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6 down 1 to go. This week we discuss episode 6 and a host of other items. Topics include homies maturing, travel plans, and BABY WATCH 2025 (for Mr and Mrs Cdw). Other topics include telling kids the truth, gushing over Joel, parenting teens, interpreting dreams and safety vs passion. Curt asks after the fall of civilization is history obsolete and complains about show Ellie. How are you feeling about show Ellie? How are you liking this season? Are you excited for the finale? Let us know on IG @youwatchinpodcast or our Facebook fan page!

En la segunda parte de la quedada de abril Emiliano Madrid y Manuel Barragán nos muestran un par de multi función con escáner e impresora láser que incorporan alimentador de hojas inteligente. Aparte de sus descripciones, nos comparten interesantes usos prácticos. A continuación, Juan Núñez nos habla de un dispositivo muy útil, una grabadora Bluetooth que nos permite grabar conversaciones telefónicas adosándola al móvil de forma magnética. Graba a nuestro interlocutor "por contacto", sin poner el móvil en manos libres y tiene una aplicación móvil que, entre otras cosas, nos permite trascribir e incluso resumir las grabaciones empleando Inteligencia Artificial.   Enlaces: Impresora multifunción láser Color con alimentador de Documentos de 50 Hojas e impresión automática a Doble Cara Brother DCPL3560CDW (la multifunción de la demo de Emiliano).   Impresora multifunción láser Color Brother MFC L 8690 CDW (la que escanea e imprime a doble cara, pero que es muy grande).   Impresora multifunción Profesional láser Color compacta Brother MFCL8390CDW (la que escanea e imprime a doble cara pero más compacta).   Impresora multifunción con Impresión láser automática a doble cara HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP 4302dw (la que tiene Manuel Barragán).   Mini grabadora de voz para móvil SOXOI.   Enlace de descarga en la AppStore para la aplicación FOCASE REC, la cual permite gestionar y configurar la grabadora SOXOI.  

In this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky speaks to Katrina Williams, VP of Sales, CDW, about the importance of continuing to learn about Gen AI to avoid getting left behind.You can learn about CDW at https://www.cdw.com/

You gotta protect the McNuggets! Welcome back to a special request episode from our #1 super fan Mr CDW where we watch 2005's The Longest Yard. Topics include what Marcus has been watching, Courtney Cox (mainly her titties), Ben Affleck, prison punishments, college football and Race in sports. We also discuss Burt Reynolds vs Tom Selleck and Curt call Marcus to the carpet for being difficult towards film and tv. Let us know your thoughts on IG @youwatchinpodcast or our Facebook fan page.

Send us a textIn this episode of The Route to Networking, host George Barnes interviews Tim Russell, Chief Technologist at CDW. Tim shares his unconventional journey from boat mechanic to IT leader, highlighting how hands-on problem-solving led him to a career in networking.He discusses the evolution of communication technologies, the challenges businesses face in adopting innovation, and how AI is transforming both customer and employee experiences. Tim also offers career advice for aspiring network engineers and reflects on the future of hybrid work.To hear more about the latest trends in networking and how technology is shaping the modern workspace, tune in to this insightful conversation!Find out more about Tim in this week's episode of The Route to Networking podcast. Out now!  Connect with Tim:

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January 29, 2025: Dustin Leek, Executive Healthcare Strategist for CDW, explores the necessity of partners with clinical experience and CDW's current focuses. What role does data governance play in unlocking AI's potential in healthcare? As financial pressures mount on health systems, what strategies can CIOs and CTOs employ to maximize operational efficiency without compromising care? You don't want to miss this interview in action.Key Points:02:46 CDW's Unique Team and Approach04:36 Security, Data, and AI07:57 Upcoming Events and Speaking EngagementsSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex's Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

What up? We're back this week with a fireside chat featuring our #1 Super Fan Mr. CDW. In this sprawling conversation Chris shares his story with us. Topics include childhood cultural diversity, sports, influences and interracial relationships. Chris and Marcus debate about Snoop selling out and talk about the benefits of sharing our experiences. We end with a CDW created pop-quiz putting Marcus's best friend claims to the fire. Let us know your thoughts on IG @youwatchinpodcast or our Facebook fan page.

In this episode of Partnerships Unraveled, we dive deep into the transformative power of trusted advisors in the channel with Drew Lydecker, Co-founder and President of AVANT Communications. With a career spanning influential roles at WorldCom, AT&T, and CDW, Drew has firsthand insights into how technology adoption and partner ecosystems have evolved into indispensable drivers of enterprise success.Together, we explore:The shift from brand loyalty to best-of-breed solutions and its impact on decision-making.Why trusted advisors are becoming the cornerstone of IT strategy, navigating choice overload for CIOs and CTOs.The growing role of OpEx models in reshaping the market landscape.Predictions for the channel's evolution over the next five years, and how vendors can align with this seismic shift.Tune in for actionable strategies and Drew's unique perspective on building partnerships that truly last.Connect with Drew  :  https://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-lydecker/_________________________Learn more about Channext

January 15, 2024: Eli Tarlow, Director and Healthcare Strategist at CDW, and Rajeeb Khatua, COO of ReMedi Health Solutions, discuss their strategy to keep health systems afloat during EHR downtimes. CDW's four-base system takes health leaders through a process of ensuring quality continuous care, to equip clinicians with the tools to function on downtime for up to and beyond a month. Get a peek into the future of healthcare preparedness in this solution showcase. Key Points:05:28 Analogy: Healthcare and Aviation10:39 First Base: Assessment 14:41 Second Base: Remediation15:26 Third Base: Soft Tabletop Exercises16:04 Home Run: Downtime Simulation19:06 Financial and Operational ConsiderationsSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex's Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

I'm thrilled to share my interview with Dustin Nelson, Sales Director at CDW, recorded live at Google Cloud's Marketplace Exchange! Dustin dives into how CDW has embraced the marketplace model to meet customers' evolving needs in today's SaaS-driven world, where cloud marketplaces are transforming how organizations buy, manage, and scale solutions. Dustin shares CDW's journey of building a dedicated team to support Google Cloud Marketplace transactions, which has led to impressive growth: over $400 million in marketplace business and 500 transactions this year alone. With customers now at the center, Dustin emphasizes that open collaboration between Google, ISVs, and partners like CDW is crucial for delivering enhanced value and transaction flexibility. For organizations planning their 2025 marketplace strategy, Dustin advises embracing collaboration and focusing on customer-centric approaches to stay ahead in this fast-evolving ecosystem. Tune into this Ultimate Guide to Partnering episode to hear how CDW is sparking the marketplace ecosystem!

Scott Norberg joins Ken Johnson and Seth Law for an episode of Absolute AppSec all about SAST. Scott is an ASP.NET Security Consultant, Author, Researcher and Speaker. In addition to running his Opperis Technologies consultancy, Scott has recently begun working as lead application security architect at CDW. Before that he worked as Lead Application Security engineer at Gallagher and was a Senior Consultant with the AppSec team at Coalfire. He has been a web security specialist for nearly two decades, and holds several certifications, including Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), certifications for ASP.NET and SQL Server, and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and CCSP certification. He also has an MBA from Indiana University. To find out more about Scott check out his website https://scottnorberg.com/ as well as his 2020 book Advanced ASP NET Core Security Vulnerabilities.

Mastering Cybersecurity: From AI Threats to Quantum Encryption - Insights with CDW Join host Jim Love in a riveting discussion with Ivo Wiens, Field CTO for CDW Canada, as they review CDW's cyber security research and discussions with CISO's about the state of cyber security in Canada.  Delve into the sophistication of cyber attacks driven by organized crime and nation-states, and learn about the importance of cyber security frameworks like zero trust and NIST standards. The conversation also explores the role of AI in both enhancing phishing attacks and defending against cyber threats, as well as the challenges and strategies in implementing AI security within organizations. Gain insights on vendor management complexities, platformization, quantum cryptography, and the future of cyber encryption. Listen to practical advice on navigating business risks, enhancing user experiences, and adopting zero trust models in today's digital landscape.  00:00 Introduction to Cybersecurity Today 00:26 Understanding CDW and Its Role 01:08 CDW's Approach to Cybersecurity 04:16 Research and Insights from CDW 05:40 The Growing Sophistication of Cyber Attacks 08:24 Adopting Cybersecurity Frameworks 12:12 The Importance of Tabletop Exercises 17:01 Human Vulnerabilities and AI in Cybersecurity 18:12 The Sophistication of Phishing Attacks 19:03 Emotional Manipulation in Cyber Attacks 21:09 AI in Cybersecurity: Opportunities and Risks 22:30 Implementing AI in Business Operations 25:08 Balancing AI and Privacy Concerns 34:09 The Future of Cybersecurity: Quantum Computing 36:53 Final Thoughts and Advice for Organizations

