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The IT training industry needs to stress the importance of hiring skilled workers and providing additional IT training to the employer audience, speakers at CompTIA Colloquium said on Tuesday.  It’s an audience that is sometimes overlooked, Terry Erdle, CompTIA executive vice president of certification; and Cushing Anderson, program vice president for research firm IDC, told attendees.“We haven’t necessarily sold this to the employing world, that if they get a skilled person, it’s much better fo ...

In its second year, the CompTIA IT Business Growth Professionals Community is still working to cement its identity. The group, which includes consultants who provide coaching and business services to the IT industry, discussed its purpose and direction at the CompTIA Annual Member Meeting on Tuesday.“I think our value is in sharing knowledge,” said community member Larry Kesslin. “There are areas that each person in this room has expertise in that we can share to help us become better at what we ...

Last year, Austin Lambert's goal of a career creating video games seemed far away. He was bullied at school and had low self-confidence. What a difference a year makes. After applying for and gaining a spot at Chicago Tech Academy, he's spent his freshman year learning all about technology.

Meet Eric Duquene, senior systems engineer at System Solutions Inc., and CompTIA subject matter expert (SME).

Access to capital and a skilled workforce are critical to the success of small- and medium-sized IT businesses, CompTIA members told Congressional members and Administration officials today. On the final day of CompTIA's Washington D.C. Fly-In event, CompTIA members from across the country met with policymakers to stress the issues that are important to small- and medium-sized tech businesses.Meeting with officials at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, members said access t ...

In more than 50 meetings on Capitol Hill today, CompTIA members from across the country stressed how instrumental small- and medium-sized IT companies are to the nation's economy.Members who attended CompTIA's Washington DC Fly-In event discussed specific legislation with elected officials and legislative staff, as well as the recurring themes of access to capital for small- and medium-sized companies, cybersecurity, and IT workforce development.Even in a down economy, IT worker unemployment is ...

The main challenge to successfully implementing health IT isn’t the technology aspect, but rather how to understand, digitize and improve clinician workflow, speakers at the CompTIA Tech Summit said on Thursday. “You are re-engineering the way medicine is practiced in healthcare settings,” said Bethany Gilboard, director of health technologies for the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Physicians can sometimes be resistant to a new model of patient care, said Charles J ...

There are myriad opportunities for partnering in the telecommunications and cloud services space, and global IT vendors are eager to do so.Seventy percent of vendors surveyed by Amazon Consulting said telecom service providers were “very strategic” to their 2011 indirect channel go-to-market plan. Beth Vanni, Amazon Consulting vice president, presented results from the survey of 64 global IT vendors at a Breakaway session on Wednesday.Sixteen percent of the vendors were “still formulating a stra ...

Understanding a medical practice’s workflow is critical to selling healthcare IT solutions. That takes a combination of research, good listening skills and practice, Patrick Wilson of Vital Signs Technology told a group of Breakaway attendees in a Wednesday session. “You’re not going to have a single product that works for all entities,” he said. “It’s in the subtle details. You have to listen and figure out what is unique to their practice.” By unde ...

Technology vendors are announcing new products, services and partnerships at CompTIA Breakaway this week. A few of the noteworthy items:eGestalt Technologies announced version 11 of its award-winning security and compliance management solution that provides PCI and HIPAA/HITECH-based security and risk assessment, auditing and remediation. The tool offers peace of mind to channel partners servicing SMBs to large enterprises, including medical providers and their business associates, retailers and ...