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Apr 29, 2024
Security
Cybersecurity in Focus 2024: Top Priorities for Canadian Organizations
Case Study
13 min
Our 2024 Canadian Cybersecurity Study highlights the current state of IT security and key issues facing Canadian businesses and offers insights on how to proactively respond to today’s evolving threat environment.
Apr 22, 2024
Cloud
How to Accelerate your Generative AI Pilot with Azure AI
Article
10 min
This blog walks through the value, considerations and methods of introducing generative AI responsibly into your organization. We explore how the adoption can be streamlined while achieving scalability with Microsoft Azure.
Apr 22, 2024
Security
How Cyber Resilient Storage Helps Prepare, Respond and Recover from Cyberattacks
Article
7 min
In this blog, we dig deeper into the importance of building resilient data storage alongside key storage solutions from our partner, IBM, that enable this pursuit.
Apr 18, 2024
Security
5 Strategies to Help Improve Your Security Posture in 2024
Article
11 min
In 2024, as cyberattacks become more prevalent, your organization must ready itself with the right practices and technology. Here are five simple yet impactful ways organizations can build cyber resilience, enabled by our cybersecurity partners.
Apr 17, 2024
Data Center
How HPE GreenLake Delivers On-Premises VDI with On-Demand Scaling
Article
7 min
Virtual desktops offer effective security and simpler management for a distributed workforce across the entire desktop experience. Let’s learn the basics of the technology along with how HPE GreenLake for VDI can help meet your VDI needs.
Apr 10, 2024
Digital Workspace
Ease Your IT Team’s Workload While Still Covering All Your Endpoint Needs
Article
5 min
In times of hybrid work, IT departments tend to be swamped; CDW’s lifecycle services can help alleviate your IT team’s workload so they have time to focus on mission-critical tasks.
SECURITY
Create a Secure Digital Environment
Helping to protect you—and your end users—from security breaches.
Apr 29, 2024
Security
Cybersecurity in Focus 2024: Top Priorities for Canadian Organizations
Case Study
13 min
Our 2024 Canadian Cybersecurity Study highlights the current state of IT security and key issues facing Canadian businesses and offers insights on how to proactively respond to today’s evolving threat environment.
Apr 22, 2024
Security
How Cyber Resilient Storage Helps Prepare, Respond and Recover from Cyberattacks
Article
7 min
In this blog, we dig deeper into the importance of building resilient data storage alongside key storage solutions from our partner, IBM, that enable this pursuit.
Apr 18, 2024
Security
5 Strategies to Help Improve Your Security Posture in 2024
Article
11 min
In 2024, as cyberattacks become more prevalent, your organization must ready itself with the right practices and technology. Here are five simple yet impactful ways organizations can build cyber resilience, enabled by our cybersecurity partners.
Apr 09, 2024
Security
How to Measure the Effectiveness & ROI of Offensive Security Assessments
White Paper
9 min
Implementing offensive security through penetration testing and red team exercises is a cornerstone of a proactive cybersecurity strategy. To ensure these assessments can maximize ROI, it is essential to define clear objectives and scope beforehand.
Mar 06, 2024
Security
5 Cybersecurity Use Cases Leveraging AI that Signal a Paradigm Shift
Article
10 min
Cybersecurity professionals are looking to speed up threat detection and reduce the costs associated with cyberincident recovery. Learn how Cisco’s latest AI solutions can help make cybersecurity administration more intuitive for security teams.
Feb 29, 2024
Security
How to Leverage Microsoft 365 Defender for Maximizing Cybersecurity in 2024
Article
8 min
In this blog, David Izzard, Senior Manager of Executive Tech Strategy at CDW Canada, shares how organizations can investigate threats with Microsoft 365 Defender before they become security incidents.
DATA CENTRE
Enhance your Data Centre
Learn about the cutting edge technology that makes up the modern data centre.
Apr 17, 2024
Data Center
How HPE GreenLake Delivers On-Premises VDI with On-Demand Scaling
Article
7 min
Virtual desktops offer effective security and simpler management for a distributed workforce across the entire desktop experience. Let’s learn the basics of the technology along with how HPE GreenLake for VDI can help meet your VDI needs.
Feb 01, 2024
Data Center
The Future of Virtualization - Strategic Guidance for VMware and Alternatives
Article
4 min
The Broadcom acquisition of VMware has raised concerns in the business community. In this blog post, CDW aims to clarify the strategic vision that is considered essential for users of the product to understand.