Mastering Cybersecurity: From AI Threats to Quantum Encryption - Insights with CDW Join host Jim Love in a riveting discussion with Ivo Wiens, Field CTO for CDW Canada, as they review CDW's cyber security research and discussions with CISO's about the state of cyber security in Canada.  Delve into the sophistication of cyber attacks driven by organized crime and nation-states, and learn about the importance of cyber security frameworks like zero trust and NIST standards. The conversation also explores the role of AI in both enhancing phishing attacks and defending against cyber threats, as well as the challenges and strategies in implementing AI security within organizations. Gain insights on vendor management complexities, platformization, quantum cryptography, and the future of cyber encryption. Listen to practical advice on navigating business risks, enhancing user experiences, and adopting zero trust models in today's digital landscape.  00:00 Introduction to Cybersecurity Today 00:26 Understanding CDW and Its Role 01:08 CDW's Approach to Cybersecurity 04:16 Research and Insights from CDW 05:40 The Growing Sophistication of Cyber Attacks 08:24 Adopting Cybersecurity Frameworks 12:12 The Importance of Tabletop Exercises 17:01 Human Vulnerabilities and AI in Cybersecurity 18:12 The Sophistication of Phishing Attacks 19:03 Emotional Manipulation in Cyber Attacks 21:09 AI in Cybersecurity: Opportunities and Risks 22:30 Implementing AI in Business Operations 25:08 Balancing AI and Privacy Concerns 34:09 The Future of Cybersecurity: Quantum Computing 36:53 Final Thoughts and Advice for Organizations

Host Dave Sobel discusses the current state of the U.S. economy, highlighting a 0.4% increase in retail sales for September, which counters fears of an economic slowdown. Notably, sectors such as clothing, restaurants, and pet stores saw significant spending increases, while furniture and electronics experienced declines. Sobel also references Kindrall's 2024 readiness report, revealing a disconnect between executives' confidence in their IT infrastructure and its actual preparedness for future challenges, with a significant portion nearing the end of its life cycle.The episode delves into the growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) among small businesses, with 40% utilizing AI tools in 2024, up from 23% in 2023. The primary applications include marketing and customer communication, reflecting a broader trend of businesses leveraging AI for data-driven strategies. Sobel notes that the AI market is valued at approximately $9 trillion, with predictions indicating a shift towards no-code applications and advancements in robotic process automation. The discussion emphasizes the importance of AI in enhancing operational efficiency and decision-making.Sobel highlights the evolving landscape for managed service providers (MSPs), particularly how mid-sized MSPs are leveraging generative AI tools to carve out niche markets. He points out that while larger MSPs focus on massive enterprise contracts, smaller players can thrive by specializing in specific verticals like healthcare and finance. The episode also touches on a CDW survey revealing that while organizations feel capable of managing their cloud environments, challenges such as a lack of governance and cloud skills persist, indicating a steady demand for cloud expertise.The episode concludes with a look at recent product launches and updates from major tech companies. Microsoft has introduced AI agents for its Dynamics 365 platform, aimed at automating tasks and improving efficiency, while OpenAI has launched a desktop application for ChatGPT, enhancing user accessibility. Additionally, PAX 8 has expanded its security program for MSPs, and Apple has introduced Business Connect to help organizations manage their identity across its platforms. Sobel emphasizes the need for expertise in AI deployment and the importance of specialization for service providers navigating these trends. Five things to know today 00:00 Amid Retail Strength and AI Growth, IT Leaders Face Infrastructure Gaps and Cloud Expertise Shortages06:51 Microsoft's Dynamics 365 AI Agents and OpenAI's ChatGPT Desktop App Launched08:49 Evo Security Launches Evo 2.0, Pax8 Expands Security Program and Marketplace 10:48 Apple Introduces Business Connect to Strengthen Brand Trust with Verified Business Caller ID in 202511:51 New $25M Founders Fund from Top Down Ventures Backs Promising SaaS Players in the MSP Sector   Supported by:  https://www.huntress.com/mspradio/https://mspradio.com/engage/   All our Sponsors: https://businessof.tech/sponsors/ Do you want the show on your podcast app or the written versions of the stories? Subscribe to the Business of Tech: https://www.businessof.tech/subscribe/Looking for a link from the stories? The entire script of the show, with links to articles, are posted in each story on https://www.businessof.tech/ Support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/mspradio/ Want to be a guest on Business of Tech: Daily 10-Minute IT Services Insights? Send Dave Sobel a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/businessoftech Want our stuff? Cool Merch? Wear “Why Do We Care?” - Visit https://mspradio.myspreadshop.com Follow us on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28908079/YouTube: https://youtube.com/mspradio/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mspradionews/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mspradio/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@businessoftechBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/businessoftech.bsky.social

Exploring the 2024 CDW Canadian Hybrid Cloud Report with KJ Burke In this episode of Hashtag Trending, the weekend edition, host Jim Love delves into the evolution and current state of cloud technology with guest KJ Burke, Field CTO for Hybrid Infrastructure at CDW Canada. They discuss the 2024 CDW Canadian hybrid cloud report, prepared with IDC, highlighting trends and challenges in cloud management, particularly in Canadian businesses. The dialogue touches on hybrid cloud definitions, financial management in cloud operations, data governance, AI, and IoT projects. Burke shares insights on the evolving needs for automation and skills in IT and highlights the importance of data security and compliance. The episode ends with a call to check out related resources and stay tuned for more updates. 00:00 Introduction and Evolution of Cloud Computing 01:14 Introducing the 2024 CDW Canadian Hybrid Cloud Report 01:48 Meet K.J. Burke: Field CTO for Hybrid Infrastructure at CDW 03:04 The Importance of Canadian-Specific Cloud Research 05:55 Key Findings from the 2024 Cloud Report 10:43 Challenges in Managing Hybrid Multi-Cloud Environments 21:39 The Role of AI and IOT in Cloud Computing 30:58 Data Management and Governance in the Cloud 37:31 Final Insights and Recommendations 41:13 Conclusion and Farewell

What does it take to become a bold leader? How do you build high-performing teams that are excuse-proof, and goal-crushing?  Our guest in this episode is Kimberly Svoboda, the CEO of Aspiration Catalyst®. Kim spent 25 years building businesses from zero dollars to millions at high-growth technology firms such as CDW, Adobe, US Cellular, and Insight…and has deep expertise in leadership, sales, operations, strategy, and what it takes to build powerful teams and sustain high performance. Her mission is to empower BOLD leaders worldwide.   Episode Highlights: 00:00 Introduction: A Surprising Start 01:34 Influences and Inspirations: The Journey to Leadership 03:32 The Mission: Making a Difference in Leadership 04:47 Recognizing the Need for Leadership Coaching 07:10 Tailored Solutions for High-Growth Companies 12:34 The Power of Strengths-Based Leadership 17:09 A Global Perspective: Personal Insights and Future Plans ​19:12 How to Connect with Kimberly Svodoba   Show Links: http://www.aspirationcatalyst.com/

This week we are continuing our PoweredUp Tech Fest Series! Today Steph & Ash talk with Ken Pomella (CEO of Revstar), Todd Ketterman (Healthcare Strategist for CDW), and Kim Anstett (CIO of Trellix) about practical AI and putting it into use. We dive into how companies can use AI for practical business uses and if […] The post PoweredUp Series! – Kim Anstett, Todd Ketterman, and Ken Pomella appeared first on Radio Influence.

This week we are continuing our PoweredUp Tech Fest Series! Today Steph & Ash talk with Ken Pomella (CEO of Revstar), Todd Ketterman (Healthcare Strategist for CDW), and Kim Anstett (CIO of Trellix) about practical AI and putting it into use. We dive into how companies can use AI for practical business uses and if […] The post PoweredUp Series! – Kim Anstett, Todd Ketterman, and Ken Pomella appeared first on Radio Influence.

Tech Toys and programs are her jam. She's developed numerous programs in esports, drones, robotics, and design. She routinely shares her knowledge at conferences and virtually in monthly meetings with Intel, our California state-wide esports group, and the Collaborative of Large Districts across the US. She has been featured at NAECAD, TCEA, FETC, and ISTE as an expert in esports program development and implementation. She's also been featured in articles and/or podcasts by NAECAD, CDW, ISTE, and Intel and have sat on several panels as an educational esports expert for these same entities. She is the former 2022 NAECAD HS Esports Director of the Year and a 2023 finalist for the FUSD Managerial Educator of the Year and the 2024 *thegameHERS Guardian of the Year. She is an expert in Minecraft Education, Minecraft Esports, a Minecraft Mentor & Ambassador, Minecraft Certified Educator, and Trainer, and the facilitator for the Minecraft Esports Teacher Academy cohorts. Implementing processes and systems for maximum program, project, and team efficiency is her specialty. She executes every detail of her project, exceeding expectations. Her passion is empowering teams and creating programs that thrive. Trained in interpersonal communication, conflict resolution, team & organizational development, and program management; She's a rare breed of an influencing manager, systems implementation expert, and skilled presenter. With 30 years of experience in training, facilitating, coaching, mentoring, and delivering presentations, She has the ability to visualize the project, create the essential material, and deliver interactive high-skilled presentations and workshops that fulfill the client's needs. Honesty, integrity & loyalty, are characteristics she values and inspires within the teams and organizations she influences. She is exceptionally detailed, organized, logical, and energetic. Those she works with call her Wonder Woman because of her truthful character and ability to execute what seems impossible! Connecting people with resources and opportunities to maximize their personal and professional growth is what drives her. She is a dedicated, passionate, and encouraging leader who enjoys empowering others to succeed.

