Services

Recently, a large retail chain approached CDW for help incorporating mobile devices into its business model. The company was building a new set of mobile apps that would both assist customers ordering services and help employees do their jobs. But business leaders were wary of managing thousands of new devices throughout their scattered franchise locations….

“Shut the h*ll up and listen.” I don’t know if it was because it was provocative or because it was yelled at me, but the above phrase was the first piece of advice from a mentor that I can remember that actually sunk in. At the time, I was a 23-year-old recent college grad with…

In January 2003, I came to CDW from a career in the banking industry. I applied for a sales position — an area I was familiar with and one for which I was incredibly qualified. I didn’t know technology at the time, but I knew how to study and how to talk to people. Around…

Businesses of all sizes are embracing public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions to improve efficiencies, drive innovation and increase responsiveness to competitors and the market. In fact, analyst firm Gartner predicts adoption of public IaaS services will grow “38.6% in 2017 and reach $34.6 billion.” Despite the popularity and numerous benefits of public IaaS,…

Over the years, I’ve seen a remarkable shift in the way organizations approach their cybersecurity strategies. After the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) debuted, most security programs focused on compliance issues. Organizations scrambled to ensure their operations were up to par before the…

“This stuff is hard,” said Michael Glover, vice president of IT Infrastructure at a Fortune 500 retail company. “Either I put the wrong workloads into the public cloud, which should have stayed on-prem, my monthly bill jumps 70 percent from its usual baseline, or I can’t find an excellent cloud resource for mundane, too-deep-in-the-weeds development…