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Maintaining Power During Storm Season

Surge protectors, UPS devices, generators and a power assessment are key to staying up and running.

By Luis Davila
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June 25, 2020
Services, Data Center

North American weather is impacted by what is known as “storm season.” This aligns with hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. These weather patterns can affect the entire country and they touch our commercial customers in many ways. Power can be disrupted by sudden severe weather conditions that can affect the power grid and produce downtime for your organization.

How can organizations prepare for storm season? Data centers and edge networks need enough capacity and secure endpoints for workers to access their files and applications from anywhere. Employees need access to cloud applications to take full advantage of collaboration tools available to them, and organizations need to protect their power. What follows are some key areas to focus on with storm season preparedness (and a solid work from home strategy), so your users will be able to stay productive and your organization stays functional.

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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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Are You Taking the Right Approach to Backup and Recovery? — Part 1

Knowing the key differences between this core IT function and disaster recovery will help you easily access your data, whatever the drivers are.

By Drew Shanahan
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June 6, 2017
Other

Are you still using tape to store your organization’s critical data? Are those tapes sent offsite daily? How long does it take to restore data if it is deleted, corrupted or destroyed? How will it impact your business? Backup and recovery are at the cornerstone of any IT shop. Above all else – if you…

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The Benefits of Managing Backup Centrally

It’s time to bring physical, virtual and cloud data into one backup and recovery solution.

By CDW Expert
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March 21, 2017
Other

Do you know where your data is? If your organization is like most, you may have your email on Microsoft Exchange, your virtual environment through VMware and you may even have an application or two living in Amazon Web Services. Then, there is all the data sitting on your physical infrastructure, as well as the…

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Help with Data Center Services Decisions

Consider These Factors First

By CDW Expert
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October 13, 2015
Software

IT leadership is all about decision making. While decisions about hardware and software are made routinely during the design phase of a project, data center decisions are made much less frequently. 

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Backup vs. Disaster Recovery – Before and After the Cloud

By CDW Expert
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September 4, 2014
Cloud, Data Center

During my senior year in college (unfortunately many moons ago), I recall an instance where I was furiously trying to finish my senior design lab project with my teammates. Somewhat delirious from lack of sleep and too much caffeine, we were finishing the final pieces of our 200-page proposal and thesis together when the unthinkable…

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