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Help us further our mission to drive the IT industry forward by shaping the future of the IT channel in Australia. We’ll be holding our first CompTIA Australia Community meeting on November 12, which is free for all solution providers, vendors and distributors working in the IT channel. Register now and be part of the conversation.

Students at Boston’s Mildred Avenue K-8 School and Community Center can thank CompTIA’s IT Security Community and the Boston Celtics for help in renovating the center’s computer lab and teen space. With help from the Creating IT Futures Foundation, the IT Security Community donated $5,000 to the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, which allocated the donation to its Player Choice Grant, a grant that allows members of the Celtics roster to vote on where the money should go.

Whether you want to learn about disruptive trends in IT, business transformation or just find sales solutions, you’ll hear secrets straight from the top at the Oct. 21 and 22 IT Services & Support Fall Community Meeting in Philadelphia.

CertMaster came through for an Irish woman studying for her CompTIA A+ exam. Management consultant Olive Brennan Herbst said CompTIA’s new learning tool helped her not only memorize the material; it gave her a full understanding of the material being presented. “It helped me ensure I passed,” she said.

IT instructor Richard Tamme says the combined research from neurobiology, cognitive psychology and game studies used to create CertMaster will help hold students’ interest as they learn. “All those features are used in combination to create a very comprehensive learning tool that will work well for almost any student,” he said.

Prove your business is best-in-class by earning a vendor-neutral CompTIA Trustmark—and do it at half price when you attend EMEA in London.

From Fortune 500 companies to mom-and-pop stores, every organization needs solid IT security specialists who can audit current systems and policies, recommend and implement proper upgrades, and monitor and support it all. Explore our related security resources — including a trustmark, executive certificate and quick start guide — and make sure your solution providing organization is up to the task.

Solution providers who want to get the most value from their alliances delegate partner responsibilities to their most capable employees: trustworthy and creative individuals who understand what customers need. Finding someone who can uncover and comprehend the objectives and concerns of their colleagues can be tricky business. It takes someone with good listening skills, problem-solving capabilities and flexibility.

The value of a sales playbook — the comprehensive action plan designed to help build a better dialogue with customers — is proportional to the effort you put into it. Use this article to tackle the five key points you should first address when you’re developing a new sales playbook, from the plays to the equipment to the position to the team.

Combining research and market intelligence with our educational guides and resources, Five Tools to Jumpstart Your Cloud includes a variety of resources to give you a full understanding of this emerging technology, plus related channel trends and developments in the workforce. We’ve bundled complementary tools to make your study in cloud more digestible — a mini roadmap of sorts.

IT businesses face significant, business-changing decisions including what solutions to sell, how to sell them and whom to partner with. CompTIA’s 2014 EMEA Member and Partner Conference includes a strong lineup of educational sessions, panel discussions and keynote speakers to help IT companies make those decisions and develop strategies for excellence.

Attracting young women to careers in IT is a struggle in both the U.S. and the UK — and an industry-wide image problem that must be addressed by the community, according to Firebrand’s Edward Jones. Initiatives like Dream IT, by CompTIA’s AWIT Community, aim to engage at the grass-root level and transform the representation of women in IT.

Cloud computing is on the rise, but unified communications is hot on its heels: 84 percent of organizations that don’t use UC features are considering an upgrade in the next three years, according to a recent poll. Convincing new clients to implement a flexible, scalable communications system can lead to a big payoff, but you’ve first got to prove it’s safe and reliable. These three tips will help you create a successful advanced communications sales strategy.

With a goal of recruiting the best staff and winning the biggest contracts, the ambitious Tech-Wales company turned to CompTIA and Software Alliance Wales to streamline its business processes.

As a small IT provider of just three people, the team at GiaKonda was looking to trump competitors by gaining an industry standard that would give them the differentiation they were looking for in the market. They found the solution in CompTIA Trustmarks.