In this episode, Scott Becker discusses Blackstone’s $2 billion acquisition plan, Starbucks’ revenue miss, CDW’s market struggles, and Dr. Mu Tomlinson’s achievements with the Vituity Foundation. He also celebrates the podcast’s milestones and the stock market’s positive reaction to potential interest rate cuts.

In this episode, Scott Becker discusses Blackstone’s $2 billion acquisition plan, Starbucks’ revenue miss, CDW’s market struggles, and Dr. Mu Tomlinson’s achievements with the Vituity Foundation. He also celebrates the podcast’s milestones and the stock market’s positive reaction to potential interest rate cuts.

July 24, 2024: Tom Stafford (Healthcare CTO at CDW), Chris Akeroyd (Executive VP and CIO of Children's Health), and Theresa Meadows (SVP and CIO of Cook Children's) join Bill for a Solution Showcase. They discuss how initial cloud enthusiasm meets real-world challenges, such as data retrieval issues and vendor lock-in, and how these experiences shaped their current strategies. What lessons can be drawn from early cloud adoption missteps, and how do healthcare organizations ensure security and flexibility in their cloud architecture today? As they navigate the shift from traditional data centers to cloud-based solutions, how do they balance innovation with the practical needs of healthcare delivery? Key Points:00:52 Early Cloud Adoption Challenges02:26 Strategic Cloud Migration04:47 Cloud Security and Governance16:25 Staff Transition and Training22:15 Future of Data Centers and CloudSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex's Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

In this podcast, Maxwell discusses the question: Is Generation Alpha's Attention spans getting worse? He explains the future possibilities of this growing problem, and points out the main causes. He also proposes various solutions for this ever-growing problem in this edition of CDW's podcast.

In this podcast, Lyla talks about the question: What do 8th Grade Girls Talk About During Lunch? Lyla talked about the three main things talked about during lunch, food, gossip, and school. She interviewed 8th grade girls from CDW to get answers on whether or not these things are actually talked about. Most of the girls interviewed agreed with the three main topics and gave an elaboration of what is talked about at lunch. If you want to know what these 8th grade girls talk about during lunch, listen to this podcast to find out. 

On this episode we chat with the President of Blacks In Technology Chicago, Vera Dureke. Vera chops it up with Greg to share her journey as a dynamic professional based in Chicago pursuing her Bachelor's degree in Data Science and Mathematics from Indiana University East. We discuss her role and experience as the BIT Chicago chapter lead, the initiatives she has planned for the chapter as well as diving into her hobbies of collecting vinyl records and crafting with 3D printers.About our guest:Vera Dureke is a professional based in Chicago, currently serving as the Chapter President for Blacks in Technology Chicago. She is pursuing her Bachelor's degree in Data Science and Mathematics from Indiana University East, showcasing her passion for data-driven insights and innovation. In addition to her academic pursuits, Vera takes on the role of Marketing Lead for Out in Tech Chicago.By day, Vera works as a Contract Analyst at CDW, where she excels in analyzing and managing contracts. Beyond her professional life, she is an avid collector with an extensive assortment of vinyl records, Funko Pops, and a flourishing collection of plants. Her creative side shines through as she enjoys crafting with 3D printers, bringing her imaginative ideas to life.View podcast video! 

Today's guest is Greg Wheeler, Public Sector Vertical Lead at CDW ServiceNow Solutions. As a ServiceNow Elite Partner, CDW helps you optimize the value of your ServiceNow investment and streamline IT operations across your organization. With customers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to some of the nation's leading healthcare organizations and higher education institutions, their team have the experience to help you succeed with your ServiceNow initiatives. Greg is responsible for defining a catalog of solutions based on industry best practice frameworks and optimizing the ServiceNow platform for government clients at CDW. Part of this role is identifying consistent, reliable, repeatable processes for marketing, scoping and delivering the identified services. Delivery includes both the technical delivery (e.g. configuration of the ServiceNow platform) as well as appropriate Organizational Change Management methods to ensure their clients' success. In this episode, Greg talks about: His career journey & overview of their work at CDW How the Public sector mirrors private sector but with distinct challenges, ServiceNow's possibilities beyond IT to enhance the citizen experience, Utilizing ServiceNow to aid school districts in asset management and interaction, Establishing a CoE to merge ServiceNow expertise with practitioner insight, How the Government blends strategic planning with agile implementation, How CDW blends large-scale capability with agile innovation

Aaron Welch, a service-disabled veteran of the US Marine Corps (1995-1999), traded his combat boots for marketing savvy, diving into the internet marketing scene in 2001 and social media marketing in 2006. Aaron's marketing journey began somewhat accidentally with a website reviewing Houston's nightlife and eateries in 2000. Although that first venture didn't take off, it sparked a relentless passion. After relocating to Austin, Aaron quickly turned his passion into profit, boosting his first client's business by an eye-popping 500% within two months. Since those early days, he's launched numerous businesses with some hits and some misses, collaborated with behemoths like Cisco Systems, Google (Alphabet), Oracle, and CDW, and helped to grow a lengthy roster of SaaS and local service providers' businesses through digital marketing advising and services. As an adult student, Aaron earned his BA from Texas State University and an MBA from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin courtesy of the GI Bill and Hazelwood Act while working full-time. Today, Aaron channels his formidable skills into championing Veteran-Owned Businesses and Veteran Service Organizations, enhancing their digital marketing, fundraising efforts, and adding automation and AI magic to streamline operations all while being a husband, father of two daughters who have inherited his sarcasm, being an avid traveler, sports fanatic, and terrible golfer. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vets2pm/support

In the garage today we talk about who gets to name groups what, Planet 9, Gamma ray Bursts, and CDW in Deer. Man we are just full of CHEER in this episode!

On this episode, Scott Schell sits down with Brian Dixon at CDW to discuss the moments that matter around Enterprise Agreements (EAs), software adoption, and the customer lifecycle across the two.

Send us a Text Message.This episode is sponsored by Patrick & Company, a wholesale sales agency proudly representing nationally and internationally branded companies. Located in the Dallas Market Center, for over 30 years they have been the go-to source for retailers helping to discover those unique, sought-after, and stylish brands.Alec Samman is the President and CEO of Peepers, a 4th generation family run eyewear company. Alec and his sister Lindsay joined the business as owners a little over ten years ago, and they have continued to uphold the high standards of design, innovation and customer connection that have become associated with the Peepers brand.Under Alec's leadership, Peepers has grown exponentially by over 2500% to become a multi-channel business, expanding its distribution into over 7,000 stores nationwide as well as having a large and growing presence online, direct to the consumer. Peepers has opened offices in California and Hong Kong and has substantially grown its headquarters in Indiana in terms of space and employees. In 2019, the Company debuted a large, state-of-the-art distribution facility as part of its headquarters footprint. During the time that Alec has been CEO, Peepers has been named one of "Inc. 5000 FastestGrowing Companies" 10 times, one of the "Best Places to Work in Indiana" 7 times, and has made the coveted "Oprah's Favorite Things" list 7 times. Alec has been proud to establish a well-received philanthropic program called "Peepers for Teachers," where the company donates money, school supplies, and eyewear and offers volunteers to support teachers throughout the US. Before joining Peepers, Alec held several roles within the sales organization at CDW, a Fortune 500 information technology provider. While at CDW, he was named a President's Club winner for being a top sales producer. Alec was inducted into the YPO (Young Presidents' Organization) in 2019. He has served on several local non-profit boards, including the Notre Dame School Foundation and is currently the Vice Chair of the Reader & Sunglass Division at the Vision Council.Alec holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Marketing from Indiana University.Here, Alec shares his insights into what it was like to build the Peepers brand and his experience transitioning from a corporate sales career into the family business. Michelle and Alec also discuss how Peepers has evolved over four generations, an inside look at the Peepers company culture, and what it was like to get recognized by Oprah.  What's Inside:Alec's experience transitioning from a sales career into the family businessHow Peepers evolved over four generationsAn inside look at the Peepers company cultureMentioned In This Episode:Peepers on InstagramPeepers on TikTokPeepers on FacebookPeepers Website

