longer you postpone profits, but it’s difficult to find and hire the right people. Creating IT Futures’ Eric Larson walks through the important questions to ask yourself before hiring, and issues that impact your company’s IT workforce outlook.

Gordon Russell, 24, wanted to move his career beyond updating, deleting and modifying data entry records, so he used CompTIA and the new study aid CertMaster to help him earn the IT certifications he’d need to move up the career ladder. “CertMaster is an amazing learning tool,” he said.

Many students in the diverse student body of Hoover Elementary in Cedar Rapids come from struggling families and nearly a quarter of their population is learning English for the first time. A donation from one of CompTIA’s member communities has been used on technology buys that will help students stay on track and help the school close its achievement gap.

Onboarding a new client is the perfect opportunity to both set and manage expectations while nurturing and developing your professional relationship early on. From a welcome gift to salient points about necessary hardware upgrades, give your new clients what they need to trust you and your services.

Help us further our mission to drive the IT industry forward by shaping the future of the IT channel in Australia. We’ll be holding our first CompTIA Australia Community meeting on November 12, which is free for all solution providers, vendors and distributors working in the IT channel. Register now and be part of the conversation.

Students at Boston’s Mildred Avenue K-8 School and Community Center can thank CompTIA’s IT Security Community and the Boston Celtics for help in renovating the center’s computer lab and teen space. With help from the Creating IT Futures Foundation, the IT Security Community donated $5,000 to the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, which allocated the donation to its Player Choice Grant, a grant that allows members of the Celtics roster to vote on where the money should go.

Whether you want to learn about disruptive trends in IT, business transformation or just find sales solutions, you’ll hear secrets straight from the top at the Oct. 21 and 22 IT Services & Support Fall Community Meeting in Philadelphia.

The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts selected CompTIA.org to receive both gold and silver W3 Awards for 2014, the ninth time the awards have been given. Facing competition from 4,000 other entries, CompTIA was honored as a top-performing association site with awards for web writing, the home page and the user experience.

CertMaster came through for an Irish woman studying for her CompTIA A+ exam. Management consultant Olive Brennan Herbst said CompTIA’s new learning tool helped her not only memorize the material; it gave her a full understanding of the material being presented. “It helped me ensure I passed,” she said.

IT instructor Richard Tamme says the combined research from neurobiology, cognitive psychology and game studies used to create CertMaster will help hold students’ interest as they learn. “All those features are used in combination to create a very comprehensive learning tool that will work well for almost any student,” he said.