Luke Welling

Luke Welling is a principal inside solutions architect for CDW's data center practice. He has spent more than 15 years at CDW and previously took on the role of storage solution architect, where his responsibilities included offering planning and development advice to customers looking for a customized storage solutions that would meet their needs. Luke resides in Scottsdale, Ariz., with his wife and two daughters.

Principal Inside Solutions Architect

Living in a Software-Defined World

By Luke Welling

November 9, 2015

Networking

As we see software-defined everything emerge, network and data centers as we know it today will evolve into a cloud-based controller design. Let’s take a look at how this technology is poised to make dramatic changes to the way that organizations design, deploy and manage networks and storage. Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) The Software-Defined…

Wading through the choices and options in the storage space

By Luke Welling

July 30, 2015

Data Center

Most all of us are familiar with data deduplication as it applies to data redundancy in backup storage. As you know, there are countless avenues to deduplication, from software backup applications, to deduplication appliances, to cloud targets. And the insertion of deduplication capabilities into the software stack of primary storage has been available for years,…