City leaders may know they need a smart city strategy to attract and grow business, and to connect and serve citizens. But often, achieving the desired outcomes is harder than it sounds. These initiatives vary widely, with some struggling to get off the ground, while others achieve significant successes, such as aligning disparate, siloed systems.

To help establish the kind of success that drives further investment, I often suggest focusing on the development of the smart city “nervous system” platforms — the place where humans and data intersect for the purpose of better decision-making.

Back when Red Hat started selling Linux, open source software was considered a radical notion in the technology world. Over the next decade, open source became more and more prevalent and essential to the DevOps industry, which itself has become a way to accelerate digital business innovation.

This blog post will cover some of the major milestones in Red Hat’s development and its relationship to DevOps.

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, some organizations had a difficult time responding to the new IT needs of their end users. Shifting resources to accommodate a largely remote work environment proved to be a complicated endeavor. And, as IT staffers’ time and energies were focused on supporting these new workflows, routine maintenance and support tasks began to pile up.

But some companies tended to have an easier time with the shift. One common denominator for these organizations: They largely relied on software-defined solutions in their data centers. Find out why.

Driving greater automation is a process that underlies most every project in the data center. It’s an important business differentiator that can help determine an organization’s success. And like all good things, there are lots of problems that gum it up. Having greater awareness of some of these roadblocks will help you see and address them sooner.

Three of the most common problems you’ll encounter are: long system uptime, manual restarts and dated processes. This post will help you address them and strengthen your automation efforts.

The pace of change in IT is only accelerating, with many industry observers predicting that we’ll see the same amount of change over the next two to five years as we did in the past 10 or 15.

We’re already moving toward a world where data centers are able to handle 100,000 or more microservices, each created and ended on demand, in real time. But to get there, organizations will need to undertake another round of IT modernization. Here are some of the capabilities that organizations should consider as they get started.

It’s been more than a year since CDW first published the “Smart Data for Finance” white paper, and much has changed in the industry and at CDW. We’ve broadened our analytics practice to cover many different industries and brought in subject matter experts who can tailor analytics solutions to the needs of many diverse businesses….