Topic: Industry Events - Page 40

They include Sarah Johnson, pictured left, a recent high school graduate and technology enthusiast who received the first CompTIA/ChannelPro Cecilia Galvin Scholarship Award, which is named after ChannelPro’s former executive editor.

At the IT membership association’s annual conference, now taking place in Washington, D.C., President and CEO Todd Thibodeaux spoke about his own personal journey as part of a new initiative aimed at bringing more young people and adults into the tech industry.

The two-day educational and networking event touched on hot topics like the Internet of Things and and included business continuity lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey.

According to Rackspace, BitTitan, Arcserve, and others Microsoft is making progress toward the sweeping changes it introduced a year ago, but has yet to turn most of its intentions into reality.

Called the Wingman Professional Services Program, the new offering is less a strategic pivot into a new revenue source than an effort to help partners get cloud infrastructure practices up and running swiftly.

The roughly 30 rigorously vetted partners to earn the new Azure Expert Managed Service Provider designation so far, which include giants like Rackspace and New Signature, are now Microsoft’s go-to options for outsourced Azure administration.

Announced on the eve of the vendor’s annual partner conference, the new and updated products give SMBs new options for experimenting with Microsoft’s answer to Slack, running online events, and more.

Held last week in Hershey, Pa., the distributor’s Mid-Atlantic Summer Technology Show offered nearly 1,000 attendees a host of meet, greet, and learning opportunities.

IT solution providers and technology vendors gathered for two days of networking, education, and training in Ann Arbor.

The newest addition to the ConnectWise product family, which currently provides centralized control over cloud computing solutions, will soon perform similar functions for backup and security solutions from ConnectWise’s vendor partners.