It’s not new: IT departments struggle to navigate a path that maximizes productivity, efficiency and profitably. The options from which organizations must choose as they seek to identify technologies and services that support their unique business conditions and objectives are overwhelming. And keeping up with day-to-day tasks such as patching and provisioning leaves IT teams…

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…

I joined many of my colleagues in the information security community a couple of weeks ago for the annual gathering of the tribe at RSA’s 2019 conference. We come together every year to share our thoughts on the latest trends in security — and every year, a theme emerges. It looks like 2019 will be…

As a senior data center architect, I work regularly with organizations such as police forces, county health departments and state election agencies. These organizations face different challenges, and each has different ways that it wants to achieve its mission. But my conversations with the people in these organizations reveal meaningful similarities among them. Generally, the…

In my previous blog post, I talked about the need for organizations that are making the transition to public cloud to understand the inherent value of being in the cloud. Moving your private infrastructure into a hybrid cloud is not enough. You need to focus on transforming people, processes and technology in a way that…

Everybody needs a printer, but nobody wants to manage one. Even in an increasingly digitized world, printers retain a central place in most organizations’ operating models. And often, print environments sprawl over time, encompassing a variety of devices that all consume different supplies and require users to learn each machine’s idiosyncratic processes. In many organizations,…