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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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How to Make Artificial Intelligence Work for You

A phased approach can turn AI into a tool that will help your organization thrive.

By Tom Leinberger
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May 26, 2020
Software, Data Center, Services

For organizations to realize the potential value of AI, according to McKinsey, their AI strategy must align with their corporate strategy. They need a “clear data strategy that supports and enables AI,” and they must invest in staff and technical training to ensure they have the skills to implement AI at scale.

I keep those imperatives in mind when I work with business and IT leaders who wonder how AI might help their organizations. My advice to them: To get the most out of the technology — to make AI work for you — it pays to take a phased approach to implementation.

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Improve Your Remote Work Capabilities with Solid-State Storage Drives

Advantages in performance, security and durability make SSDs a smart choice.

By Jacob Derry
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May 19, 2020
Data Center, Digital Workspace, Security

As countless organizations have raced to shift their employees to a remote work model using solutions such as videoconferencing tools, many have learned an unfortunate lesson about their user devices: throttled by their hard drives, they often struggle to keep up with the demands of latency-sensitive workloads. Fortunately, there’s a simple — and relatively inexpensive — fix. Solid-state drives (SSDs) can not only provide drastic improvements to performance, but also offer a boost to security and durability.

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Streamline Your Cloud Environment for Better Business Continuity

Companies that have taken steps to simplify their cloud environments are seeing their efforts pay off.

By Dee Baker
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May 4, 2020
Cloud, Data Center

Organizations have a number of compelling reasons to reduce complexity in their cloud environments, including lower costs, improved security and optimized performance, to name a few. One other benefit of highly efficient cloud environments often gets overlooked, but is a major consideration right now: business continuity. In a way, the COVID-19 crisis is the world’s largest business continuity exercise. We’re seeing right now, in very real terms, how organizations’ IT environments hold up to previously unimaginable challenges.

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How the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Cloud Helps Migrate Collaboration to the Cloud

This managed solution provides a secure and highly redundant service for organizations looking to transition to the cloud or find a hybrid solution.

By Matt Toltzien  and Andy Kleinheinz
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April 30, 2020
Cloud, Data Center, Services

With demand for businesses to consume collaboration services in the cloud at an all-time high right now, CDW has added the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Cloud (UCM Cloud) solution to its Managed Collaboration Anywhere (MCA) portfolio. This portfolio now includes managed collaboration solutions covering the complete Cisco Hosted and Cloud Calling portfolio of Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS), Cisco UCM Cloud and Cisco Webex Calling. Cisco is currently providing collaboration solutions that deliver enterprise-grade service to more than 100 million devices.

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Challenges and Solutions for the Connected Factory

Manufacturers looking to optimize operational efficiency must overcome these three hurdles.

By Aaron Lagowski
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April 28, 2020
Data Center, Digital Workspace

Any manufacturer with a complex production line understands the importance of having a connected factory. By deploying machines that can communicate and share data with a central system, a manufacturer can adapt to operational needs in real time to drive efficiencies and improve the bottom line. But connected factories also face challenges that can hamper success if left unaddressed.

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Why Companies Opt for a Cloud Migration — Part 1

A closer look at the specific business needs that are driving organizations to move data to cloud storage.

By Yagna Pant
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April 21, 2020
Cloud, Data Center

Due to various factors such as cost-efficiency, flexibility and availability, organizations are trying to leverage the infrastructure from various cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google and IBM. Within the CDW cloud practice, we are finding that organizations are taking different paths. Some organizations are in an early experimental stage as they try to understand the various capabilities provided by the cloud, while other customers are fully operating in the cloud.

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