Neal Clark

[sayit] As the calendar turns over to 2020 in a few weeks, you can count on a few things: college football on New Year’s Day, gyms packed full of people promising that this is the year they’ll stick to their resolutions, and cloud providers continuing to improve their product offerings as they compete with one…

Once upon a time — and not all that long ago — the data center was the only place for IT workloads to run. If an organization needed to process large amounts of data, that’s where it happened. But the emergence of the cloud, coupled with the rise of digital transformation and the Internet of…

Too often, I see organizations rush headlong into public cloud investments, only to pull resources back on-premises in a matter of months. This is a move so commonplace that we at CDW have a term for it: the Cloud U-turn. The problem, of course, isn’t with the public cloud itself. Countless companies are successfully running…

In this stage of the cloud technology lifecycle, we are well past any questions about whether the cloud is “good” or not. The reality is that the cloud is useful for any number of use cases. Whether that’s good or not depends entirely on the organization’s business objectives and the workloads or applications that are…

The excitement of realizing the benefits of the cloud means that organizations sometimes skip the planning process and move right ahead to the implementation phase. But those who have dived headfirst into the cloud have sometimes found themselves backing out as fast as they jumped in when issues around performance, cost or security don’t work…

Organizations are constantly looking for ways to reduce cost and improve their data center efficiencies. With the advent of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and on-demand cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, new virtualization strategies have emerged. We need to realize our clients are recognizing the cloud as a new option in…