Episode 9: How CDW Reorganized its Team to Deliver Hybrid Cloud Solutions
In this episode, KJ Burke and Alhagie Puye, Director of Solutions at CDW Canada, discuss the internal reorganization that was required to remove silos at CDW and better help customers achieve business outcomes from the hybrid cloud.
Featured in this Episode
KJ Burke is an innovative and driven IT infrastructure architect with solid interpersonal and communication skills. He is currently the Principal Technology Strategist at CDW Canada, with over 20 years in the IT industry and plenty of experience in planning and deploying technology to improve business processes and drive measurable value.
Alhagie Puye is the Director of Solutions at CDW Canada and leads the pre-sales technical teams that provide solutions to CDW Canada’s customers. Alhagie is a proven leader who thrives on building and motivating high-performance teams, as well as designing large-scale, highly available enterprise networks and data centres. He is an avid learner who is innately curious about all things IT, including automation, Big Data and analytics, artificial intelligence and IoT, and their applicability to solve real-world problems.
In this episode, we discuss…
- How CDW reorganized internally to remove silos between its public cloud and enterprise data centre teams
- Why CDW needed to move to a hybrid cloud strategy to better support customers
- Where CDW is seeing benefits from bringing teams together and changing the focus from technologies to business outcomes
- How the culture around hybrid cloud is changing
- Challenges we’ve seen from customers in adopting the hybrid cloud, and how to resolve them
- How to build high-performance teams: Investing in the right people, empowering them and supporting them with the right tools
- How to inspire change as a leader within an organization
Findings from our Cloud Report
Enterprise applications are being run on-premise and in cloud environments, resulting in 56% of organizations deploying a hybrid IT model
