What’s the current state of multifactor authentication in your organization? If you’re like many of my customers, you might think that MFA is old hat — a problem solved years ago that now just requires a little routine maintenance. If that sounds familiar, it’s probably time for you to re-evaluate the role that MFA plays…
When I talk with customers, many tell me that their data center teams spend around 80 percent of their time “keeping the lights on,” performing routine management and support tasks. There are a number of problems with this situation. First, an employee who spends 80 percent of working hours on rote tasks will be able…
While CDW’s recent Core to Cloud Summit event in Las Vegas was ostensibly focused on cloud and data center technologies, there was a great deal of discussion among both presenters and participants about the people behind the machines. How are organizations tackling the difficulties of filling highly technical IT staff positions in a job market…
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….
Most IT managers understand the potential benefits of adopting orchestration and automation tools within their data centers to streamline the provisioning of private and public cloud resources. These solutions can dramatically speed up the time to value (the period between when a business need arises and when infrastructure fulfills that need). By automating manual tasks…
Due to the popularity of collaboration platforms such as Facebook, Microsoft Teams, Slack and so on, the usage of bots has become increasingly common. Running bots on these platforms can increase productivity, inspire innovation and provide the opportunity for employees to learn new skills. Interested in creating your own bots but unsure how to get…
