Joe Frarace

Joe Farace is a cloud client executive at CDW with more than 14 years of technology sales and channel sales experience. Joe has previous experience at Singlehop, a Chicago-based cloud hosting provider, where he worked as a cloud solutions manager, as well as Imation, a global scalable storage and data security company, where he worked as national account manager for tiered storage solutions. He's also worked as a Symantec licensing specialist and as a senior enterprise account manager. Joe is a graduate of Illinois State University, where he was the team captain of the ISU Redbirds hockey team. Joe also served his country in the U.S. Navy as a senior plane captain and leading airman.

Cloud Client Executive

Two Visions of the Cloud: Nearsighted vs. Farsighted

Taking into account both tactical and strategic considerations makes for a strong cloud strategy.

By Joe Farace

September 8, 2016

Cloud

As cloud and IT-as-a-Service-based solutions continue to command mainstream adoption, we are gaining insight into what goes into an effective cloud strategy. In the past, the term cloud strategy was, at best, ambiguous. No one knew what it meant, what went into a cloud strategy or how it would fit into their organization’s strategic vision.…