Lisa Archer Posts

More than 60 guests at our U.K. luncheon today were keen to learn more about cloud phenomena, cloud best practices and trends and understand how CompTIA Cloud Essentials certification can help companies of all sizes. Speakers at the event included Brant Seethaler of ITPreneurs, Ian Moyse, an industry authority on cloud security, and Andy Nickolls of SkillSoft. John McGlinchey, vice president, Europe & Middle East, CompTIA, welcomed the group and explained that CompTIA Cloud Essentials certif ...

With so much hype and so many different ways of describing the cloud, people are left feeling scared and confused.   Ian Moyse, U.K. sales director, Workbooks.com, believes that we shouldn’t be scared of the cloud and instead ask ourselves the simple question if cloud can help.  Moyse has found that by trying one cloud-based application that genuinely helps us means we are far more likely to become “cloud committed.”Moyse has more than 26 years IT experience, sits on the board of Eurocloud UK, h ...

ITpreneurs have a simple, yet effective business model.  They develop courseware, and their resellers package this content with their own offerings to deliver high quality training to end-users.ITpreneurs saw a huge opportunity with cloud computing and worked with CompTIA from the start to design and develop the content for CompTIA Cloud Essentials.During our U.K. cloud luncheon today, Brant Seethaler, regional business manager, ITpreneurs, shared his personal experience working with ING Bank wh ...

More than 60 guests at our U.K. luncheon today were keen to learn more about cloud phenomena, cloud best practices and trends and understand how CompTIA Cloud Essentials certification can help companies of all sizes.Speakers at the event included Brant Seethaler of ITPreneurs, Ian Moyse, an industry authority on cloud security, and Andy Nickolls of SkillSoft.John McGlinchey, vice president, Europe & Middle East, CompTIA, welcomed the group and explained that CompTIA Cloud Essentials certific ...

ITpreneurs have a simple, yet effective business model. They develop courseware, and their resellers package this content with their own offerings to deliver high quality training to end-users. ITpreneurs saw a huge opportunity with cloud computing and worked with CompTIA from the start to design and develop the content for CompTIA Cloud Essentials. During our U.K. cloud luncheon today, Brant Seethaler, regional business manager, ITpreneurs, shared his personal experience working with ING Bank ...

On March 6th, our UK office hosts a partner luncheon on cloud computing and the need for education and certification. Led by John McGlinchey, vice president, EMEA, CompTIA, the luncheon will feature Ian Moyse, a well-known authority on cloud security. Moyse is the U.K. sales director for Workbooks.com, a Eurocloud U.K. board member and Cloud Industry Forum Governance board member.  Below is a post from Moyse on his insights into the cloud computing trend.2012 is rumored as the tipping point for ...

From 2006-2010, one billion units of Internet-enabled devices were sold across Europe.  Ninety percent of those units were mobile devices.  Is your enterprise ready to embrace mobility?During a session at our EMEA Member Conference, panelists discussed the growing role of mobility and mobile devices in today’s enterprises.  Neal Louw, CTO of Dimension Data Europe, a $5 billion systems integrator, urged the audience to think of mobile enterprise not as evolution but revolution. It's a game change ...

At this year’s CompTIA EMEA Members Conference, Steve Head delivered an energetic, fun-packed and inspiring closing keynote that finished with a standing ovation.Through a series of comical stories and exercises, Head helped his audience understand that we are drawn to finding faults rather than focusing on what is right and working.  We need to be conscious of this and instead of ‘sweating the small stuff’ we need to focus on the good stuff!In a world where we are all looking to deliver more wi ...

During the EMEA Member Conference in London, a panel of IT training professionals (Jason Moss, managing director, Zenos; Richard Lambden, operations director, Pearson in Practice; and Tony Hay, learning and technical development manager, Ricoh UK Ltd.) ran a lively and interactive workshop on how to sustain a talented and an appropriately qualified workforce.The number of students studying for their A levels is down 60 percent and the number studying for a computing degree is down 50 percent com ...

Cloud computing is the number 1 technology priority for CIOs, according to Gartner research. Gartner also predicts that the cloud market will be $150 billion by 2015.  By 2015 cloud services will make up 46 percent of net new growth in overall IT spending according to eWeek.com.In short, cloud computing is the biggest change in the IT profession and businesses need to take cloud computing seriously.But cloud computing brings complications: Cloud movement is faster than organizations can adapt. T ...