Once you’ve made the decision that a hybrid cloud is the right environment for your company, more choices await. Most important, which solutions will be the most complementary and allow you to achieve the intended benefits? It’s worth noting that when it comes to data center servers, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) consistently ranks as the…

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…