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Brandon Jackson


Brandon Jackson is a distinguished field solution architect at CDW. Prior to his current role, Brandon was responsible for services enablement around data center infrastructure technologies, whether traditional, converged or hybrid focused. He worked closely with customers, technology vendors and CDW’s services team to help customers achieve their business goals. Brandon has worked as a consulting engineer focusing on NetApp, Cisco UCS, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V for several years. He has also been a technical lead on CDW’s national Data Center Consulting Services team, providing leadership to a team of engineers focusing on converged infrastructure. Brandon earned a degree in computer information systems from Hamilton College.

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Nutanix .NEXT Conference Highlights

Exciting new products and updates took center stage at this year’s Nutanix event.

By Chris Jostock  and Brandon Jackson
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May 17, 2019
Data Center, Cloud

A number of us at CDW had the opportunity to attend Nutanix .NEXT 2019 in Anaheim last week. The attendance was great, the announcements were exciting, and we think it was one of the best Nutanix events yet. One of the best parts of the show was seeing our CDW engineering team members having their…

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How CDW Services Can Support Your VMware Cloud on AWS Deployment

Combining virtualization and public cloud is a win-win for organizations, especially when assisted by CDW.

By Brandon Jackson  and Chris Jostock
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April 8, 2019
Data Center, Cloud, Services

One of VMware’s big technology pushes of 2018 into 2019 has been around VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC). When the leader in virtualization collaborates with the leader in public cloud, some amazing things can happen. VMC has some great features and allows customers to move their VMware workloads into AWS easily and efficiently using the…

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Transform Your Infrastructure with NetApp HCI

Hyperconvergence offers guaranteed performance and independently scaling nodes.

By Troy Brick-Margelofsky  and Brandon Jackson
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December 18, 2018
Data Center, Cloud, Services

It’s been about three years since NetApp bought SolidFire, a maker of all-flash storage systems for data center applications. The acquisition was part of NetApp’s new Data Fabric strategy, which promised to simplify management across on-premises and cloud resources. Today, that work is paying off for organizations looking to transform their data environments with hyperconverged…

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Hybrid Cloud: Building the Best of All Worlds

Successful hybrid cloud implementations are all about putting the right applications in the right environments and then orchestrating that mix.

By Troy Brick-Margelofsky  and Brandon Jackson
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September 13, 2018
Cloud, Data Center, Services

— Written by Troy Brick-Margelofsky, Brandon Jackson and Stephan Stelter Public cloud, just like private cloud, has advantages and disadvantages, depending on the circumstances in which it is used. That’s why almost every organization will gravitate toward some combination of cloud solutions that best achieves its business goals, performance expectations and requirements for security and…

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Nutanix Highlights Growth and Innovation at .NEXT 2018

New partnerships and improvements to products topped the agenda at this year’s conference.

By Brandon Jackson
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May 15, 2018
Data Center, Cloud

Last week, Nutanix held its annual conference Nutanix .NEXT. As always with Nutanix, there was a tremendous amount of buzz and energy around the company and announcements at the event. For those who were unable to attend, I wanted to write a little bit about my thoughts and reactions to some of the major items…

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What Are Meltdown and Spectre, and Which Processors Are Affected?

Here’s a breakdown of the two security vulnerabilities affecting many CPUs, and how technology vendors are responding.

By Brandon Jackson  and Jesse Wiener
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January 9, 2018
Security, Software

— by Brandon Jackson, Jennifer Lugo, Jason Owens and Jesse Wiener There has been a lot of information and articles published over the last few days regarding what some initially reported as a security issue with Intel CPUs. As more research and information has become available, some of the details previously announced appear to have…

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Shockwave Flash Plugin Crashes workaround with VMware vSphere Web Client 6.x

While there is a workaround, it comes with a security risk that IT teams need to consider.

By Brandon Jackson
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October 19, 2017
Security, Software

[sayit]A recent (automated for most users) update to Adobe Flash Player embedded within the latest updates to Chrome and Firefox browsers causes the VMware vSphere Web Client 6.x (all versions) to crash and not load. There is no fix as of today, as Adobe is working on a new Flash version to publish, but there…

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CDW Named VMware 2017 HCI Partner of the Year

The VMworld announcement shines a light on CDW’s valuable partnership with VMware.

By Brandon Jackson
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September 21, 2017
Data Center

At VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, VMware named CDW its HCI Partner of the Year for 2017. Here is what the VMware National Partner Management team had to say about CDW's success in the commercial, enterprise, government, education and healthcare sectors: “CDW’s robust commitment to VMware HCI is evident across all regions, segments and verticals. Their…

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NetApp HCI Launch Event: Changing the World with Data

One of the hyperconvergence leaders serves up a new platform.

By Brandon Jackson
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June 5, 2017
Data Center

Today, NetApp held a public launch event on their website to announce their new directions for Data Fabric and data management. One of the many highlights of the presentation was the announcement of the new NetApp HCI platform. Dale Degan (director, product marketing, SolidFire products and solutions) spoke at length about the exciting new offering…

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Eaton IPM: Power Management for Data Center Environments

The Integrated Power Management solution offers great features and plays well with many data center stalwarts.

By Brandon Jackson
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April 19, 2017
Data Center

Today’s post covers Eaton’s Integrated Power Management (IPM) software and how it can benefit data center administrators with managing power across a heterogeneous environment. IPM is a software solution from Eaton that provides a set of tools to monitor and manage power devices in both physical and virtual infrastructures. IPM helps ensure data integrity and…

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Product Review: VMware vSphere 6.5 Offers Solid Performance

VMware’s premier product gets a smart upgrade, with improvements to core functions and an enhanced user experience.

By Brandon Jackson
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February 10, 2017
Data Center

VMware recently released vSphere 6.5, which brings great new features and enhancements to both the hypervisor and vCenter. This post briefly discusses these features. vSphere Web Client and HTML5 vSphere Client VMware continues to improve its web interface. The old C# client is no longer part of the vSphere 6.5 release, replaced by an enhanced…

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Hybrid Cloud Management—Blurring the Lines between Data Centers, Public Cloud and Private Cloud

The right management tool helps navigate the ever-evolving cloud landscape.

By Brandon Jackson
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November 23, 2016
Cloud

Cloud deployment models have certainly made a comeback in 2016. What started as a mad rush a few years ago to move everything to the “cloud” (if you remember, most people had air quotes around the word cloud in their minds back then) turned into a mass exodus back into the data center a year…

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