One of the main responsibilities in my job as an architect is to look at what’s happening in the industry, discuss with people closest to the sources and then experience the innovations for myself to help set direction for CDW and provide recommendations to our customers. When I first saw the Surface Hub, I didn’t…
The power of Platform as a Service lies in its ability to bolster profitability and productivity. Microsoft Azure’s PaaS and App Service offerings, in particular, give organizations a wealth of options that can help make enterprise IT more competitive. In an earlier blog, I explained the three P’s of PaaS: people, process and platform. In…
CDW recently participated in a Microsoft four-day hackathon to create a proof-of-concept solution that would provide a more customized workspace and solve the problem of an overburdened IT department that uses ServiceNow as its customer relationship management (CRM) platform. How It Came Together CDW’s idea for a solution was twofold: First, we aimed to decrease…
If you’re supervising a network, at some point you may have had the same thought that I did: I wish I could take two commands in PowerShell and somehow merge them into one report in PowerShell. That way, I won’t have to refer to multiple outputs of data to look at something meaningful. That is…
If Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT) are starting to wear you out, blame information overload — and not just because they’re the topics of just about every article and PowerPoint presentation these days. The fatigue comes more from the struggle of analyzing all that data so you can act on it. And…
Why consider Microsoft 365 Business? Are you looking for a secure platform to enable collaboration within and outside the organization’s boundaries? Are you looking for a secure platform that provides the ability to connect regardless of device and location? Are you looking to securely simplify management of your IT services and devices? Are you working…
When Microsoft introduced Office 365 in 2010, few enterprises ran all of their mission-critical business applications in the cloud. That’s changed dramatically over the last seven years. In fact, in July, Microsoft announced that revenue from its cloud-based Office 365 surpassed that from its legacy software for the first time ever. The reason is simple:…
Microsoft Ignite is taking place in Orlando this week. As expected, there have been numerous announcements that will have wide-ranging impacts on the industry going forward. As I did last year for Ignite 2016, this post is a collection of observations and my thoughts on what some of this means for the industry. This is…
The end users of many on-premises and hosted Cisco Unified Communication customers have never been able to communicate natively from their Cisco Jabber clients to their third-party business partners who use Microsoft’s Lync or Skype for Business. It’s as if they were on opposite sides of a river with no “bridge” to cross, leaving them…
In the first blog of this series, Components of a Holistic Mobility Solution we described several components that are integral to a full mobility solution. This included the management of devices and applications, applications and client virtualization, data access and protection as well as identity management. In this post, we are going to discuss mobile…
