October 29, 2011-- CompTIA has given European Solution Provider 10 free passes to their 2011 EMEA Member Conference, which takes place at the London Hilton Metropole Hotel on Wednesday, the 9th November.

CompTIA is the non-profit trade association representing the IT channel. After the recent acquisition of the TCA, CompTIA has over 500 members in the UK and over 2500 members globally. The Association focuses its efforts on four key pillars of activity:

• Educating the IT channel 
• Certifying the IT workforce 
• Advocating Read more...

The IML Group launches xSolutions, a new trade show hosting the latest in video developments within vertical markets for both IT resellers and end users, taking place at London's ExCel this October. 

Exhibitors will include leaders in bringing video to business, institutions, education, non-profits and MNCs, while attendees will include trade visitors working in IT, AV, electrical, security, telecoms, acoustical and building services. 

Visitors will also include end users with whole-building, whole-company or campus-wide technology and operating Read more...

What can you expect at this year’s Screenmedia expo 2011 in London?

Mark Pigou, Director of Screen Events, says, “…I can promise visitors and exhibitors that Screenmedia expo 2011 will be the biggest, brightest and boldest yet. The expo is consistently growing year on year, as is the digital place-based media sector, and this makes for exciting times ahead. What is essential is that we as an industry continue to collaborate, network, inspire and create in order to establish digital media as a more attractive, viable opportunity for brands, agen Read more...

With this last Partner Summit in New Orleans, Cisco celebrates its 15th partner summit. 

Keith Goodwin, Cisco SVP Partner Organization, purposefully chose to kick off this 15th summit by acknowledging an attendee from Ingram Micro France who has attended all 15 summits. While the 2011 summit had more than 10,000 attendees (counting the 7000 virtual attendees, too), that Ingram Micro executive was part of a first Cisco Partner Summit with a mere 175 attendees. 

You can measure Cisco’s impact on the channel in the last 15 years by counting that growth in attendees. And Goodwin went on to introduce IMPACT as the theme for this 2011 Summit: impact to make a difference (first day), impact innovation (second day) and impact leadership (final day).

Cisco is putting extra effort into targeting the small and medium business (SMB) market because, according to Goodwin, Cisco “isn’t getting its fair share” of this very large, growing market.

When Goodwin handed over the stage in Big Easy to the Cisco CEO and President, John Chambers highlighted the partner’s $170B opportunity which Cisco addresses with five priorities:

1. Core routing/switching business
2. Collaboration
3. Data Centre, virtualization and the Cloud
4. Business (and technology) architectures
5. Video

Chambers underlined Cisco’s ability to read the market, stating, “We see market transitions way ahead of our competition.” Read more...