Daniel Margolis Posts

CompTIA’s Distributor Advisory Council met at ChannelCon this month and, as always, engaged in a passionate, wide-ranging discussion of both strategic and near-term industry issues impacting the distribution community.

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IT departments no longer control the majority of IT purchasing decisions. The new buyer is line-of-business leaders. Marie Rourke, founder and president, WhiteFox Marketing, explored this idea at ChannelCon this month via a panel discussion.

CompTIA’s Cloud Community met this week at ChannelCon, and one of the highlights of the meeting was a presentation titled “Crowdsourcing Cloud Insights: The Past, The Present and the Future.”

Two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Peyton Manning spoke at CompTIA ChannelCon at the Diplomat Resort & Spa Hollywood this week, stressing teamwork and adaptability in a speech that frequently drew comparisons between football and business.

CompTIA CEO Todd Thibodeaux delivered a powerful keynote speech at CompTIA ChannelCon at the Diplomat Resort & Spa Hollywood on August 2, giving a frank assessment of the state of IT – particularly its talent needs and challenges – and outlining next steps.

People often talk about how IT is a male-dominated industry, but rarely do something to directly change this. The Creating IT Futures Foundation recently took such a step, graduating its first IT-Ready class intentionally made up of women – drawn from a diverse range of ages and ethnicities. The ceremony was a mixture of raw emotion and humor.

The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce presented Pathways to Pipelines this week, featuring a panel moderated by Rex Huppke, workplace columnist with the Chicago Tribune. On the panel were Gretchen Koch, executive director with the Creating IT Futures Foundation, Eujin Kwak, Midwest campus recruiting specialist with Protiviti, and Sandee Kastrul, co-founder and president of i.c.stars.

Computers are everywhere, a point placed into stark relief when we consider a world in which they’re nowhere. Imagine waking up one day and all the world’s computers are just gone. The resulting chaos would stack up quickly, which is why we should no longer look at IT as just a part of the world but rather the entire world.