William Linard Posts

IT support company Mirus IT have been members of CompTIA for almost two years. Before joining CompTIA, Mirus IT felt that they weren’t fully engaged in the industry and were unable to make the most of making business connections. Areas such as business planning were always fully managed within the company and had little external consultation. They were looking to join an organisation that could help them to develop relationships and increase their connections within the IT industry.After taking ...

The CompTIA EMEA Members and Partners Conference opened this year with Olympic cyclist, gold medallist and three-time world record holder Chris Boardman. Introduced by CEO Todd Thibodeaux, Boardman inspired the room with a direct and clear lesson on what he believes makes a truly high-performing team. His presentation focused on one clear example – the British Cycling innovation team – which he said is the highest-performing team he has ever worked with.Boardman, who started out as a carpenter j ...

One of the first sessions at today’s CompTIA EMEA member conference focused on the need for channel organizations to move from the traditional “box shifter” business model to becoming managed services providers (MSPs). Nancy Hammervik, SVP of industry relations at CompTIA, led the session. She pointed out that the U.K. is considerably behind the U.S. when it comes to transformation from one channel to the other. In the U.S., she said, more than 75 percent of IT companies now refer to themselves ...

IPv4 provides for approximately 4.3 billion addresses and the depletion of the IPv4 addresses have been a concern since the late 1980s, when the Internet started to really grow. IPv4 addresses are now exhausted and there are no unallocated Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses still available. Karl Dietrich of Lansing Community College and Bill Saichek of Orange Coast College explained to CAPP Academic members today at Breakaway, that “with no further IP addresses available, the solution ...

How can you deliver CompTIA exams to your students on campus?  CAPP Academic members learn about new options during Breakaway.Innovative Exams stepped up to the stage first and introduced a brand new delivery model for providing CompTIA exams. Ruben Garcia, Innovative Exams' CEO, explained how his model was unlike the traditional testing centers from VUE and Prometric. "Our model provides remote and secure testing services. Utilizing a remote proctor using digital video cameras to monitor test t ...

IPv4 provides for approximately 4.3 billion addresses and the depletion of the IPv4 addresses have been a concern since the late 1980s, when the Internet started to really grow. IPv4 addresses are now exhausted and there are no unallocated Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses still available.Karl Dietrich of Lansing Community College and Bill Saichek of Orange Coast College explained to CAPP Academic members today at Breakaway, that "with no further IP addresses available, the solution i ...

How can you deliver CompTIA exams to your students on campus? CAPP Academic members learn about new options during Breakaway. Innovative Exams stepped up to the stage first and introduced a brand new delivery model for providing CompTIA exams. Ruben Garcia, Innovative Exams’ CEO, explained how his model was unlike the traditional testing centers from VUE and Prometric. “Our model provides remote and secure testing services. Utilizing a remote proctor using digital video cameras to monitor ...

This blog post courtesy of Keith Warburton of TCA, the UK Channel Community of CompTIAThe Technology Channels Association (TCA) was the not-for-profit trade body for the U.K. IT marketplace. We were in business for nearly 18 years and in that time we consistently provided a wide range of services to our members, who included vendors, distributors and of course; resellers. We always took the view that coopertition is the way forward – we all have more to gain by cooperating with others than we ha ...

New research presented today at CompTIA’s EMEA conference highlights the many ways employers use and value IT training and certification, while uncovering some of the challenges organization face in measuring ROI. The CompTIA survey of 1,371 IT managers, located in the UK, South Africa and the US, who recently made an IT staff hire reveals that IT certifications play an important role in screening candidates and confirming expertise.“Despite a virtual buyers market for hiring companies, many org ...

The session Channel Execs Predict the Future (21 October at 11:30-12:15) is sure to be one of the most popular sessions at the upcoming CompTIA EMEA Member Conference 21-20 October at the Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel.The panel, moderated by CRN editor Sara Yirrell, covers what leading channel players think is hot, happening and coming down the pike: cloud computing, green IT, healthcare IT, security, storage and much more. We asked the panelists — Ray Barber from Kaseya, Tim Black from Inte ...