Jan 12, 2024
Data Center
High Voltage in the Data Centre – What Canadian IT Teams Need to Know
Article
8 min
Let’s explore how IT teams can smartly leverage high voltage in data centres to their benefit alongside planning power backups in a way that helps them win back their equipment budgets.
Jan 08, 2024
Data Center
Shield Your Business from These 4 Microsoft 365 Data Loss Threats
Article
9 min
This blog can help you understand the key factors involved in mastering Microsoft 365 backup implementation and how to solve the most pressing data protection challenges.
Dec 08, 2023
Data Center
Choosing the Right Infrastructure for Generative AI – 3 Keys to Success
Article
4 min
To capitalize on artificial intelligence, organizations must avoid common pitfalls associated with choosing infrastructure to support development.
Aug 16, 2023
Data Center
HPE Makes a Splash with GreenLake Cloud and AI Announcements at Discover 2023
Article
10 min
AI will be the most disruptive technology of our lifetime and 2023 will be remembered as a historic technology inflection point: HPE CEO Antonio Neri.
DIGITAL WORKSPACE
Embrace new ways of working
Apr 10, 2024
Digital Workspace
Ease Your IT Team’s Workload While Still Covering All Your Endpoint Needs
Article
5 min
In times of hybrid work, IT departments tend to be swamped; CDW’s lifecycle services can help alleviate your IT team’s workload so they have time to focus on mission-critical tasks.
Mar 25, 2024
Digital Workspace
How to Make Amazing Customer Experience Happen with RingCentral AI
Article
9 min
This blog discusses the main problems that can prevent companies from improving their customer service. It also explores how RingCentral's AI technology can help address these issues.
Mar 18, 2024
Digital Workspace
How UCaaS is Transforming Customer Service in the Cloud Era
Article
12 min
Could UCaaS solutions help resolve your customer service woes? If yes, what kind of UCaaS solution will fit your organizational structure? This blog aims to answer those questions and more.
Mar 11, 2024
Digital Workspace
4 Key Zebra Technologies to Help Automate Your Small Business
Article
7 min
Let’s take a look at 4 key automation technologies that can make a huge difference in your small-business efficiency and profitability. These solutions are from our partner Zebra, a global leader in data capture, automation and mobile technologies.
Mar 01, 2024
Digital Workspace
3 Keys to Collaboration in Healthcare and the Technology that Can Help
Article
4 min
How does a healthcare professional begin to meet the growing need for technology across clinical settings? Start with these three important considerations, and see how CDW and our partners at Poly can help.
Feb 28, 2024
Digital Workspace
Make Amazing Hybrid Work Happen with the New AI-Powered Cisco Webex
Article
9 min
Cisco Webex has introduced AI-driven capabilities across its suite of virtual collaboration tools. Let’s explore why you would want to try Webex for hybrid collaboration at your organization and what to expect in your next AI-assisted meeting.
CLOUD
Complete your Cloud Journey
Apr 22, 2024
Cloud
How to Accelerate your Generative AI Pilot with Azure AI
Article
10 min
This blog walks through the value, considerations and methods of introducing generative AI responsibly into your organization. We explore how the adoption can be streamlined while achieving scalability with Microsoft Azure.
Apr 05, 2024
Cloud
4 Core Elements to Include in Your Multicloud Data Protection Strategy
Article
8 min
Whether you’re already using a multicloud architecture or plan to shift toward it, you need a comprehensive multicloud data protection strategy. This blog offers insights into the challenges, solutions and core elements of multicloud data protection.
Jan 17, 2024
Cloud
How Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Can Help Your Hybrid Cloud Plans
Article
11 min
Learn how Cisco provides organizations with universal policy, consistent routing, security and an operational model for multicloud environments, adding flexibility and accelerating business agility and elasticity.
Nov 08, 2023
Cloud
5 Ways to Determine the Right Disaster Recovery as a Service Solution for You
Article
5 min
DRaaS in public cloud offers advantages like cloud economics, reliability, ease of use and flexibility to support infrequent, unpredictable disaster scenarios. Here’s 5 factors to consider when evaluating public cloud as a solution for your DR needs.
Sep 25, 2023
Cloud
How Canadian Organizations Should Think About Cloud Optimization
Article
4 min
Most organizations currently use some type of cloud service for IT, but many are now evaluating their operational expenses, seeking to optimize their cloud spend.
Sep 12, 2023
Cloud
Infographic: Hybrid Cloud Trends in Canada in 2023
Article
3 min
What are the trends shaping digital infrastructure strategies in Canada? Discover some of the key findings from CDW Canada’s 2023 Canadian Hybrid Cloud Report in this infographic.