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Andrew Ballema


Andrew is the senior manager of aggregation, infrastructure and managed services at CDW. He joined the company in 2006 as a solution architect in CDW’s mobility practice, focusing in on selling end-to-end mobility solutions to enterprise customers. In 2014, Andrew was promoted to manager of aggregation, infrastructure and managed services (AIM) where he is responsible for delivering consistent growth in telecommunications, cloud and managed hosting sales. Andrew leads the solutions portfolio, pricing, sales enablement, operational fulfillment and partner relationships for the AIM team. Prior to joining the AIM team, Andrew was a part of CDW’s inaugural Emerging Leaders Program. In ELP, he was responsible for the growth and strategic vision of the program developing and delivering internal projects to allow for leadership and career development of CDW’s future leaders. Prior to joining CDW, Andrew has held sales positions with various telecommunications providers. Andrew was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Mich., but has resided in Chicago for the past 16 years, where he devotes much of his time to his wife and two young kids, Charlie and Ellerie. In his free time, he enjoys DIY home projects and playing golf. Andrew holds a bachelor's in horticulture-landscape design/build from Michigan State University.

Senior Manager of Aggregation, Infrastructure and Managed Services


Why It’s Time to Consider Disaster Recovery as a Service

Options for restoring mission-critical data and applications keep getting better and cheaper.

By Andrew Ballema
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November 13, 2018
Services, Cloud, Data Center

Misery loves company. If you want plenty of both, don’t bother developing a disaster recovery plan. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, about a quarter of businesses do not reopen after suffering a disaster. That’s a lot of closures when you consider how many hurricanes, wildfires and floods have swept the country over the past couple…

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3 Factors to Consider When Choosing the Best DRaaS Provider

By Andrew Ballema
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August 11, 2016
Cloud

In disaster recovery, one size doesn’t fit every company, every budget, or even every IT workload that you need to safeguard.  Flexibility is the key.  But research indicates that nearly half of all companies don’t have a disaster recovery solution in place at all.  That is surprising because the stakes are higher than most people…

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