In this episode, we discuss technology innovations impacting the way patients are cared for, where they are cared for, and how effective that care ultimately is. The current state of healthcare. Where are we at and what is currently in flight as far as technology innovation that we are seeing?How is innovation in technology changing the way patients interact with their care providers?What is happening with technology from the provider side that patients may not be aware of that is changing the way they receive healthcare services?The idea of the “home hospital” where patients and especially the elderly can minimize the impact to their daily lives by bringing more services to the home. How are technology empowering healthcare providers to bring more services to the home and why is that so important?What types of technology will we see in the next few years that will really focus on improving the effectiveness of our healthcare providers?How will tools like natural language processing empower better communication?What are our expectations for innovations within AI and high-performance compute and how will that fundamentally change healthcare?What does the technology and care gap look like between highly innovative healthcare providers and providers that have struggled to keep pace with technology innovation?The innovation centres that CDW uses, and how we use those to help healthcare providers really see what technology innovation can mean to them and their patients?Future state of healthcare. What excites you about the future of healthcare? To learn more, visit cdw.ca

Communication Is Key To Success In Business, Relationships, and More: Gary Ross works with everyone from the C-Suite to the production line to be a better communicator. As a former FORTUNE 500 corporate communications executive, Emmy-nominated broadcast journalist and current stadium and arena public address announcer, Gary knows you don't always need a booming sound system to get your message across. He provides actionable tips and advice that people can use to enhance their careers and build credibility and influence.Prior to his training, coaching, and consulting work, Gary led communications departments at CDW, Hyatt Hotels, and Fortune Brands. Before joining the corporate communications profession, he worked as a reporter and anchor for WCBD-TV in Charleston, SC, where he was nominated for an Emmy Award in investigative journalism, traveled overseas with the U.S. military and reported from the eye of Category Four Hurricane Hugo.Quote "Everything Communicates."Gary has been interviewed for several communications publications and podcasts and has spoken on communications and change for leading organizations and universities.Gary is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, the International Association of Business Communicators, the Association of Change Management Professionals and the National Speakers Association (Illinois Chapter). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism degree from the Medill School at Northwestern University. Today's Top 3 Takeaways: Everything CommunicatesStorytelling For SuccessCommunicate For Growth Today's Guest & Resource Links: www.insidecomms.comhttps://plus.insidecomms.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/garymross/ Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FIYpTfRkZF8 Timestamped Show Notes: 08:50 – I have three number one rules of communication, and they're all tied for number one. That's why they're all number one. One of them is, Everything Communicates and that's one of the things that communicates. I'll tell you kind of the converse of the story...19:00 – Well, so we need to be strategic absolutely about communication, because, you know, how many times have you been there whether you're in communications or not. You're at work and somebody comes to you and says, oh, you know, we need to send out an email about XYZ. People's minds, especially when it goes to communication, a lot of times just go to the tactic, we need an email, we need a meeting, we need a town hall, we need a video. 23:25 - Tell them a story! That's my third number one rule of communication, is to tell them a story. Why is that? Go back to caveman drawings. That's just the natural way for humans to communicate and to relate to one another and to move one another, to action. Frankly, it's not that tough, because there's a very simple structure. 29:20 – Regarding the e-Learning we've got, it's all about the video success. So you got the visual and the audio, but then we also have little exercises that reinforce a lot of the points that we talked about in the videos. Then we also added in each of the courses, we have these downloadable tools and templates that you can take and keep. If you want you want to go old school, you print it out and you stick it up next to your desk and you can consult it regularly. One of the things I've got is on the corporate narrative course in there, but it is the storytelling template that I...

S&P Futures are higher this morning and the sentiment remains positive. Fed Bank Presidents Bostic and Goolsbee echoed Friday's comments from New York Fed Williams over the weekend that no rate cuts are on the near term horizon. UBER, JBIL & BLDR are being added to the S&P 500 today. CDW, CCEP, DASH, MDB ROP & SPLK are being added to the NASD 100 today. Bank of Japan likely to forecast the end of negative interest rates at the conclusion of its monetary policy meeting the evening. In Europe stocks are mixed and oil price just reversed course and are now higher on the day.

December 7: Today on the Conference channel, it's an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum with Frederick Holston, Healthcare Strategist at CDW. Fred dives into talking about AI, its different facets, and how realistically it may be used in the healthcare industry. The question is - As patients, nurses, and doctors navigate the day-to-day work within a healthcare setting, what role will AI play in practicality? How far removed are we from ensuring the use of advanced tech, such as AI, is still grounded in the underlying principle of care? The conversation shifts towards healthcare labs, their future, and what they're currently seeking. What focal point should these labs be working towards?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex's Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

This episode of the Get A CUE Podcast features Jen Dawson and Danielle Rourke from CDW's eSports division and we spent the time talking about the growth of eSports, eSports in the EDU space, how schools can get started with an eSports program, the most popular games offered, and CDW's offerings in the scholastic eSports field. Contact them at esports@cdw.com Focus on EDU Podcast Coaching Clinics through https://naecad.org/ TheGameHers https://thegamehers.com/ Leeroy Jenkins  Danielle Rourke on Twitter - @GamingCulturist Jen Dawson on Twitter - @Jenumi2 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/get-a-cue/message

In today's episode, Stephen Semmelroth, Sr. Director of Security at AVANT, is joined by Greg Vander Gaast, Chief Technologist of Security at CDW, to talk about security strategy. They explore some methods that some might consider blasphemous, while others think to be the real deal when it comes to building a security program. Plus, they guide listeners on how to prevent security problems before they even happen. Join them as they jump into the security strategy conversation!

Switching from selling tech to selling homes feels a lot like going from the minor to the major league of sport. The ticket price is larger, the stakes are higher, and the competition is steeper.   This is especially true in this down market, where more people are dropping out than ever before. It's easy for the market to carry you when the going's good, but when things shift, the market won't do you any favors. Real estate is harder right now, but that's something that gets good agents excited.   Why is a harder market better for a lot of agents? How did grinding it out at a cubicle in tech sales prepare our guest for real estate? In this episode, Chicagoland Realtor and leader, Leigh Marcus talks about his journey, the success of his team and how a down market can be a good thing for the industry.   Real estate is really the big leagues for sales. Higher ticket prices, higher commissions, higher everything. -Leigh Marcus   Three Things You'll Learn In This Episode    -Get comfortable with boredom  How did a career in tech sales prepare Leigh to do monster numbers in real estate?    -Pray for it get harder  While many agents fear change in the market, and even changes in legislation that might change our industry, why does Leigh welcome it?   -How to retain superstars  The most talented agents eventually want to become leaders in their own right. How do you keep them excited to remain on your team?    Guest Bio    Leigh Marcus is one of Chicago's top agents and team leaders. With over 2,200 sales closed since beginning his real estate career in Chicago over 15 years ago, Leigh Marcus is as enthusiastic about the city and its properties as he was on day one. “The vast amount of experience I have now has taught me everything,” says Marcus, a real estate Broker with @properties specializing in single-family homes and condos on Chicago's North Side. Working with everyone from first-time homebuyers and sellers to luxury clients, Marcus maintains honest and open communication, tailoring his services to suit their needs. Prior to joining the industry, Marcus worked in technology sales at IBM, CDW and EMC for 15 years. “My previous roles have helped me better understand people because I've worked with so many different personality types,” he explains, adding that he was inspired to make the transition by his wife's success as a real estate agent. “She taught me what it takes to build and keep those client relationships in real estate.” In 2019, Marcus represented the listing that garnered the highest transaction price in Roscoe Village in over a decade. He has been recognized as a top producer by the Chicago Association of Realtors for five years straight and has made the Inc. 5000 list for the past two years.   For more information, head to https://www.leighmarcus.com/.

Retailers are never going to stop being interested in improving the customer experience. We have more to discuss in upcoming episodes, but we thought we should revisit this episode with CDW's Andy Szanger.   * * *   (Originally released Aug. 3, 2023) Consumers are returning to brick-and-mortar stores, but after years of convenience and digital shopping, expectations for seamless, fast, and maybe even fun visits are higher than ever. This week, CDW's Andy Szanger joins the pod to discuss how retail tech can improve customer journeys and create an “experience” that keeps them coming back. How much do consumers value their time? Why is improving employee experience just as necessary as customers'? Are experiential solutions just for Tier 1 retailers?   #VARValue - What new retail tech, innovations, or trends should VARs be learning more about that are likely to become part of their tech stack in the future?   Referenced Articles: Forbes - "How Tech is Making the Retail Industry More Efficient and Improving the Customer Experience" Lightspeed - "What is Experiential Retail?" Lowe's "Project Unlock" - Video   TEConnecting with us: Andy - Web3 Dean - Netflix Adds New Subscribers John - Apple Fixes "Ducking" Problem   Talk to us! X/Twitter - @TEConnectPod Email - TEConnect@bluestarinc.com Submit your topic ideas - https://www.bluestarinc.com/us-en/lan... Follow BlueStar on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/blue... Subscribe to the BlueStar Nation Newsletter - https://nation.bluestarinc.com/#subsc...

