Agenda
Rob Sims – Chief Technologist (Hybrid Platforms) – Office of the CTO
The Hybrid Cloud Market Trends:
Consolidating experience from hundreds of customer conversations, platform deployments, and partner engagements, we will share the trends and demands impacting hybrid cloud decision makers.
Platform of the Future:
We will share our platform of the future architecture and approach to help you adapt and augment your cloud strategies in alignment with the business objectives and ever-evolving market demands.
Christian Williams – Hybrid Cloud Specialist
Customer Transformation Stories, how CDW have collaborated with other organisations to solve their challenge. Some examples of what will be discussed are:
- VMware by Broadcom disruption, how we helped customers transition and migrate to alternative technologies
- Public Cloud, how we have helped customers accelerate their journey, repatriate, and optimise with Hybrid Cloud capabilities, including Disaster Recovery
- Managed Services, how we have helped augment and support customer IT teams, with a variety of tailored services to free up time so they can focus on their core business
- Real-world lessons learned from deployments
Rob Sims – Chief Technologist (Hybrid Platforms) – Office of the CTO
Right Workload, Right Platform
Learn how CDW has adopted what we call the Right Workload, Right Platform approach to ensure you are delivering the most cost-efficient outcomes when it comes to workload placement. The Gartner Workload Placement in Hybrid IT report shares that 85% of workload placements will no longer be optimal by 2027.
Open Discussion
This is a guided discussion on your real-world challenges with adopting hybrid cloud. Ask the CDW team anything and collaborate with peers.
Alan James Brown – Snr Sales Manager Â
CDW – Your Transformation partner of Choice – Why we can help deliver your business outcomes
Networking Drinks at a local venue to the CDW office.
With $45 billion to be wasted on IT infrastructure spend in 2025 alone, can you afford not to explore all the options modern strategies offer?
Almost everyone now accepts that the future of infrastructure platforms is on a trajectory to be hybrid. The days of a single technology strategy or the warped cloud-only era have thankfully passed us by. IT leaders need to adopt an adaptive strategy that can flex to meet the unknown demands of the coming years. We call this new world order 'The Platform of the Future', while not a SKU you can purchase, it is a framework and approach to guide technology decisions and ensure alignment to current and future needs. Our vision statement for this approach is:
"For all organisations to be running on sustainable, cyber resilient and performant platforms, that support all application requirements. Enabling data to be leveraged as a foundation for decision making, driving change and delivering exceptional customer experiences"
Technology leaders are now required to blend the latest-generation edge capabilities with virtual machine-optimised core platforms and modern application-capable clouds. Realigning hybrid cloud strategies has never been more critical to future success.
Join us at your local CDW office, where we will walk through how to create your own Platform of the Future. With zero product pitches, the CDW team will explore the why, what, and how of creating a future-proof strategy that will elevate your future.
The two-hour session will include our Office of the CTO sharing future-looking trends and demands impacting the hybrid cloud landscape, along with strategy advice aligned to the Platform of the Future approach. We will share a selection of real-world customer deployments that highlight the challenge, outcome and lessons learnt from our time in the trenches deploying the technology (don’t worry, this won’t get too techy). Finally, we will host an open discussion session allowing knowledge to be shared openly between all attendees, enabling everyone to expand their networks and gain valuable lessons directly from peers. Finally, those who wish to join, we will host a networking drinks session at a local venue.
The CDW team aggregates decades of experience and hundreds of customer engagements to help you avoid the mistakes others have made and augment your strategy with the latest thinking.
- Learn How to Align Hybrid Cloud Strategy with Business Objectives
- Gain Practical Insights from Real-World Deployments
- Understand How to Optimise for Cost, Control, and Performance
- Future-Proof Your Infrastructure with Expert Guidance
- Build Strategic Relationships with Technology Partners and Peers
- Understand real-world case studies, battle scars and all
Come and learn how to build a flexible hybrid cloud foundation that supports AI, edge, and evolving regulatory requirements, without needing a full rip-and-replace.
