With mass store closures by Sears, Toys “R” Us and other major brands, conventional wisdom says brick-and-mortar retail has one foot in the grave. Wrong. Online sales make up just nine percent of all retail sales, according to a new Deloitte study. The study also found that brick-and-mortar sales are actually growing — to the…

If you don’t talk to your business units about the Internet of Things, who will? IT history shows why that’s not a glib question. Over the past decade, many enterprises suffered embarrassing security breaches and hefty noncompliance fines because their business units signed up for a cloud service without IT’s blessing or even knowledge. Why?…

When I was an IT infrastructure director in a previous life, I thought that the term “middleware” was something of a dirty word. I viewed it as inelegant — something that gummed up the works of applications rather than streamlining them (not to mention giving me just one more thing I needed to manage). I’m…

I recently attended Cisco Live 2018, and one topic at the event in Orlando that drew my attention was the updates to Webex Meetings. If you are using Cisco’s Webex Meetings today, hopefully you have already heard that Webex version WBS 33.3 is right around the corner. What does this mean to you and your…

Those of you have read part 1 and part 2 of this blog series already know all about the cloud migration framework — what it is, why it’s important and how to get started. This post will discuss the last piece of the puzzle: the migration. Migration Framework Key Steps for a Cloud Migration The…

While it was steamy outside in Nashville for the CDW SummIT on Preparing for the Future, it was cool inside the Westin’s ballroom where industry experts on data center and cloud computing technologies sketched out a future built in the cloud. From former Fed CIO Tony Scott talking about the growing influence of 5G technology…