John Wynkoop, Cloud Economist & Platypus Herder at The Duckbill Group, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss why he decided to make a career move and become an AWS billing consultant. Corey and John discuss how once you're deeply familiar with one cloud provider, those skills become transferable to other cloud providers as well. John also shares the trends he has seen post-pandemic in the world of cloud, including the increased adoption of a multi-cloud strategy and the need for costs control even for VC-funded start-ups. About JohnWith over 25 years in IT, John's done almost every job in the industry, from running cable and answering helpdesk calls to leading engineering teams and advising the C-suite. Before joining The Duckbill Group, he worked across multiple industries including private sector, higher education, and national defense. Most recently he helped IGNW, an industry leading systems integration partner, get acquired by industry powerhouse CDW. When he's not helping customers spend smarter on their cloud bill, you can find him enjoying time with his family in the beautiful Smoky Mountains near his home in Knoxville, TN.Links Referenced: The Duckbill Group: https://duckbillgroup.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlwynkoop/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. And the times, they are changing. My guest today is John Wynkoop. John, how are you?John: Hey, Corey, I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.Corey: So, big changes are afoot for you. You've taken a new job recently. What are you doing now?John: Well [laugh], so I'm happy to say I have joined The Duckbill Group as a cloud economist. So, came out of the big company world, and have dived back in—or dove back into the startup world.Corey: It's interesting because when we talk to those big companies, they always identify us as oh, you're a startup, which is hilarious on some level because our AWS account hangs out in AWS's startup group, but if you look at the spend being remarkably level from month to month to month to year to year to year, they almost certainly view us as they're a startup, but they suck at it. They completely failed. And so, many of the email stuff that you get from them presupposes that you're venture-backed, that you're trying to conquer the entire world. We don't do that here. We have this old-timey business model that our forebears would have understood of, we make more money than we spend every month and we continue that trend for a long time. So first, thanks for joining us, both on the show and at the company. We like having you around.John: Well, thanks. And yeah, I guess that's—maybe a startup isn't the right word to describe what we do here at The Duckbill Group, but as you said, it seems to fit into the industry classification. But that was one of the things I actually really liked about the—that was appealing about joining the team was, we do spend less than we make and we're not after hyper-growth and we're not trying to consume everything.Corey: So, it's interesting when you put a job description out into the world and you see who applies—and let's be clear, for those who are unaware, job descriptions are inherently aspirational shopping lists. If you look at a job description and you check every box on the thing and you've done all the things they want, the odds are terrific you're going to be bored out of your mind when you wind up showing up to do these… whatever that job is. You should be learning stuff and growing. At least that's always been my philosophy to it. One of the interesting things about you is that you checked an awful lot of boxes, but there is one that I think would cause people to raise an eyebrow, which is, you're relatively new to the fun world of AWS.John: Yeah. So, obviously I, you know, have been around the block a few times when it comes to cloud. I've used AWS, built some things in AWS, but I wouldn't have classified myself as an AWS guru by any stretch of the imagination. I spent the last probably three years working in Google Cloud, helping customers build and deploy solutions there, but I do at least understand the fundamentals of cloud, and more importantly—at least for our customers—cloud costs because at the end of the day, they're not all that different.Corey: I do want to call out that you have a certain humility to you which I find endearing. But you're not allowed to do that here; I will sing your praises for you. Before they deprecated it like they do almost everything else, you were one of the relatively few Google Cloud Certified Fellows, which was sort of like their Heroes program only, you know, they killed it in favor of something else like there's a Champion program or whatnot. You are very deep in the world of both Kubernetes and Google Cloud.John: Yeah. So, there was a few of us that were invited to come out and help Google pilot that program in, I believe it was 2019, and give feedback to help them build the Cloud Fellows Program. And thankfully, I was selected based on some of our early experience with Anthos, and specifically, it was around Certified Fellow in what they call hybrid multi-cloud, so it was experience around Anthos. Or at the time, they hadn't called it Anthos; they were calling it CSP or Cloud Services Platform because that's not an overloaded acronym. So yeah, definitely, was very humbled to be part of that early on.I think the program, as you said, grew to about 70 or so maybe 100 certified individuals before they transitioned—not killed—transitioned to that program into the Cloud Champions program. So, those folks are all still around, myself included. They've just now changed the moniker. But we all get to use the old title still as well, so that's kind of cool.Corey: I have to ask, what would possess you to go from being one of the best in the world at using Google Cloud over here to our corner of the AWS universe? Because the inverse, if I were to somehow get ejected from here—which would be a neat trick, but I'm sure it's theoretically possible—like, “What am I going to do now?” I would almost certainly wind up doing something in the AWS ecosystem, just due to inertia, if nothing else. You clearly didn't see things quite that way. Why make the switch?John: Well, a couple of different reasons. So, being at a Google partner presents a lot of challenges and one of the things that was supremely interesting about coming to Duckbill is that we're independent. So, we're not an AWS partner. We are an independent company that is beholden only to our customers. And there isn't anything like that in the Google ecosystem today.There's, you know, there's Google partners and then there's Google customers and then there's Google. So, that was part of the appeal. And the other thing was, I enjoy learning new things, and honestly, learning, you know, into the depths of AWS cost hell is interesting. There's a lot to learn there and there's a lot of things that we can extract and use to help customers spend less. So, that to me was super interesting.And then also, I want to help build an organization. So, you know, I think what we're doing here at The Duckbill Group is cool and I think that there's an opportunity to grow our services portfolio, and so I'm excited to work with the leadership team to see what else we can bring to market that's going to help our customers, you know, not just with cost optimization, not just with contract negotiation, but you know, through the lifecycle of their AWS… journey, I guess we'll call it.Corey: It's one of those things where I always have believed, on some level, that once you're deep in a particular cloud provider, if there's reason for it, you can rescale relatively quickly to a different provider. There are nuances—deep nuances—that differ from provider to provider, but the underlying concepts generally all work the same way. There's only so many ways you can have data go from point A to point B. There's only so many ways to spin up a bunch of VMs and whatnot. And you're proof-positive that theory was correct.You'd been here less than a week before I started learning nuances about AWS billing from you. I think it was something to do with the way that late fees are assessed when companies don't pay Amazon as quickly as Amazon desires. So, we're all learning new things constantly and no one stuffs this stuff all into their head. But that, if nothing else, definitely cemented that yeah, we've got the right person in the seat.John: Yeah, well, thanks. And certainly, the deeper you go on a specific cloud provider, things become fresh in your memory, you know, other cached so to speak. So, coming up to speed on AWS has been a little bit more documentation reading than it would have been, if I were, say, jumping right into a GCP engagement. But as he said, at the end of the day, there's a lot of similarities. Obviously understanding the nuances of, for example, account organization versus, you know, GCP's Project and Folders. Well, that's a substantial difference and so there's a lot of learning that has to happen.Thankfully, you know, all these companies, maybe with the exception of Oracle, have done a really good job of documenting all of the concepts in their publicly available documentation. And then obviously, having a team of experts here at The Duckbill Group to ask stupid questions of doesn't hurt. But definitely, it's not as hard to come up to speed as one may think, once you've got it understood in one provider.Corey: I took a look recently and was kind of surprised to discover that I've been doing this—as an independent consultant prior to the formation of The Duckbill Group—for seven years now. And it's weird, but I've gone through multiple industry cycles and changes as a part of this. And it feels like I haven't been doing it all that long, but I guess I have. One thing that's definitely changed is that it used to be that companies would basically pick one provider and almost everything would live there. At any reasonable point of scale, everyone is using multiple things.I see Google in effectively every client that we have. It used to be that going to Google Cloud Next was a great place to hang out with AWS customers. But these days, it's just as true to say that a great reason to go to re:Invent is to hang out with Google Cloud customers. Everyone uses everything, and that has become much more clear over the last few years. What have you seen change over the… I guess, since the start of the pandemic, just in terms of broad cycles?John: Yeah. So, I think there's a couple of different trends that we're seeing. Obviously, one is that as you said, especially as large enterprises make moves to the cloud, you see independent teams or divisions within a given organization leveraging… maybe not the right tool for the job because I think that there's a case to be made for swapping out a specific set of tools and having your team learn it, but we do see what I like to refer to as tool fetishism where you get a team that's super, super deep into BigQuery and they're not interested in moving to Redshift, or Snowflake, or a competitor. So, you see, those start to crop up within large organizations where the distributed—the purchasing power, rather—is distributed. So, that's one of the trends is the multi-cloud adoption.And I think the big trend that I like to emphasize around multi-cloud is, just because you can run it anywhere doesn't mean you should run it everywhere. So Kubernetes, as you know, right, as it took off 2019 timeframe, 2020, we started to see a lot of people using that as an excuse to try to run their production application in two, three public cloud providers and on-prem. And unless you're a SaaS customer—or SaaS company with customers in every cloud, there's very little reason to do that. But having that flexibility—that's the other one, is we've seen that AWS has gotten a little difficult to negotiate with, or maybe Google and Microsoft have gotten a little bit more aggressive. So obviously, having that flexibility and being able to move your workloads, that was another big trend.Corey: I'm seeing a change in things that I had taken as givens, back when I started. And that's part of the reason, incidentally, I write the Last Week in AWS newsletter because once you learn a thing, it is very easy not to keep current with that thing, and things that are not possible today will be possible tomorrow. How do you keep abreast of all of those changes? And the answer is to write a deeply sarcastic newsletter that gathers in everything from the world of AWS. But I don't recommend that for most people. One thing that I've seen in more prosaic terms that you have a bit of background in is that HPC on cloud was, five, six years ago, met with, “Oh, that's a good one; now pull the other one, it has bells on it,” into something that, these days, is extremely viable. How'd that happen?John: So, [sigh] I think that's just a—again, back to trends—I think that's just a trend that we're seeing from cloud providers and listening to their customers and continuing to improve the service. So, one of the reasons that HPC was—especially we'll call it capacity-level HPC or large HPC, right—you've always been able to run high throughput; the cloud is a high throughput machine, right? You can run a thousand disconnected VMs no problem, auto-scaling, anybody who runs a massive web front-end can attest to that. But what we saw with HPC—and we used to call those [grid 00:12:45] jobs, right, the small, decoupled computing jobs—but what we've seen is a huge increase in the quality of the underlying fabric—things like RDMA being made available, things like improved network locality, where you now have predictive latency between your nodes or between your VMs—and I think those, combined with the huge investment that companies like AWS have made in their file systems, the huge investment companies like Google have made in their data storage systems have made HPC viable, especially at a small-scale—for cloud-based HPC specifically—viable for organizations.And for a small engineering team, who's looking to run say, computer-aided engineering simulation or who's looking to prototype some new way of testing or doing some kind of simulation, it's a huge, huge improvement in speed because now they don't have to order a dozen or two dozen or five dozen nodes, have them shipped, rack them, stack them, cool them, power them, right? They can just spin up the resource in the cloud, test it out, try their simulation, try out the new—the software that they want, and then spin it all down if it doesn't work. So, that elasticity has also been huge. And again, I think the big—to kind of summarize, I think the big driver there is the improvement in this the service itself, right? We're seeing cloud providers taking that discipline a little bit more seriously.Corey: I still see that there are cases where the raw math doesn't necessarily add up for sustained, long-term use cases. But I also see increasingly that with HPC, that's usually not what the workload looks like. With, you know, the exception of we're going to spend the next 18 months training some new LLM thing, but even then the pricing is ridiculous. What is it their new P6 or whatever it is—P5—the instances that have those giant half-rack Nvidia cards that are $800,000 and so a year each if you were to just rent them straight out, and then people running fleets of these things, it's… wow that's more commas in that training job than I would have expected. But I can see just now the availability for driving some of that, but the economics of that once you can get them in your data center doesn't strike me as being particularly favoring the cloud.John: Yeah, there's a couple of different reasons. So, it's almost like an inverse curve, right? There's a crossover point or a breakeven point at which—you know, and you can make this argument with almost any level of infrastructure—if you can keep it sufficiently full, whether it's AI training, AI inference, or even traditional HPC if you can keep the machine or the group of machines sufficiently full, it's probably cheaper to buy it and put it in your facility. But if you don't have a facility or if you don't need to use it a hundred percent of the time, the dividends aren't always there, right? It's not always worth, you know, buying a $250,000 compute system, you know, like say, an Nvidia, as you—you know, like, a DGX, right, is a good example.The DGX H100, I think those are a couple $100,000. If you can't keep that thing full and you just need it for training jobs or for development and you have a small team of developers that are only going to use it six hours a day, it may make sense to spin that up in the cloud and pay for a fractional use, right? It's no different than what HPC has been doing for probably the past 50 years with national supercomputing centers, which is where my background came from before cloud, right? It's just a different model, right? One is public economies of, you know, insert your credit card and spend as much as you want and the other is grant-funded and supporting academic research, but the economy of scales is kind of the same on both fronts.Corey: I'm also seeing a trend that this is something that is sort of disturbing when you realize what I've been doing and how I've been going about things, that for the last couple of years, people actually started to care about the AWS bill. And I have to say, I felt like I was severely out of sync with a lot of the world the first few years because there's giant savings lurking in your AWS bill, and the company answer in many cases was, “We don't care. We'd rather focus our energies on shipping faster, building something new, expanding, capturing market.” And that is logical. But suddenly those chickens are coming home to roost in a big way. Our phone is ringing off the hook, as I'm sure you've noticed and your time here, and suddenly money means something again. What do you think drove it?John: So, I think there's a couple of driving factors. The first is obviously the broader economic conditions, you know, with the economic growth in the US, especially slowing down post-pandemic, we're seeing organizations looking for opportunities to spend less to be able to deliver—you know, recoup that money and deliver additional value. But beyond that, right—because, okay, but startups are probably still lighting giant piles of VC money on fire, and that's okay, but what's happening, I think, is that the first wave of CIOs that said cloud-first, cloud-only basically got their comeuppance. And, you know, these enterprises saw their explosive cloud bills and they saw that, oh, you know, we moved 5000 servers to AWS or GCP or Azure and we got the bill, and that's not sustainable. And so, we see a lot of cloud repatriation, cloud optimization, right, a lot of second-gen… cloud, I'll call them second-gen cloud-native CIOs coming into these large organizations where their predecessor made some bad financial decisions and either left or got asked to leave, and now they're trying to stop from lighting their giant piles of cash on fire, they're trying to stop spending 3X what they were spending on-prem.Corey: I think an easy mistake for folks to make is to get lost in the raw infrastructure cost. I'm not saying it's not important. Obviously not, but you could save a giant pile of money on your RDS instances by running your own database software on top of EC2, but I don't generally recommend folks do it because you also need engineering time to be focusing on getting those things up, care and feeding, et cetera. And what people lose sight of is the fact that the payroll expense is almost universally more than the cloud bill at every company I've ever talked to.So, there's a consistent series of, “Well, we're just trying to get to be the absolute lowest dollar figure total.” It's the wrong thing to emphasize on, otherwise, “Cool, turn everything off and your bill drops to zero.” Or, “Migrate to another cloud provider. AWS bill becomes zero. Our job is done.” It doesn't actually solve the problem at all. It's about what's right for the business, not about getting the absolute lowest possible score like it's some kind of code golf tournament.John: Right. So, I think that there's a couple of different ways to look at that. One is obviously looking at making your workloads more cloud-native. I know that's a stupid buzzword to some people, but—Corey: The problem I have with the term is that it means so many different things to different people.John: Right. But I think the gist of that is taking advantage of what the cloud is good at. And so, what we saw was that excess capacity on-prem was effectively free once you bought it, right? There were there was no accountability for burning through extra V CPUs or extra RAM. And then you had—Corey: Right. You spin something up in your data center and the question is, “Is the physical capacity there?” And very few companies had a reaping process until they were suddenly seeing capacity issues and suddenly everyone starts asking you a whole bunch of questions about it. But that was a natural forcing function that existed. Now, S3 has infinite storage, or it might as well. They can add capacity faster than you can fill it—I know this; I've tried—and the problem that you have then is that it's always just a couple more cents per gigabyte and it keeps on going forever. There's no, we need to make an investment decision because the SAN is at 80% capacity. Do you need all those 16 copies of the production data that you haven't touched since 2012? No, I probably don't.John: Yeah, there's definitely a forcing function when you're doing your own capacity planning. And the cloud, for the most part, as you've alluded to, for most organizations is infinite capacity. So, when they're looking at AWS or they're looking at any of the public cloud providers, it's a potentially infinite bill. Now, that scares a lot of organizations, and so because they didn't have the forcing function of, hey, we're out of CPUs, or we're out of hard disk space, or we're out of network ports, I think that because the cloud was a buzzword that a lot of shareholders and boards wanted to see in IT status reports and IT strategic plans, I think we grew a little bit further than we should have, from an enterprise perspective. And I think a lot of that's now being clawed back as organizations are maturing and looking to manage cost. Obviously, the huge growth of just the term FinOps from a search perspective over the last three years has cemented that, right? We're seeing a much more cost-conscious consumer—cloud consumer—than we saw three years ago.Corey: I think that the baseline level of understanding has also risen. It used to be that I would go into a client environment, prepared to deploy all kinds of radical stuff that these days look like context-aware architecture and things that would automatically turn down developer environments when developers were done for the day or whatnot. And I would discover that, oh, you haven't bought Reserved Instances in three years. Maybe start there with the easy thing. And now you don't see those, the big misconfigurations or the big oversights the way that you once did.People are getting better at this, which is a good thing. I'm certainly not having a problem with this. It means that we get to focus on things that are more architecturally nuanced, which I love. And I think that it forces us to continue innovating rather than just doing something that basically any random software stack could provide.John: Yeah, I think to your point, the easy wins are being exhausted or have been exhausted already, right? Very rarely do we walk into a customer and see that they haven't bought a, you know, Reserved Instance, or a Savings Plan. That's just not a thing. And the proliferation of software tools to help with those things, of course, in some cases, dubious proposition of, “We'll fix your cloud bill automatically for a small percentage of the savings,” that some of those software tools have, I think those have kind of run their course. And now you've got a smarter populace or smarter consumer and it does come into the more nuanced stuff, right.All right, do you really need to replicate data across AZs? Well, not if your workloads aren't stateful. Well, so some of the old things—and Kubernetes is a great example of this, right—the age old adage of, if I'm going to spin up an EKS cluster, I need to put it in three AZs, okay, why? That's going to cost you money [laugh], the cross-AZ traffic. And I know cross-AZ traffic is a simple one, but we still see that. We still see, “Well, I don't know why I put it across all three AZs.”And so, the service-to-service communication inside that cluster, the control plane traffic inside that cluster, is costing you money. Now, it might be minimal, but as you grow and as you scale your product or the services that you're providing internally, that may grow to a non-trivial sum of money.Corey: I think that there's a tipping point where an unbounded growth problem is always going to emerge as something that needs attention and needs to be focused on. But I should ask you this because you have a skill set that is, as you know, extremely in demand. You also have that rare gift that I wish wasn't as rare as it is where you can be thrown into the deep end knowing next to nothing about a particular technology stack, and in a remarkably short period of time, develop what can only be called subject matter expertise around it. I've seen you do this years past with Kubernetes, which is something I'm still trying to wrap my head around. You have a natural gift for it which meant that, from many respects, the world was your oyster. Why this? Why now?John: So, I think there's a couple of things that are unique at this thing, at this time point, right? So obviously, helping customers has always been something that's fun and exciting for me, right? Going to an organization and solving the same problem I've solved 20 different times, for example, spinning up a Kubernetes cluster, I guess I have a little bit of a little bit of squirrel syndrome, so to speak, and that gets—it gets boring. I'd rather just automate that or build some tooling and disseminate that to the customers and let them do that. So, the thing with cost management is, it's always a different problem.Yeah, we're solving fundamentally the same problem, which is, I'm spending too much, but it's always a different root cause, you know? In one customer, it could be data transfer fees. In another customer, it could be errant development growth where they're not controlling the spend on their development environments. In yet another customer, it could be excessive object storage growth. So, being able to hunt and look for those and play detective is really fun, and I think that's one of the things that drew me to this particular area.The other is just from a timing perspective, this is a problem a lot of organizations have, and I think it's underserved. I think that there are not enough companies—service providers, whatever—focusing on the hard problem of cost optimization. There's too many people who think it's a finance problem and not enough people who think it's an engineering problem. And so, I wanted to do work on a place where we think it's an engineering problem.Corey: It's been a very… long road. And I think that engineering problems and people problems are both fascinating to me, and the AWS bill is both. It's often misunderstood as a finance problem, and finance needs to be consulted absolutely, but they can't drive an optimization project, and they don't know what the context is behind an awful lot of decisions that get made. It really is breaking down bridges. But also, there's a lot of engineering in here, too. It scratches my itch in that direction, anyway.John: Yeah, it's one of the few business problems that I think touches multiple areas. As you said, it's obviously a people problem because we want to make sure that we are supporting and educating our staff. It's a process problem. Are we making costs visible to the organization? Are we making sure that there's proper chargeback and showback methodologies, et cetera? But it's also a technology problem. Did we build this thing to take advantage of the architecture or did we shoehorn it in a way that's going to cost us a small fortune? And I think it touches all three, which I think is unique.Corey: John, I really want to thank you for taking the time to speak with me. If people want to learn more about what you're up to in a given day, where's the best place for them to find you?John: Well, thanks, Corey, and thanks for having me. And, of course obviously, our website duckbillgroup.com is a great place to find out what we're working on, what we have coming. I also, I'm pretty active on LinkedIn. I know that's [laugh]—I'm not a huge Twitter guy, but I am pretty active on LinkedIn, so you can always drop me a follow on LinkedIn. And I'll try to post interesting and useful content there for our listeners.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to that in the [show notes 00:28:37], which in my case, is of course extremely self-aggrandizing. But that's all right. We're here to do self-promotion. Thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me, John. I appreciate it. Now, get back to work.John: [laugh]. All right, thanks, Corey. Have a good one.Corey: John Wynkoop, cloud economist at The Duckbill Group. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice while also taking pains to note how you're using multiple podcast platforms these days because that just seems to be the way the world went.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.

