In my role as the technical lead for CDW’s incident response practice, I spend much of my time working with organizations in the midst of battling a security incident. I’ve observed that the technology environments at some organizations put us in a much better position to respond quickly and effectively; in particular, the presence of…

Drone technology has advanced rapidly in recent years, but organizations are still only scratching the surface of what these devices can do. For business and IT leaders who are unfamiliar with the technology, drones might seem like the domain of hobbyists or the military. But advanced features — such as high-resolution cameras, heat sensors, artificial…

For decades, disaster recovery has mostly followed a model: An organization copies data from its primary data center and stores it somewhere else (often on tape) for safekeeping, in case something goes wrong. Many organizations continue to think of DR in those terms, but the practice has moved forward. In fact, even the objectives behind…

It seems that at any collaboration summit, event or IT business strategy discussion that I attend people talk about if and how they should migrate to the cloud. Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) are most certainly topics of conversation. In my experience, I have seen customers struggle…

Often, I hear people talk about hyperconverged infrastructure as though it’s still an emerging, almost experimental solution. But the reality is that many organizations have deployed hyperconvergence — which combines storage, computing and networking into a single system — for years. As these organizations have learned, HCI can have a significant impact on their IT…

All-flash is no longer the future of storage — it’s the present. The adoption of all-flash storage arrays has accelerated greatly in the past year, with sales totaling nearly $2.5 billion in the first quarter of 2019. Greater reliability, reduced power consumption and simplified management are three major reasons why organizations are moving to flash….