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Dialing In the Right Managed Services Option for AWS

A managed service provider can prevent cloud sprawl, proactively address problems and help organizations meet their business goals.

By Ken Mosby
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November 6, 2020
Cloud, Services

I recently fielded a call from a school district that had moved some virtual machines into the cloud with Amazon Web Services. The district had an initial scope (and budget) for just 30 VMs but then quickly expanded to well over 100 cloud instances. Predictably, costs skyrocketed.

This might look like an unforced error on the part of district officials. But even large enterprises with sophisticated IT shops often run into problems when they first migrate resources to the public cloud. They may let costs run out of control due to sprawl, for example, or have trouble maintaining an environment that complies with specific industry regulations, such as HIPAA, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

One simple solution to these problems is to enter a partnership with a trusted managed service provider such as CDW. Relying on deep experience developed over years of working closely with organizations in virtually all industries, an effective MSP can help businesses monitor and optimize their cloud environments for cost, performance, security and compliance.

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4 Trends Driving Managed Services Adoption

By working with a trusted MSP on managing their technology environments, businesses can get more value from their internal IT staff.

By Andy Brolin
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July 13, 2020
Services

I’ve always enjoyed mowing my lawn, dating back even to when I was a kid. And I always thought it seemed like an extravagance to pay a lawn service to do something I could do myself — I just couldn’t justify the expense. But, years ago, my thinking changed. I realized that I was missing out on precious time with my kids because I was spending half my summer weekends on yard work.

We’re seeing this same sort of shift in mindset happening more frequently among business and IT leaders regarding managed IT services. For many IT leaders, the prevailing school of thought used to be: “Why hire a partner to provide managed services for tasks we can do ourselves?” That’s changing to: “Why should we do these tasks ourselves, when they keep our staff from tackling more important projects?”

Here are four trends I see driving adoption of managed IT services.

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5 Lesser-Known Benefits of Device as a Service

Organizations can tap DaaS to drive revenue and productivity and to cut costs over the life of their contracts.

By CDW Expert
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January 27, 2020
Digital Workspace, Services

Device as a Service — the subscription model for deploying mobile devices and endpoints — can not only simplify IT management, but also enable organizations to shift costs from a capital expense to an operating expense. But those attractive outcomes aren’t the only justifications for adopting DaaS.

Here are five additional ways organizations can obtain a positive ROI from a device subscription engagement.

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Need a Hybrid Cloud Expert? These 5 Steps Can Help Bridge the Skills Gap

Follow these tips to ensure your organization can support an effective, efficient IT architecture.

By John Rubin
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January 20, 2020
Cloud, Services

Hybrid cloud is often seen as a “best of both worlds” approach, giving businesses the scalability and agility of the public cloud while also allowing them to host some workloads in their own data centers for cost, security or other reasons. But managing the complexity introduced by a hybrid cloud requires specific skills, many of which employees might lack. Consider taking the following steps to ensure that you have the expertise needed to support a hybrid cloud approach.

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3 Best Practices for Reviewing Your Collaboration Environment

Make better business decisions and save money by collecting the right information as part of your collaboration business review.

By Andy Kleinheinz
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December 16, 2019
Digital Workspace

In my tenure as a technical architect, I have witnessed a great evolution in collaboration business reviews. What once was simply reviewing system compute, versions and tickets is now so much more.

So what should organizations prioritize when reviewing their collaboration environments?

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How to Address 3 Next-Generation Firewall Management Challenges

Critical but labor-intensive security tasks are a good fit for CDW Managed Services.

By Ben Mason
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October 22, 2019
Services, Security

Organizations face many challenges when it comes to keeping their operations secure and driving the most value from their next-generation firewalls (NGFWs). How to overcome these challenges is one of the most common discussions I have with customers. They often don’t have the personnel resources to tackle these important but mundane tasks. One fix is…

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