CDW Canada Tech Talks

Applying the Cloud Model to Your Data Centre

Episode Summary

In this episode, KJ Burke and Jason Allan from CDW and Dan Nitta Mackay from Intel discuss how organizations should automate, streamline and standardize on-premises equipment and how to maximize investment by operating workloads appropriately (on-prem vs cloud), automating and orchestrating new services within the data centre.

Episode Notes

In this episode, we discuss…

• How to identify the best place to operate applications
• Three best practices for looking at technology decisions
• Challenges that customers are facing with migrating workloads to the cloud, and what’s driving them to build cloud-like environments in their data centre
• Data activation over time, and how it could be a potential issue
• The need for specific talent and technologies within a multicloud environment and how businesses are leveraging managed services providers to fill the skills gap
• How does choosing where to run applications change when you’re using containers or VM-based solutions?
• Intel IT’s Multi-Cloud Strategy: Focused on the Business