Collaboration solutions make it easier for employees to work together. So, it’s ironic that the tools themselves sometimes refuse to “play nice” with one another. Organizations often incorporate technologies from multiple vendors to create full-featured customer engagement centers, phone systems and video collaboration environments. But when something goes wrong — or when managers or users…

Cloud providers are offering a number of innovations for deploying and developing applications. Suitable combinations of these offerings allow you to build highly performant, scalable and cost-optimized solutions in the cloud. Due to its criticality, I am going to explore many storage options available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for fulfilling different use cases. Since…

Many organizations migrate resources to the public cloud in part because they want to reduce their IT management burdens. By minimizing the footprint of their on-premises infrastructure, they hope to direct their internal IT staff away from routine maintenance and support tasks and toward more strategic projects that create value for the business. So, it…

In July 2018, CDW rolled out the third iteration of our complimentary Threat Check service. This service is designed to minimize the effort required by our customers to complete the assessment. Threat Check customers are provided a fully loaded security appliance that they simply connect to their networks. The appliance works in the background, passively…

CDW’s networking practice recently gained recognition from Cisco by earning its Master Networking Specialization designation. It’s a big deal for us as this is Cisco’s highest and most exclusive level of partner certification. While this allows CDW access to a broader range of incentive rewards and custom marketing campaigns (all great things to help us…

Unplanned downtime is a crisis for manufacturers. It’s bad enough that productivity comes to a screeching halt, but when a company can’t meet its commitments to customers due to downtime, it erodes the trust those customer have in that company. IIoT World reports that 82 percent of companies have experienced unplanned downtime in the past…