Today’s data centers are undergoing major transformations. With the rise of the software-defined data center (SDDC) and converged infrastructure, organizations have gone a long way toward eliminating siloed management and optimizing on-premises resources. Server virtualization, meanwhile, has simplified existing systems to reduce the burden on IT staff, lower the total cost of ownership and prepare organizations for cloud migration. Hear from CDW experts as they discuss even more ways emerging data center technologies are decreasing workloads, expanding data and storage capabilities, and driving innovation across industries.
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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….
Once upon a time — and not all that long ago — the data center was the only place for IT workloads to run. If an organization needed to process large amounts of data, that’s where it happened. But the emergence of the cloud, coupled with the rise of digital transformation and the Internet of…
I frequently see a common pattern in my customers’ use of containers — lightweight packaging to build, ship and run applications — in the data center. First, data center administrators download Kubernetes, an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications. They’ll experiment with the tools for a while, recognize the value…
One of VMware’s big technology pushes of 2018 into 2019 has been around VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC). When the leader in virtualization collaborates with the leader in public cloud, some amazing things can happen. VMC has some great features and allows customers to move their VMware workloads into AWS easily and efficiently using the…
