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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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…
It’s a common story in IT: An enterprise is running servers that are 5, 6 or 7 years old (sometimes including equipment that is no longer even supported by the vendor), simply because there’s no room in the existing IT budget to fund an upgrade. But when organizations plan carefully, they often find that they’re…
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…
Sometimes, instead of evolving slowly, technology takes a giant leap forward. When this happens for one part of IT, everything else effectively becomes a bottleneck, and further changes must take place to bring the rest of the IT environment up to the new standard of performance. This has happened recently with storage. After flash storage…
