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Automation in the SDDC: Making Businesses More Resilient to Change

With flexibility more important than ever, the software-defined data center can help organizations respond quickly to shifting priorities.

By Mark Yorko
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August 3, 2020
Data Center

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.

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5 Touchstones on the Path to IT Modernization

Organizations must position themselves to adapt to a rapidly changing IT landscape.

By Urban Haas
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January 29, 2020
Data Center, Cloud, Software

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.

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4 Ways Cisco SD-Access Improves Network Management and Security

By simplifying network automation, Software-Defined Access delivers useful capabilities such as segmentation and intent-based policy implementation.

By CDW Expert  and Robert Herriage
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November 25, 2019
Networking, Security, Services

Many organizations have embraced software-defined innovations such as the software-defined data center and the software-defined WAN, taking advantage of programmability and automation to simplify the management of their networks and other data center resources. What’s been missing, until recently, was a way to achieve the same benefits at the access layer of the network.

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Building a Data Center Roadmap

With automation and multicloud technologies impacting the data center, management services become more important.

By Urban Haas
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October 16, 2019
Data Center

Data centers have changed quite a bit since pizza boxes reigned supreme. We replaced those servers with virtualization, reducing our physical footprint and utilizing more of the CPUs and memory. Next came the idea of fully tested systems in the form of converged infrastructure: making sure different components of compute, storage and networking worked well…

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How CDW Services Can Support Your VMware Cloud on AWS Deployment

Combining virtualization and public cloud is a win-win for organizations, especially when assisted by CDW.

By Brandon Jackson  and Chris Jostock
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April 8, 2019
Data Center, Cloud, Services

One of VMware’s big technology pushes of 2018 into 2019 has been around VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC). When the leader in virtualization collaborates with the leader in public cloud, some amazing things can happen. VMC has some great features and allows customers to move their VMware workloads into AWS easily and efficiently using the…

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4 Technologies That Support the Move to Software-Defined Data Centers

The SDDC reduces administrative burdens on IT shops, freeing up staffers for projects that create business value.

By CDW Expert
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January 30, 2019
Data Center, Cloud, Networking, Software

In the past decade, organizations across all industries have come to realize that new technologies and methodologies can eliminate many of the management challenges that have traditionally been a part of supporting email and other applications. Today, the same thing is happening with storage, computing and networking. While cloud software has streamlined software support, technologies…

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