Hacktivism and disinformation in the war between Hamas and Israel. LockBit claims an attack on CDW. Shadow PC's breach. Void Rabisu deploys a lightweight RomCom backdoor against the Brussels conference. Rick Howard describes Radical Asymmetric Distribution. Our guest is Jason Birmingham from Broadridge Financial Solutions with a look at asset management. And coin mining as a potential front for espionage or a staging area for sabotage. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/12/197 Selected reading. How hackers piled onto the Israeli-Hamas conflict (POLITICO)  Israel-Gaza War Now Includes Accompanying Cyber Warfare (Channel Futures)  How Cyberattacks Could Affect the Israel-Hamas War (Bank Info Security)  Medical aid for Palestinians website under cyber attack affecting relief efforts (mint)  Rumors of a ‘Global Day of Jihad' Have Unleashed a Dangerous Wave of Disinformation (WIRED)  Hamas in rare English ‘press conference' as it tries to counter global condemnation (The Telegraph)  In Israel-Hamas conflict, social media become tools of propaganda and disinformation (DFRLab)   A flood of misinformation is shaping how panicked citizens, global public view the war (Washington Post)  How Israel-Hamas War Misinformation Is Spreading Online (TIME) Misinformation Is Warfare (TIME)  Meta responds to EU misinformation concerns regarding Israel-Hamas conflict (Engadget)  Briefing: Meta Details Efforts to Remove War-Related Disinformation (The Information) Cloud gaming firm Shadow says hackers stole customers' personal data (TechCrunch)  PC streaming service Shadow discloses security breach (The Verge)  Shadow silent on data breach as hacked data appears genuine (TechCrunch)  530K people's info stolen from cloud PC gaming's Shadow (Register)  CDW investigating ransomware gang claims of data theft (Record)  Lockbit ransomware gang demanded an 80 million ransom to CDW (Security Affairs)  Void Rabisu Targets Female Political Leaders with New Slimmed-Down ROMCOM Variant (Trend Micro) Women Political Leaders Summit targeted in RomCom malware phishing (BleepingComputer)  Across U.S., Chinese Bitcoin Mines Draw National Security Scrutiny (New York Times) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With today's digital landscape, safeguarding your online privacy is a non-negotiable priority, regardless of whether you're a tech-savvy business magnate or an everyday Joe. To ensure your digital life remains your own, let's delve into the intriguing world of hidden Windows switches that can revolutionize your online security. Are you ready to master your cyber cloak-and-dagger game? Keep reading as we take a closer look at the hidden features that Windows has to offer. Is Self-Driving Faster: The race for autonomous vehicles has captured our imagination, promising faster commutes and increased efficiency. But speed isn't the only factor at play in this high-stakes game. Self-Driving is Not Safer: Contrary to popular belief, the road to self-driving cars may not be paved with safety. We'll uncover the surprising truth about the risks involved. No Longer About Learn to Code: In this era of rapid technological advancement, learning to code isn't the only path to success. Discover how hidden Windows switches can offer an alternative advantage. Cyber Sloppiness MGM Ransom CDW Ransom: The threat of cyberattacks is more real than ever, with major players falling victim to ransomware. Learn how these hidden switches can fortify your defenses against attacks like the MGM and CDW incidents. Tactical Octopus Gang: Explore the tactics employed by cybercriminals like the Tactical Octopus Gang and how hidden Windows switches can foil their schemes. Global Warming Hoax Princeton and MIT: Moving beyond the digital realm, the debate about global warming continues. Learn how these hidden Windows switches can help you separate fact from fiction, even in the realms of academia with Princeton and MIT's research. Direct Air Capture Systems: Environmental concerns are paramount, and hidden Windows switches can empower you to take action, such as exploring Direct Air Capture Systems. In-Person vs Zoom Meetings: As the world adjusts to remote work and virtual meetings, hidden Windows switches can be your ace in the hole for securing your virtual conversations. Join the online safety-first-squad and embark on a journey to bolster your online privacy with these covert Windows features. Say YES to the concealed, the hidden, and the under-the-radar, and make your online experiences worry-free. Your digital life will thank you for the empowerment and security you'll gain. Ready to unleash the potential of hidden Windows switches? Explore the secrets of cyber cloak-and-dagger with us, and elevate your online security to new heights. Your digital future begins here!  Click the link below to read the full article: Maximize Your Cyber Cloak-and-Dagger Game with Hidden Windows Switches! You can also catch Craig at the following stations and channels: With Jim Polito at 0836 on Tuesdays WTAG AM 580 - FM 94.9  Talk 1200 News Radio 920 & 104.7 FM WHJJ NewsRadio 560 WHYN WXTK Craigs Show Airs 0600 Saturday and Sunday With  Jeff Katz 1630 - Tuesdays WRVA 96.1 FM, 1140 AM   WGAN  Matt Gagnon 0730 Wednesdays Craigs Show Airs 1700 Saturday  WGIR 610 & News Radio 96.7 Chris Ryan 0730 Mondays  Craigs Show Airs 1130 Saturday  On the Internet: Tune-In (WGAN) Radio.com (WRVA) iHeartRadio (WGIR, WTAG, and other stations)

