Andrew Wall

Andrew Wall is a senior solution architect with CDW. He works with customers designing enterprise data center solutions to keep data and applications available to the business. He currently supports corporate, healthcare, and state and local customers. His primary focuses are virtualization, business continuity, data protection and archiving.

Senior Solution Architect

7 Ways to Turn Data Centers into Profit Centers

By making a business case for new infrastructure, data center administrators can shed their departments’ reputation as “cost centers” for good.

By Andrew Wall

July 12, 2019

Data Center, Networking

When I work with customers on data center refreshes, the most successful projects are those that include executives and line-of-business stakeholders in the planning process. This isn’t because the residents of the executive suite or the sales department know more about technology than the IT shop — far from it. Rather, when everyone comes together…

When state, county and municipal agencies update their data centers, they also have an opportunity to streamline their IT operations.

By Andrew Wall

May 3, 2019

Data Center, Cloud, Services

Like their peers in other industries, state and local IT leaders are interested in modernization, but budget constraints often stand in the way. In my experience working with government agencies, many organizations wait five years or even longer to upgrade their data center infrastructures. One obvious consequence of maintaining this legacy infrastructure is suboptimal performance.…