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Neal Clark


Neal is a principal cloud computing executive. He comes to CDW following a successful career at AT&T, where he leveraged his cloud and data center knowledge to develop customer-focused business solutions. In addition to his cloud and data center knowledge, he also has experience with security and collaboration solutions. Neal attended Northern Illinois University and works out of CDW’s downtown Chicago office.

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From Containers to Stronger Security: 6 Cloud Trends for 2020

Here’s how the cloud will continue to evolve in the coming year.

By Neal Clark
|
December 10, 2019
Cloud

[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…

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Digital Transformation Success Starts with Workload Placement

Whether it’s the edge, fog computing, cloud computing or the data center, making smart choices for compute workloads is increasingly important.

By Neal Clark
|
April 24, 2019
Cloud, Data Center, Networking

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…

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Avoid These 4 Common Cloud Pitfalls

By steering clear of preventable mistakes, organizations can avoid the dreaded Cloud U-turn.

By Neal Clark
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March 27, 2019
Cloud, Data Center, Services

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…

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Hybrid Cloud Success Depends on Thorough Planning and Accurate Resourcing

Just because something can go in the cloud, that doesn’t necessarily mean it should.

By Neal Clark  and Tracy David
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December 28, 2018
Cloud, Services

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…

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Building a Cloud Plan Strategy

In order to save time, achieve goals and ensure business alignment, a robust, reliable cloud plan must be created.

By Neal Clark  and Tracy David
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December 19, 2018
Cloud, Data Center, Services

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…

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Cloud Backup: An Opportunity to Discuss Disaster Recovery

By Neal Clark
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July 6, 2016
Cloud

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…

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