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CompTIA training academy aimed at boosting IT skills
IT trade association CompTIA has opened an academy designed to support IT trainers and educators as they attempt to improve technology skills in areas where knowledge and equipment is hard to come by.The CompTIA Authorised Academy Membership Program (CAPP) Academy will let trainers do their jobs more efficiently,by offering lower cost resources and certification, and access to its support community.
The Academy replaces CompTIA’s successful Education to Careers (E2C) Read more
ExamForce Adds CompTIA Security+ SY0-301 to Lineup of CompTIA Approved Quality Content (CAQC) Study Materials
CompTIA awards the CAQC designation only after stringent review by industry experts. According to CompTIA’s website “Training material given the CAQC seal has gone through a rigorous approval process to confirm the work meets exam objectives, language standards and necessary hands-on exercises and labs. Students, training organizations and educational institutions recognize the CAQC logo as the quality trademark of CompTIA certification materials.“
Job growth is strong in the IT Read more
Clegg accepts that hopes of Lords reform are receding
Plans for an elected House of Lords are likely to fall victim to the Coalition’s desire to convince voters it is prioritising economic growth. Conservative ministers believe Nick Clegg’s flagship scheme will die a “slow death”as it runs into strong opposition in both the Commons and the Lords.A Lords Reform Bill will be included in the Queen’s Speech today after Mr Clegg rebuffed demands from Tory MPs for it to be dropped.But yesterday the Deputy Prime Minister Read more
Four more things your IT department should consider not doing
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled “Six things your IT department should stop doing today” and received quite a lot of feedback. The feedback ranged from “Right on!” to “If we do all of this, we won’t have jobs!”
While I don’t agree with job preservation as a singular goal for IT staff, it’s an understandable sentiment. That said, I continue to believe that IT organizations should do everything in their power to shed the mundane items outlined in Read more
IT guys don’t know enough, bosses say
I am grateful to Wired for having corralled this report before too many IT guys got a hold of it and slapped it over the heads of their bosses. For it declared that 93 percent of respondents believe that their IT guys’ know-how contains more holes than the average chunk of Emmental.
The report, commissioned by CompTIA, a nonprofit industry association, made my own laptop quiver with indigestion. For the bosses kvetched a little further. Eighty percent of them, for example, Read more
Australia’s top 10 trends for enterprise IT in 2012: CSC (part 2)
In a report, Top 10 Technology Trends: Enterprise IT in 2012, Hayward stated that this year is looking to bring businesses a great deal of uncertainty and slow economic growth, especially with the European economic outlook.
“Business will pare IT budgets to the bone. Everything that can be pushed back or deferred will be. Unless something changes soon, economic growth will be slow during the next several months,” he said.
Job-search engine CompTIA Read more
Cognizant’s revenue guidance hints at caution among IT companies
The marginal downward revision by Cognizant in its revenue guidance for 2012 is likely to stoke fresh worries in the minds of investors about the near-term prospects of IT outsourcing. The Nasdaq-listed company reduced its revenue growth estimate for the current calendar year to 20% from its earlier forecast of 23%.
While Cognizant’s latest guidance is still far more optimistic than the 8-10% growth estimate of Infosys for financial year 2013, the downward tweaking of Read more
Three Cloud Service Brokers, Powered by XiloCore and Asigra, Recognized as Game-Changers in the IT Channel Inducted Into CompTIA IT Hall of Fame
Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup?, Recovery and Restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, announced today that three cloud service brokers powered by long time partner XiloCore, the IT channel’s preferred provider of data protection and business continuity services for today’s small and medium businesses, were inducted to the CompTIA IT Hall of Fame.
Steve Harper of Network Management Group Inc., Ted Warner of Connecting Point and Jane Cage of Heartland Technologies Read more
Indian IT services bigwigs grow in global stature
On Monday, the research firm released its report stating revenue for the top 5 Indian IT services players–Tata Consultancy Services (TCS); Infosys; Cognizant; Wipro; and HCL Technologies–reached US$29.8 billion in 2011, from US$24 billion in 2010. The global market share of these players grew from 3.1 percent in 2010 to 3.5 percent in 2011.
Arup Roy, principal research analyst at Gartner, said in the statement: “The top five Indian service providers have continuously Read more
Sensex, Nifty flat; IT plunges post Cognizant cuts guidance
The BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty opened flat on Tuesday after seeing a sharp swing yesterday. Even US and Asian markets were sideways in trade.
Shares of country’s largest software services companies TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCL Tech were down 3-4% after Cognizant cut its revenues and profit guidance for FY12 to 20% from earlier 23%. The company indicated demand trends entering into Q2 were not as strong as it had earlier expected.
With emerging technologies such as tablets Read more
