Artificial intelligence (AI) has been getting a lot of attention lately, but for a technology company like CDW, looking to provide valuable solutions to customers, it can be challenging to create a new service offering in this area. For one thing, the term AI is very abstract and can transcend many technology areas such as…

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….

It is less than nine months to the date when Windows 7 extended support runs out — on Jan. 14, 2020, to be precise. If a business customer has not upgraded to Windows 10 by then, they will need to pay Microsoft for the privilege of continuing to receive security updates. Of course, it is…

It happens almost by accident. An organization adopts a cloud collaboration suite, giving employees the ability to share files, exchange messages, manage their calendars and set up voice and video calls — all on a single platform. But then the company merges with another organization, which is using a similar platform from another vendor. Meanwhile,…

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…