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3 weeks ago | cdw.com | Bob Keaveney

At first glance, a cloud migration might not seem like a big lift for a company such as Jim’s Formal Wear. Unlike big chain stores, it mostly works behind the scenes through independently owned retail stores to rent and sell tuxedoes and other men’s formal wear. Even so, when CIO Jeff Thurston began the process of migration his hodgepodge of on-premises technology to the Google Cloud Platform, he knew he didn’t want to go it alone — and in the end he’s glad he didn’t.

1 month ago | cdw.com | Rebecca Torchia

Physical security technologies have come a long way, said CDW’s Bryan Krause, senior national school safety strategist, and Tom Ashley, education strategist, at CoSN 2025. Previously, all schools could do with camera footage, for example, was review incidents after they happened. “That might be a student, or it might be bigfoot,” Krause said, remembering times he reviewed footage on older cameras with poor visibility. Now, cameras are much more powerful.

1 month ago | cdw.com | Joe Kuehne

Participants:Pete Johnson, Artificial Intelligence Field CTO, CDW Video Highlights:While many C-suite executives are pushing IT teams to adopt artificial intelligence quickly, it’s important to first identify your business objectives. Generative AI is at a similar stage of maturity as cloud migration was in 2009: It’s still early, and strategies are still developing. Thinking about solutions first instead of products is one way to help simplify demonstrating ROI for AI.

1 month ago | cdw.com | Joe Kuehne

Participants:Kevin Kaiser, Director, Artificial Intelligence Practice, CDW Video Highlights:Establishing clear-cut expectations with defined metrics for success is the best avenue for organizations to become successful in actually realizing ROI from artificial intelligence projects. Many, but not all, AI use cases have a clearly defined set of metrics to measure ROI depending on the desired business outcome. Implementing AI is not a linear conversation.

2 months ago | cdw.com | Buck Bell |Jill Klein |Oscar de Leon |Torbin Lancaster

Historically, industrial control systems have largely been isolated from broader networks. However, the rise of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things has blurred these boundaries, leading to the convergence of operational technology and IT. This interconnection opens the door to powerful capabilities, but it can also expose organizations to potentially catastrophic cybersecurity risks.