Nearly every day, I have conversations with individuals at enterprises, governments and other organizations who are looking for an alternative to hyperscale public cloud offerings. Often, they’re driven to transform their current processes due to siloed IT environments. Many businesses are addressing these challenges with an on-premises hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution, which provides improved operations…

When we talk about digital transformation, we tend to think first of end-user devices and edge uses: smart objects, automated operations and streamlined processes. But none of those solutions or outcomes is possible without the right back-end infrastructure to support it. Forward-looking organizations must move beyond a “keep the lights on” mentality and strategically design…

Like all things that become a buzzword, there is some truth and some sizzle to the concept of serverless architecture. When I broach the subject with clients that are unfamiliar with the technology, the first questions are almost always the same: “What do you mean by ‘serverless’?” How does it run? To get beyond the…

Benjamin Franklin said, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” If he were alive today, he’d add cybersecurity breaches to that list. In fact, the average number of records lost or stolen in a data breach grew another 1.8 percent over the past year, according to the Ponemon…

At VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, VMware named CDW its HCI Partner of the Year for 2017. Here is what the VMware National Partner Management team had to say about CDW’s success in the commercial, enterprise, government, education and healthcare sectors: “CDW’s robust commitment to VMware HCI is evident across all regions, segments and verticals. Their…

“Science fiction is happening now,” said George Westerman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It is happening as we speak.” Describing how the combination of technologies such as social media, mobile devices, cloud computing and data analytics are driving a breathtaking surge in technological advances, Westerman, principal research scientist for the Initiative on the Digital…