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Help Wanted: Business Transformation Professionals
March 28th, 2018 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
The business community is redefining IT support. While organizations become increasingly more dependent on technology to improve and help manage their operations, their expectations and preferences are changing. The “on demand” generation is more comfortable pushing the limits with innovation and - Read More
 
How Unconscious Bias Affects Our Perceptions and Decisions
October 30th, 2017 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
Life experiences and personal connections impact how we see and interact with others. That makes it harder to listen with less objectivity to people who may talk, sound, and look different than our inner circle of friends, family members and co-workers. People can’t help it. It’s in our DNA. Our - Read More
 
Should Tech Companies Adopt a SaaS First Approach?
September 29th, 2017 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
SaaS has quickly and rather stealthily become one of the strongest sales plays for channel firms. In the latest CompTIA survey, 74% of the respondents said some or all of their cloud sales revenue came from SaaS-related activities. Considering how some shun the term and how little MSPs talk about - Read More
 
The Costs and Challenges of Hiring IT Security Professionals
August 29th, 2017 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
Cloud and IT security have a lot in common. You simply can’t ensure the performance of virtual technologies without effective network and data protection. And with cloud making up an increasingly large portion of corporate infrastructure each year, concerns for the provider community continue to - Read More
 
Your Next Co-Worker Just Might be a Robot
May 23rd, 2017 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
There is a general concern among the workforce that in a very short time humans may no longer be needed to fill many of today's jobs. The automation trend continues to accelerate with robots taking over increasingly more complex responsibilities. Workers have a reason to be concerned as many have - Read More
 
Tech Workforce Trends: State by State
April 19th, 2017 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
The prospects for those with computer and network skills are virtually unlimited today. In fact, despite years of expansion and increasing demand, the tech industry remains one of the strongest and most lucrative job markets. U.S. tech sector employment grew to an estimated 6.9 million in 2016, an - Read More
 
CompTIA’s 2017 Focus (and Beyond)
March 15th, 2017 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
Considering everything that’s happened in the IT industry so far this year, it’s hard to believe we’re only halfway through March. News wires in the tech community have been running at full throttle in 2017 and that activity is sure to heat up more, as it usually does, when spring rolls around. - Read More
 
Transitions in Vendor-Partner Relationships
December 22nd, 2016 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
Over the past couple decades, the vendor-partner relationship has been based on synergies and mutual need. On one hand, you had suppliers that focused on product development and innovation. On the other side of the equation were the providers and key distributors that performed most of the sales - Read More
 
Channel Members Lead the Way into 2017…and Beyond
November 14th, 2016 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
One of CompTIA's foundational philosophies is that members should play a major role in driving initiatives and strategy. That's how trade associations work. In CompTIA's case, peer leaders come from within the membership ranks, with feedback and contributions from virtually every sector of the - Read More
 
CompTIA Research Highlights the Shift in Channel Cloud Opportunities
October 14th, 2016 | CompTIA | CompTIA Blog
The devil really is in the details. When you’re doing research, it’s great to see data that reinforces trends you’ve identified in the past. That continuity validates your previous work, especially when those studies are repeated on a regular basis. In channel research, there’s also the hope and - Read More
 

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