Welcome back to another episode of Wine After Work. Today, we have a very special guest with us, someone who has a wealth of experience in the world of communication, from corporate boardrooms to the bright lights of broadcast journalism. Join us in welcoming Gary Ross. Gary is a communication expert who works with individuals at every level of organizations to help them become better communicators. With a background that spans the corporate world, journalism, and even the role of a stadium and arena public address announcer, Gary understands that effective communication is a key driver of success. Key Discussion Points: From Newsroom to Boardroom: Gary shares his journey from being an Emmy-nominated broadcast journalist to a corporate communications executive. How did his journalism background influence his approach to corporate communication? The Power of Effective Communication: We dive deep into the importance of communication in today's fast-paced, interconnected world. Gary provides insights into how improving communication can enhance careers, build credibility, and increase influence. Actionable Communication Tips: Gary offers practical advice and actionable tips for our listeners to become better communicators. Whether you're in the C-suite or on the production line, these insights can benefit everyone. Lessons from the Corporate World: What were Gary's experiences like leading communications departments at companies like CDW, Hyatt Hotels, and Fortune Brands? How did these roles shape his perspective on communication? Journalism Adventures: We hear some fascinating stories from Gary's time as a reporter and anchor, including traveling with the U.S. military and reporting from the eye of Category Four Hurricane Hugo. Navigating Change: Gary discusses the role of communication in managing change within organizations. How can effective communication ease transitions and drive positive outcomes? Professional Organizations: Gary is an active member of the Public Relations Society of America and the National Speakers Association (Illinois Chapter). He shares the value of these organizations in his career. Advice for Aspiring Communicators: For those looking to excel in the field of communication, Gary provides valuable advice and recommends strategies to continuously improve your communication skills. Join us for an enlightening and informative conversation with Gary Ross, a true expert in the field of communication. Whether you're seeking to enhance your career, build credibility, or simply become a better communicator in your daily life, Gary's insights are sure to leave a lasting impact. Connect with Gary Ross: Gary's Website: https://www.insidecomms.com/ Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garymross/ Don't forget to subscribe to [Your Podcast Name] and share this episode with your friends and colleagues. We'll be back with more inspiring conversations in the future. Thanks for tuning in!

