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Chris Gibes


Chris Gibes is a data center solutions technology practice manager for CDW. He provides strategic and tactical direction to CDW's solutions architects and guidance to customers looking for the latest in data center technologies. With more than 20 years of IT experience, Chris has performed varied roles within the industry including system administrator, storage architect, consultant and manager.

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Manage Your Multicloud Environment for Long-Term Success

Effective oversight addresses culture and security while involving the right stakeholders at every step.

By Chris Gibes  and Tim Keating
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February 4, 2021
Cloud

[sayit]— Written by Chris Gibes, Tim Keating and Mark Yorko Before your organization gets too far into a multicloud environment — using some combination of hyperscale providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, along with private clouds — it’s wise to develop a management strategy. Proper multicloud management supports long-term…

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How to Improve Your Multicloud Strategy

Optimize multiple cloud environments with cloud-native design, portability, data gravity and input from your DevOps team.

By Chris Gibes  and Tim Keating
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January 29, 2021
Cloud, Data Center

— Written by Chris Gibes, Tim Keating and Mark Yorko. As organizations build multicloud environments, it’s important that they think strategically about guiding principles and capabilities. Multicloud may involve any combination of the major hyperscale public cloud platforms — Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform — or a hybrid that also includes…

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How Hyperconvergence Powers Digital Transformation

Hyperconverged infrastructure provides many of the benefits that organizations are already chasing as part of their digital transformation initiatives.

By Chris Gibes
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March 9, 2020
Data Center

[sayit]Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is the fastest-growing category in data center infrastructure. The reasons for this are clear: This technology eliminates silos, simplifies management and enables scalability — three benefits that organizations need to support their digital transformation initiatives. Recently, much of the conversation about digital transformation has focused on containerization and application modernization. But I…

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Why Hardware (Still) Matters in the Data Center

For many organizations, data center modernization means investing in high-quality infrastructure.

By Chris Gibes
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July 22, 2019
Data Center

Many of the discussions I hear about data center modernization involve massive enterprises that focus on efforts such as incorporating automation throughout their data centers, containerizing applications for cross-environment portability and moving to a more agile app development process. Don’t get me wrong; all of these use cases are enormously valuable — for the right…

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Is Hybrid Cloud Storage Right for You? Read These Key Considerations

With careful planning, spreading data across your data center and the cloud can improve scalability, agility and savings.

By Chris Gibes
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November 20, 2018
Cloud, Data Center, Services

“A place for everything, and everything in its place." You’ve probably heard this familiar idiom encouraging tidiness. It also sums up the basic concept of hybrid storage. Enterprises seeking better ways to manage and organize their data, and the associated costs, can find new flexibility in hybrid solutions, which extend on-premises arrays into a hyperscale…

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Software as a Service Backup Has Your Back

Ransomware and other threats put new emphasis on the importance of a solid backup strategy.

By Chris Gibes
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September 18, 2018
Security, Cloud, Services

Data is your organization’s lifeblood. Can you afford to entrust it to an outsider? It’s a reasonable question, one that just about every enterprise asks when considering Software as a Service (SaaS) backup. But I believe a better question is, can you afford not to? Here’s why. For starters, a SaaS solution for backup eliminates…

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