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To prepare for a better future, we must modernise the data centre

15 November, 2018 / by Jess Poulter posted in Data Centre Modernisation, Nutanix

Think of the businesses you love buying from. The chances are they all have one important characteristic in common. Put simply, they seem to understand what you want and they provide it in a format that feels personalised, valuable, easy-to-use and always available. As a result, they are probably leaders in their markets, whether they are offering coffee, cabs or Christmas gifts.
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Nutanix Intelligent Infrastructure Management

15 November, 2018 / by Jess Poulter posted in Data Centre Modernisation, Nutanix

Make weekend IT emergencies a thing of the past with intelligent infrastructure management from CDW and Nutanix. The weekend call is the one we all dread the most. For enterprise IT managers with responsibility for ageing data centre infrastructure these interruptions have often been too common for comfort.
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Microsoft Windows 10 - Leverage Windows Migration to Build a Better Future

28 September, 2018 / by Paul Morrison posted in Microsoft, Digital Workspace

What do you want your IT environment to look like in 13 months’ time? The question is highly relevant, because the decisions made today define the way organisations operate in 2020 when the support for Windows 7 ends. Ignoring this will not make it go away and organisations are strongly advised to consider the potential cost of doing nothing.
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Microsoft Windows 10 - Five Platform Migration Risks For Windows 7 Users

28 September, 2018 / by Paul Morrison posted in Microsoft, Digital Workspace

An alarming number of organisations using Windows 7 are unprepared for the migration that will become essential when Microsoft ends support for the platform in less than 18 months1. This creates technical, financial and cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The cost of doing nothing could become too high to even contemplate. Now is the time to act but the migration itself can create risks.
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Microsoft Windows 10 - Change The Way Employees Work With CDW’s Windows Migration Support

28 September, 2018 / by Paul Morrison posted in Microsoft, Digital Workspace

Upgrading from Windows 7 presents organisations with an opportunity to fundamentally rethink the way users work. Designed with mobility in mind, Windows 10 delivers the flexibility employees crave, whilst providing the technology needed for efficient remote working.
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Microsoft Surface - What's Driving The Rise of Surface in Enterprise IT?

25 September, 2018 / by Dominic Trowman posted in Microsoft, Digital Workspace

Microsoft's premium Surface devices are a growing presence in enterprise environments. However, the increasing popularity of the Surface family should come as no surprise.
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Microsoft Surface - What's the Big Idea?

25 September, 2018 / by Dominic Trowman posted in Microsoft, Digital Workspace

The world of work is changing. Advances in automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence are allowing technology to take control of tasks that were traditionally handled by humans. By 2020, customers will manage 85% of their relationship with enterprise without any human interaction, according to a forecast from Gartner.
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Microsoft Surface - Making Mobility Work

25 September, 2018 / by Dominic Trowman posted in Microsoft, Digital Workspace

Workplaces are slowly disappearing. In their place we have workspaces. There's a subtle but important difference. Instead of being confined within walls, people are increasingly working in a virtual environment. The digital workspace contains all the tools we need to work effectively but the workspace can exist in an office, a train carriage, an airport or a café. This is the age of anywhere working.
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Microsoft Surface - Empowering People To Deliver Digital Transformation

25 September, 2018 / by Dominic Trowman posted in Microsoft, Digital Workspace

Gartner's most recent survey of CEOs and senior business executives showed that growth remains their number one priority. But as the pathway to growth becomes steeper, the leaders of large enterprise are looking at digital transformation as a driver of improvement.1
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Workstations: Who Needs Them?

23 July, 2018 / by Tom Purves posted in Digital Workspace, HP

The short answer? More users than you think. Today’s technology puts powerful apps, giant databases and huge image files in the hands of individual users right at the desktop. Users across all industries are accessing, editing, manipulating and storing more data—and larger files—than ever before.
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