Becoming an Azure Expert MSP required a companywide effort spanning multiple teams, bringing together expertise from across our global organization. We worked extremely hard to demonstrate to an independent third party that our experience in these solutions is best in class.

So what does this status mean for customers? That through our CDW Amplified™ Azure Managed Services, we provide consistent processes, tools, skills and technology to ensure successful delivery of repeatable, complex solutions based on Microsoft Azure. Learn more about our three-step approach.

Endpoint security management has been a significant challenge for years, and the recent shift to remote work by many organizations in response to the coronavirus pandemic has only made the situation more complex. Today, IT and security professionals have even more to manage as users access sensitive data and conduct critical business activities from home.

The timing is good, then, for the emergence of secure access service edge: a new category of solutions designed to protect users — and their data — wherever each is located. Several security vendors have introduced solutions built around SASE (pronounced “sassy”), an architectural framework that places the edge wherever an organization’s devices and cloud services meet.

I get many questions about Amazon Web Services (AWS). For instance, what should be the first step when starting the cloud journey? What sort of connectivity is required between the on-premises data center and the cloud?

Given the number of important considerations and the plethora of available services in the cloud, it’s important to have intricate cloud knowledge. Working with a trusted partner can help ensure your organization adopts the right strategy from the beginning.

IT modernization is a broad category that encompasses solutions ranging from hybrid cloud and multicloud environments to containerization, hyperconvergence and flash storage. With so many organizations in need of an infrastructure refresh, it’s understandable that high-level conversations about enterprise IT often start with the need to modernize technology environments.

But really, this approach is backward. Instead, business and IT leaders should begin with the problems they’re experiencing, and then look to see how modernized IT solutions can address them. Here are five common business issues associated with aging data centers, along with modern IT solutions that can address them. If your organization is dealing with any of these, it may be time to consider how to go about modernizing your IT infrastructure.

Managing cloud costs is top of mind for almost every public cloud customer. I know this because I speak with customers every day who are looking for ways to save on their public cloud costs.

When focusing on cost management, a business can leverage several strategies. For instance, an organization can deploy monitoring and alert tools, or make better use of various purchasing options. In this blog, I explore five key tactics for driving down costs.

There’s a growing awareness of the value of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — the practice of provisioning and deploying infrastructure using DevOps processes and best practices — to decrease IT costs and management burdens. At the same time, more and more organizations have begun to recognize and take advantage of the value offered by cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services CloudFormation.

And yet, we haven’t seen a huge move on the part of enterprise IT departments to leverage the combination of IaC and AWS. Here are some of the benefits and use cases of IaC on AWS CloudFormation, and how organizations can get started.