Too often, I see organizations rush headlong into public cloud investments, only to pull resources back on-premises in a matter of months. This is a move so commonplace that we at CDW have a term for it: the Cloud U-turn. The problem, of course, isn’t with the public cloud itself. Countless companies are successfully running…
If you were asked to describe what someone working in the IT industry looked like, how would you describe them? What kind of background and expertise would they have? Are there specific qualities you would look for? Someone that’s tech savvy? Should it be someone who understands the evolution of the industry? Should it be…
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…
Pushing IT resources to the cloud can help nonprofit organizations increase productivity, flexibility and efficiency. But the cloud can also introduce redundancy and confusion when (as is often the case) migrations are done in an ad hoc manner, rather than being meticulously planned out. Often, organizations adopt cloud resources almost by accident, with business units…
With the Internet of Things (IoT), success doesn’t come just from connecting devices. It’s equally important to connect people. IoT’s big promise is enabling new, deep, actionable insights into every aspect of your business: people, processes, buildings, equipment and vehicles, to name just a few. But it can’t deliver on that digital transformation promise if…
For most organizations, software asset management isn’t an urgent priority — not in the way a server going down almost always is. Instead, managing software assets effectively is something IT teams say they want to do, but often don’t get around to doing. Other priorities come first, so they kick the can down the road…
