Many organizations migrate resources to the public cloud in part because they want to reduce their IT management burdens. By minimizing the footprint of their on-premises infrastructure, they hope to direct their internal IT staff away from routine maintenance and support tasks and toward more strategic projects that create value for the business. So, it…

In July 2018, CDW rolled out the third iteration of our complimentary Threat Check service. This service is designed to minimize the effort required by our customers to complete the assessment. Threat Check customers are provided a fully loaded security appliance that they simply connect to their networks. The appliance works in the background, passively…

CDW’s networking practice recently gained recognition from Cisco by earning its Master Networking Specialization designation. It’s a big deal for us as this is Cisco’s highest and most exclusive level of partner certification. While this allows CDW access to a broader range of incentive rewards and custom marketing campaigns (all great things to help us…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been getting a lot of attention lately, but for a technology company like CDW, looking to provide valuable solutions to customers, it can be challenging to create a new service offering in this area. For one thing, the term AI is very abstract and can transcend many technology areas such as…

Like their peers in other industries, state and local IT leaders are interested in modernization, but budget constraints often stand in the way. In my experience working with government agencies, many organizations wait five years or even longer to upgrade their data center infrastructures. One obvious consequence of maintaining this legacy infrastructure is suboptimal performance….

It is less than nine months to the date when Windows 7 extended support runs out — on Jan. 14, 2020, to be precise. If a business customer has not upgraded to Windows 10 by then, they will need to pay Microsoft for the privilege of continuing to receive security updates. Of course, it is…