As the calendar turns over to 2020 in a few weeks, you can count on a few things: college football on New Year’s Day, gyms packed full of people promising that…
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…
At its annual U.S. conference in Las Vegas, VMworld 2018, VMware announced new capabilities and feature enhancements to its offering, VMware Cloud on AWS. This post will briefly discuss some of my favorites. Expansion to Asia-Pacific Region Prior to the announcement at VMworld 2018, VMware Cloud on AWS was available in four regions: AWS U.S….
— Written by Troy Brick-Margelofsky, Brandon Jackson and Stephan Stelter Public cloud, just like private cloud, has advantages and disadvantages, depending on the circumstances in which it is used. That’s why almost every organization will gravitate toward some combination of cloud solutions that best achieves its business goals, performance expectations and requirements for security and…
In an IDG survey conducted for CDW’s “The Modern IT Infrastructure Insight Report,” 58 percent of IT professionals said it’s challenging to align their departmental strategies with corporate goals. Among organizations with extensive hybrid IT environments, that perception jumps to 68 percent. IT pros have good reason to take on this challenge, because certain high-level…
Data is growing exponentially, and it’s changing the way organizations perform fundamental activities: engaging customers, developing market strategy, making business decisions, optimizing operations and identifying new revenue streams. Data is at the core of digital transformation, a holistic business strategy that leverages the Internet of Things (IoT), data-driven insights and cloud solutions to drive business…
