This year's Comptia Solution Provider Breakaway was held at Casino Nova Scotia Hotel in Halifax and attracted 140 attendees, including vendors and solution providers.

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The opening State of the Market Address looked at how successful companies manage their businesses through vertical expertise, financial management and commitment to emerging technologies.

AMD and Intel made keynote speeches to solution providers on where they are and what they've been doing in the last year.

eBay made a presentation on how resellers can leverage their sales and expand their business using the online service to sell used electronics from computers to cables.

Denise Woods, international director of sales and marketing at Comptia, gave VARs an overview of what the IT trade association is up to.

After a hard two-and-a-half days of PowerPoint presentations, some succumbed to the lure of the casino.

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