Balance. You know you need it. Jake Kurtz has gained recognition as a leader and champion for the 4-day workweek movement. He joins us to dive into why it's crucial to understand your values, strengths, and weaknesses to lead effectively.   Jake reminds us that self-awareness is the secret sauce for effective leadership. He's a big believer that knowing oneself and embracing honesty about it is key to making a difference. Jake is no stranger to the art of taking calculated risks – he's experienced firsthand how these bold moves can yield substantial rewards. Brace yourself for a candid conversation where he lays bare both the exhilarating highs and the challenging lows of his entrepreneurial journey.  But what really makes Jake stand out is his vision of business as a way to make a positive impact on people's lives. It's not just about the bottom line for him; it's about leaving a mark and making the world a better place.    And let's not forget that he's a leading voice in the 4-day workweek movement. He talks about how this innovative approach to work can benefit both employees and businesses, fostering productivity, well-being, and work-life balance.   So, if you're looking for a quick dose of inspiration and wisdom on leadership, risk-taking, and finding balance, this podcast with Jake Kurtz is a must-listen. It's packed with valuable takeaways that might just reshape your perspective on success and life.    About Jake Kurtz: I am the Founder and CEO of Brick Media, a Tampa-based social media agency. We specialize in social media management and paid advertising services. We work with a variety of industries such as professional services, retail, legal, tech, B2B, restaurants, sports, and more. Before running Brick Media and owning a business full-time, I've always worked in marketing — both on the in-house and agency side. In the past decade, I've worked on campaigns for Walmart, Johnson & Johnson, Clorox, Ideal Image, Visit Florida, Dali Museum, BayCare, CDW, Hoover, Dyson, Marriott, Experience Kissimmee, Daily Burn, American Greetings, and Hallmark.

Courtney Wright has made bold business moves throughout her career. In this episode, we discuss how she does it. How does she courageously and continuously take action that leads to impressive business results? You'll learn that her secret to success is much more about what she believes and thinks, than what she does. About the Guest:Courtney Wright values helping people and believes in "the grind." An entrepreneur, podcast host, innovator, problem solver, wife, and mother, Wright wears many hats - the first of which goes on in the wee hours of the morning.Wright founded CDW Merchants, the leading 3D visual retail displays and E-commerce gift packaging provider for the nation's top retailers including Kate Spade, Victoria's Secret, and Club Monaco. In 2016, Courtney packaged CDW for the last time and sold it to Bunzl PLC (traded on the FTSE 100). That same year, Wright bought Gemini Builds It! and Showcase Acrylics, a leader in the framing, moulding, and custom display industry. As CEO, Wright quickly expanded their offerings to become a well-known name in E-commerce, Design, Corporations, Museums and Institutions, PPE and Healthcare, as well as the Hospitality and Events industries. She continues to look for organic growth opportunities through additional acquisitions. With her solid mix of entrepreneurial foresight, creativity, and hustle mentality, it was only natural that Wright would develop a platform to share her highly sought-after business advice.The Ladyboss Podcast by Courtney Wright is a modern-day guide to business, offering listeners real conversations with other successful leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss failures, successes, and strategies.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpfF7CdCQ7qoxIElkWSpiRQYou can contact her at Courtney@geminibuildsit.com or 847-417-5980. About the Host:Amy L. Riley is an internationally renowned speaker, author and consultant. She has over 2 decades of experience developing leaders at all levels. Her clients include Cisco Systems, Deloitte and Barclays.As a trusted leadership coach and consultant, Amy has worked with hundreds of leaders one-on-one, and thousands more as part of a group, to fully step into their leadership, create amazing teams and achieve extraordinary results. Amy's most popular keynote speeches are:The Courage of a Leader: The Power of a Leadership LegacyThe Courage of a Leader: Create a Competitive Advantage with Sustainable, Results-Producing Cross-System CollaborationThe Courage of a Leader: Accelerate Trust with Your Team, Customers and CommunityThe Courage of a Leader: How to Build a Happy and Successful Hybrid Team Her new book is a #1 international best-seller and is entitled, The Courage of a Leader: How to Inspire, Engage and Get Extraordinary Results. www.courageofaleader.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/amyshoopriley/ Link mentioned in the podcastThe Inspire Your Team assessment (the courage assessment): https://courageofaleader.com/inspireyourteam/ Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to The Courage of a Leader podcast! If you got inspired and/or got valuable leadership techniques you can use from this episode and think that...

August 11, 2023: Fred Holston (Healthcare Strategist for CDW) and Todd Larson (Consultant for HonorHealth) join Bill in talking about the Future of Care Spaces. How can clinical command centers leverage technology and remote nursing to streamline patient transport, reduce wait times, and improve overall operational efficiency? What role does governance play in driving healthcare innovation, and how can diverse perspectives from clinicians, support staff, and operational leaders contribute to successful project selection and implementation? What are the key considerations for healthcare organizations when adopting real-time location services and GPS-based technologies to improve patient transport and resource management? What role does data analytics play in a clinical command center, and how can it be leveraged to drive proactive and efficient patient care decisions? How can standardized platforms in healthcare help break down data silos, optimize processes, and enhance patient care across various care spaces and scenarios?Key Points:Caregiver EfficiencyClinical Command CenterReal-Time Location ServicesData AnalyticsNetwork Infrastructure for Future HealthcareCost Savings with Advanced TechnologiesStandardized PlatformsStreamlining Supply ChainSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex's Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

In this episode of Business Brain, we delve into various topics related to technology, marketing, and personal development. We start by discussing the availability of Apple Business Essentials through CDW, a tech company specializing in smart home setups. We also explore the use of URL shorteners and tracking URLs for […] The post The Avoid at All Costs List – Business Brain 473 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.

Hey Dancers, in today's episode we chat all about Stage Makeup! Listen to hear our makeup hacks, what we use to do when we were dancing & the products we used.To win our CDW ‘5,6,7,8' phone charm: listen to this podcast, take a selfie & tag us on @stagechats on InstagramCREDITS:This podcast is brought to you by: Claudia Dean WorldHosted by: Claudia Dean & Ailysh HealyExecutive Producers: Claudia Dean WorldShop our Collections: claudiadeanworld.comImprove your technique via our app: ‎Claudia Dean World

Stephen Drum is a retired combat-tested Navy SEAL Master Chief who has 27 years of experience leading and developing high-performance teams.  As a speaker and consultant, he helps individuals and organizations such as CDW, Horizon Pharma, and 9 Energy develop leadership and performance strategies, so they can plan, prepare, and execute at the highest levels when it matters most. Find his website here! https://stephendrum.com/