Cloud providers are offering a number of innovations for deploying and developing applications. Suitable combinations of these offerings allow you to build highly performant, scalable and cost-optimized solutions in the cloud. Due to its criticality, I am going to explore many storage options available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for fulfilling different use cases. Since…

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…

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…

A number of us at CDW had the opportunity to attend Nutanix .NEXT 2019 in Anaheim last week. The attendance was great, the announcements were exciting, and we think it was one of the best Nutanix events yet. One of the best parts of the show was seeing our CDW engineering team members having their…

If you’re not ready for the Windows Server 2008 end-of-support deadline in January 2020, you’re not alone. From my conversations with customers, it seems that many organizations are putting off preparations, prioritizing the urgency of day-to-day tasks over the looming deadline. This often happens when IT infrastructure falls into extended support, and it’s natural for…

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….