As they seek to enable remote work, many organizations are implementing new ways for employees to access and share data. This is all necessary to enable business continuity, but it’s possible (and perhaps even probable) that organizations are unwittingly opening up new security vulnerabilities as they introduce new technologies and workflows. Unless an IT shop employs professionals with deep expertise in cybersecurity, the prospect of hunting around for unknown security gaps can be incredibly daunting. That’s where cybersecurity assessments from a partner like CDW come in.

Organizations have a number of compelling reasons to reduce complexity in their cloud environments, including lower costs, improved security and optimized performance, to name a few. One other benefit of highly efficient cloud environments often gets overlooked, but is a major consideration right now: business continuity. In a way, the COVID-19 crisis is the world’s largest business continuity exercise. We’re seeing right now, in very real terms, how organizations’ IT environments hold up to previously unimaginable challenges.

The routing protocol Location ID Separation Protocol or LISP is a feature rich protocol that is continually evolving and has many business use cases. I’ll be discussing LISP mobility in more detail in future blog post.

It seems today that you can’t escape a technology based discussion without cloud computing being mentioned – ten times. 

The vendors of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software continue to promote and propagate that it’s the way of the future.  One of the current issues with this data center solution segment is the DCIM definition.   It’s often difficult to justify the purchase of a solution, when the solution definition is very broad.  Let’s take…