2022 CDW CLOUD REPORT

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In the face of ongoing organizational disruptions, digitization has provided long-term business benefits that are driving continued and accelerated digital transformation. No matter where organizations are in their hybrid cloud journey, the report reveals how Canadian organizations can advance and optimize their strategy to remain agile in the evolving digital landscape.

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THE CDW WAY

Accelerating and Enhancing Business Digitization with Hybrid Cloud

The pandemic has caused Canadian organizations to rethink their digital strategy and change how they conduct business, deliver services and enhance customer experiences.

A hybrid IT approach allows companies to benefit from the agility, scalability and specialized tools of public cloud along with the optimization and controlled ownership of the traditional data centre. Our IDC Canada cross-industry study of hybrid cloud solutions discovered that Canadian organizations are increasingly aligning their IT investment strategy with business outcomes, underscoring the value and benefit of advancing hybrid cloud processes.

90% of organizations are using external outcomes to help drive their digital strategy. The top two are reducing the overall cost of doing business, and speeding new applications to market.

THE CDW STRATEGY

Closing gaps and aligning new technologies with skills and talents.

Prepare for anything that may emerge

Defend against disruptions methodologically

Respond without panic

Our team believes that when it comes to building a strong cybersecurity strategy, one should leave no stone unturned. We have developed a full appreciation of how an organization can adequately prepare, defend and respond to today’s threat landscape.

The best approach is to follow the study guidelines that centre on the technologies and processes proven to get industry-best results for different situations, and have the right skills and talents in your corner to analyze, advise and deploy these technologies.

Clients who take the time to understand the magnitude of the threat to their business appreciate the challenges ahead. Tackling the forces aligned against organizations is a collaborative effort that should strengthen security posture significantly.

THE CDW STRATEGY

It’s Not About Where You’re Operating, It’s How You’re Operating

Portability

As business needs shift, infrastructure architects that support the portabilty of workloads and applications are critical to meet fluid business objectives.

Observability

To better ensure positive customer experiences, it is critical to have real-time view of how your applications are being used so you can monitor and troubleshoot challenges to help improve customer experiences, service-level agreements and business requirements.

Manageability

Automated operational support is essential as IT teams need to support more services spread across private and public infrastructure. Managing not only physical and virtual servers but also containers and cloud-native services requires IT teams to use mature process and tools.

Resiliency

Managing private and public infrastructure has become increasingly complex. The way applications are architected must be adapted to take advantage of the full benefits of these new tools.

Security

To prepare, defend and respond to threats in hybrid IT environments, it is critical organizations create a comprehensive, framework-based approach to cloud security.

Portability

As business needs shift, infrastructure architects that support the portabilty of workloads and applications are critical to meet fluid business objectives.

Observability

Manageability

Resiliency

Managing private and public infrastructure has become increasingly complex. The way applications are architected must be adapted to take advantage of the full benefits of these new tools.

Security

To prepare, defend and respond to threats in hybrid IT environments, it is critical organizations create a comprehensive, framework-based approach to cloud security.

Cloud trends enhancing business operations

Our study reveals key enabling technologies and approaches play crucial roles in allowing organizations to determine how they can operate, not where they must operate.

Containerization and Microservices

The report shows containerization and microservices are emerging as key enabling technologies. Many Canadian organizations already describe containers, microservices and orchestration as being, at minimum, an important long-term building blocks for the future.

DevOps

Canadian organizations understand the power of DevOps and agile benefits, including the increased quality, speed, productivity and effectiveness of applications and services development and deployment.

Zero-Trust Architecture

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: The study observes AI/ML extending uses to organizations that do not accommodate in-house resources, model development, training and maintenance.

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