Technology industry stresses professionalism and the 'Cloud' (Java Training Courses)

It's an unusual week, as this is the first time I've had to be at two places in the same week for annual meetings.

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The first meeting was the annual member meeting of the Computing Technology Industry Association. Regular readers of this column may recall I am very active with CompTIA, which is the global IT trade association. CompTIA focuses on four pillars in its work: education, certification, advocacy and philanthropy.

At this week's meeting, members of the IT industry from around the world come together to discuss how the association may best help its members over the coming year. CompTIA has long been known for its technical certification programs. This is the IT industry's premier continuing education training and helps employers of technical professionals and services, and consumers, to know the people they are working with have received the technical training and advanced education needed to fulfill their responsibilities. In recent years, this has been extended to also include a credentialing program that certifies a company providing IT services has the proper training, processes, documentation and quality controls in place to hold what is called a Trustmark.

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The IT industry had never had the equivalent of a bar exam, CPA or AMA certification before, and this is what these Trustmarks provide. I was pleased to see there will be several new Trustmarks forthcoming from CompTIA, in addition to the existing two, which I feel is an excellent development to ensure the professional standards in our industry.

The second meeting I attended was an annual gathering of technology business owners that participate in a peer Master Mind group. The Master Mind concept is a growing trend in business management across multiple disciplines. It's a wonderful concept that helps business owners learn from each other through facilitation and sharing of best practices, to deliver better services to our collective clients. An interesting theme across both meetings this week was the importance of the evolving trends in both mobility and the Cloud.

Mobility and Cloud are the two hottest topics in the IT industry right now. The ability to use mobile devices to work on demand is changing the landscape for the management of technical infrastructures, and the evolution of the Cloud is making it possible to access data anytime, anywhere, from any device. CompTIA Chief Executive Officer Todd Thibodeaux delivered his keynote address this week from his iPad. He actually brought both paper notes and his iPad to the podium and asked the audience which he should use. Before we could answer, he jokingly told us he was going to use his iPad, which was no surprise to me. It underscores the point that mobility and the Cloud are enabling technologies that can be used in so many ways.