Lisa Fasold Posts

As of December 13th, CompTIA’s new address will be 3500 Lacey Road, Suite 100, Downers Grove, IL 60515.  We’ve been an ardent Chicagoan for 25 years – so we’re not moving far.  In fact, our new office is only 3.5 miles from our former headquarters in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.  But as the Jeffersons said in their iconic TV show, we’re truly moving on up.Why move?  It’s simple.  Our new office space will allow us to better serve you, our members and the larger IT channel.With our new space, we will en ...

This month the CompTIA Educational Foundation awarded IT Merit Award Scholarships of $250 each to 25 students who are pursuing careers in the information technology industry.  These are kids and young adults who want to make our industry their own. The scholarships are to reward them for their extra efforts in studying for and passing their certification exams and to encourage them to keep going in their studies.  As an industry, we need to cheer on these students and others who want to become p ...

We brought the crazy and the creative out last month at CompTIA. Six staff teams fundraised in all sorts of ways to bring in more than $14,000 combined for the CompTIA Educational Foundation.  We’ll match that total, giving $28,000 to the foundation so that it can offer free IT training and certification to military personnel and spouses, youth at-risk and individuals with disabilities.In our fundraising contest, a single donation was limited to $500 so the teams truly had to hustle.  From aucti ...

From Valley Forge to Normandy to Vietnam to Afghanistan, brave men and women, from all walks of life, have left the comforts of the familiar, leaving family and friends, to defend our way of life and the freedoms many take for granted.  Today, Veteran’s Day, let’s give thanks to all our veterans.CompTIA has a specific program to help military personnel and their spouses get the training they need to launch an IT career.  The big bonus – it’s free.  It’s our simple way of saying thank you to thos ...

by Ray Barber, guest blogger from KaseyaServices providers (SPs) traditionally provided clients with a mixture of the break-fix model, point solutions and out-of-the-box products that tied clients down to vendors for extended periods of time, even when those products didn’t necessarily work. But, the days of single-minded inflexible quick IT fixes are fast coming to an end.During the last five years, there has been a dramatic shift in the way people consume IT products and services, and the SP i ...

The Technology Channels Association (TCA) is merging with CompTIA to create the U.K.’s largest trade association for the channel, the CompTIA TCA Community. In addition to TCA benefits, such as Confidence Assurance, TCA members now gain access to CompTIA’s portfolio of educational and operational resources.Keith Warburton, president of TCA, commented on the new merger:“These are exciting times for the Technology Channels Association as we become the latest community of CompTIA. As a 17-year-old, ...

The CompTIA EMEA Member Conference at the Radisson Edwardian London Heathrow Hotel opens this week, and nearly two dozens vendors will showcase their latest tools for the IT channel to more than 300 attendees.Prometric, a global leader in testing and assessment services, has two improvements that will impact and benefit its IT test center partners around the world. TCFlow 2, the newest version of its proprietary test center administration software, is rolling out to global test center partners. ...

Last year, Andy Havens, a former airman with the U.S. Air Force, took his first step to making his dream of an IT career a reality. He had read on Military.com that the CompTIA Educational Foundation’s Creating Futures program gave free training to military veterans. “This was an opportunity beyond belief for me since I really wanted to get into the IT field. I have been fascinated and intrigued by computers and their application to real world needs since I had taken a programming class in colle ...

Our U.S.-based CompTIA executives finished up a world tour this month which focused, in part, on how IT certification is advancing on the global stage.  They found that CompTIA’s set of Strata certificates get a warm reception abroad.CompTIA's Strata program offers fundamental-to-advanced certificates that validate a wide range of subjects in IT. Students and professionals holding a Strata certificate demonstrate that they have the knowledge required to enter and excel in IT and technology-relat ...

More than 1,000 industry leaders were in attendance at our annual Breakaway conference this month in San Antonio. But what? You missed it?We can’t replace the networking that you missed, but we’ll try to update you on the host of the learing opportunities available at the event. The Channel Vanguard Council (CVC), a thought-leadership advisory group to CompTIA, powered two special presentations – transformative revenue models and rethinking sales compensation plans. The idea behind these session ...