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Don Barker


Don Barker is manager of networking and digital workspaces at CDW. Don is a seasoned IT professional with more than 19 years of experience and works with many enterprise customers as a trusted technical adviser. Don’s background is focused around telephony, video, contact center and collaboration. He has worked with Cisco and Microsoft collaboration products since 2009 with prior Avaya, Shoretel and 3COM experience. Don’s real passion and specialty is working with customers to provide clear guidance and strategy, architectural design and successful solution delivery. Don resides in Hudson, Ohio, with his wife and two sons.

Manager of Networking and Digital Workspaces


Lines of Business and IT Should Collaborate to Ensure Success

By understanding an LOB’s workstyle and business needs, IT can help maximize budgets, increase security and enhance the end-user experience.

By Don Barker
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September 6, 2017
Digital Workspace

What’s the secret to maximizing a digital workspace solution’s ROI and minimizing its total cost of ownership? The IT department must collaborate with each line of business (LOB) to understand its unique business goals and workstyles. Collaboration solutions illustrate why. Businesses often have a hodgepodge of chat, video, calling and shared platforms from different vendors…

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Cisco Webex Teams and the Continuum of Workplace Collaboration

Breaking down silos within the workforce can have a profound effect on productivity.

By Don Barker
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March 8, 2017
Digital Workspace

It’s difficult to overstate how important communication is in the era of the distributed workforce. Yet when it comes to remote collaboration, too many organizations rely on a brittle collection of point solutions that can frustrate efforts to work together over voice, text, video and shared digital environments. The result is predictable: Workers often default…

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Cisco + Apple = A Mobility Play for the Masses

By Don Barker
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October 20, 2016
Digital Workspace

It’s been a year since Apple and Cisco Systems announced their partnership to “transform business through mobility,” so what’s come of that pairing?  There has been a considerable amount of collaborative innovation. The companies have worked together to build in the necessary integration for devices running the Apple iOS 10 operating system and Cisco network…

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The Finer Points of a Good Headset

By Don Barker
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May 24, 2016
Digital Workspace

I’m often asked whether the inexpensive headsets advertised on the web are adequate for the workplace. Simply put, they’re not. These devices connect organizations to their customers and the outside world, so it pays to invest in a good headset — ideally one that works so well, you forget it’s even there. One thing I’ve…

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