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3 Big Benefits of VDI for Remote Work

Virtual desktop infrastructure can help organizations boost performance, enhance IT governance and enable elasticity.

By Alex Doud  and Roberto Medina
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March 10, 2021
Digital Workspace, Data Center

Over the past year, organizations have turned to a wide array of solutions to help power remote work. One of the most effective has been virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), which allows companies to centralize their IT resources and provide users with remote access to a consolidated pool of compute power.

While VDI may not be the right fit for every business, the model can provide a solid foundation to enable a remote work environment that is both powerful and secure. Here are three significant benefits that organizations can achieve through VDI.

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Choosing Your Next Data Center Fabric: Cisco’s ACI or EVPN, Part 3

Key differentiators between Cisco’s fabric options, Application Centric Infrastructure and Ethernet VPN.

By Craig Weinhold
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March 2, 2021
Data Center, Digital Workspace, Networking, Security

Cisco customers have a choice between Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Ethernet VPN (EVPN) for building their data center network fabrics. Since these technologies are thought to be interchangeable, the choice often falls to cultural, political or other “Layer 8” decision-making. But the fabric technologies are, in fact, different in ways both subtle and significant, and one’s choice has a profound impact on fabric orchestration, operations, and staffing.

I hope you’ll join me all the way through this three-part blog series as I compare and contrast these technologies and provide a foundation for deciding on the best choice for your organization’s needs.

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Choosing Your Next Data Center Fabric: Cisco’s ACI or EVPN, Part 2

A technical comparison between Cisco’s fabric options: Application Centric Infrastructure and Ethernet VPN.

By Craig Weinhold
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February 26, 2021
Data Center, Software

Cisco customers have a choice between Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Ethernet VPN (EVPN) for building their data center network fabrics. Since these technologies are thought to be interchangeable, the choice often falls to cultural, political, or other “Layer 8” decision-making. But the fabric technologies are, in fact, different in ways both subtle and significant, and one’s choice has a profound impact on fabric orchestration, operations, and staffing.

I hope you’ll join me all the way through this three-part blog series as I compare and contrast these technologies and provide a foundation for deciding on the best choice for your organization’s needs.

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Choosing Your Next Data Center Fabric: Cisco’s ACI or EVPN, Part 1

A high level comparison between Cisco’s fabric options: Application Centric Infrastructure and Ethernet VPN.

By Craig Weinhold
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February 23, 2021
Data Center, Networking

Cisco customers have a choice between Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Ethernet VPN (EVPN) for building their data center network fabrics. Since these technologies are thought to be interchangeable, the choice often falls to cultural, political or other “Layer 8” decision-making. But the fabric technologies are different in ways both subtle and significant, and one’s choice has a profound impact on fabric orchestration, operations, and staffing.

I hope you’ll join me all the way through this three-part blog series as I compare and contrast these technologies and provide a foundation for deciding on the best choice for your organization’s needs.

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Technology Deployment: Refining the Work-from-Home Persona

With more employees than ever working remotely, organizations must make sure they are providing the devices and tools users need to succeed.

By Kimberly Cook
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July 30, 2020
Digital Workspace, Networking

The COVID-19 pandemic has made widespread remote work the “new normal” — business analysts predict that 25 to 30 percent of people will still be working from home multiple days per week even at the end of next year.

It’s critical that business and IT leaders ensure they are giving users the tools they need to be as productive and secure as possible while working from home. This is done by creating categories of users based on their work styles and technology needs and then providing the appropriate tools. Here are five factors that business and IT leaders should consider as they seek to refine and optimize the work-from-home user personas within their organizations.

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Managing Your Collaboration Environment During Reopening and Beyond

Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are driving collaboration services investments.

By Andy Kleinheinz
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July 6, 2020
Services, Software

As businesses restructure and begin to reopen to a changed business environment, many are realizing the importance of disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) planning ― and how integral collaboration technology is to these plans.

For the last several months, CDW has been busy working with our customers to address these DR and BC needs. Managed services often play a role in these engagements. In this blog, I will cover how CDW helps customers prepare for disaster events, how we help organizations operate during them and, finally, how we can assist in managing the user experience during the reopening stages as well as the “new normal” that will follow.

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