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Oct 22, 2025
AI and Emerging Tech
Drive AI Innovation with Eaton’s Integrated Solutions and CDW
Article
4 min
As more organizations focus on edge AI for industrial automation, latency and power challenges may stifle innovation. Learn how Eaton’s integrated solutions help build and manage a feasible edge AI infrastructure with CDW.
Oct 09, 2025
Security
Which Cybersecurity Solutions Will Survive the Security Sandbox?
Video
32 min
In this pitch-show parody, five security partners present their satirical solutions to our panel... before explaining how their actual solutions can help secure your organization.
Sep 30, 2025
AI and Emerging Tech
Accelerate AI-Ready Productivity with Microsoft Surface Laptops and CDW
Article
9 min
In this blog, we explore how AI-ready devices accelerate organizational adoption of AI, and highlight five ways Microsoft Surface devices powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra processors (Series 2) empower employees to use AI productively.
Sep 16, 2025
Security
5 Ways to Address AI Security Challenges During the PoC Phase
Article
9 min
Canadian organizations, while keen on GenAI adoption, face critical barriers across skill, data and security functions. Uncover five key strategies that can help bridge GenAI gaps right from the PoC stage.
Sep 12, 2025
Digital Workspace
How Small and Medium Businesses Can Drive Growth with Copilot and Copilot Agents
Article
6 min
Microsoft Copilot and Copilot Agents offer powerful tools to help SMBs enhance efficiency, improve customer service and drive growth. Here are some of the best use cases for integrating Copilot into your business operations.
Sep 12, 2025
Digital Workspace
Implementing AI at Work? Here’s How to Cut Risks and Boost Performance
Article
11 min
This blog explores how Canadian workplaces are adopting AI tools, highlighting key adoption risks. It also offers actionable strategies for IT leaders to boost AI effectiveness through safe policies, expert partnerships and targeted training.
SECURITY
Create a Secure Digital Environment
Helping to protect you—and your end users—from security breaches.
Oct 09, 2025
Security
Which Cybersecurity Solutions Will Survive the Security Sandbox?
Video
32 min
In this pitch-show parody, five security partners present their satirical solutions to our panel... before explaining how their actual solutions can help secure your organization.
Sep 16, 2025
Security
5 Ways to Address AI Security Challenges During the PoC Phase
Article
9 min
Canadian organizations, while keen on GenAI adoption, face critical barriers across skill, data and security functions. Uncover five key strategies that can help bridge GenAI gaps right from the PoC stage.
Aug 31, 2025
Security
6 Strategies to Help Bridge Your Zero-Trust Security Gaps
Article
9 min
This blog unpacks the key challenges Canadian organizations face in operationalizing zero trust and provides six actionable strategies to bridge gaps in adoption alongside how CDW Canada’s can help streamline zero-trust security implementation.
Aug 22, 2025
Security
How Continuous Penetration Testing Can Help You Achieve Proactive Protection
Article
11 min
Point-in-time security tests may fall short in building cybersecurity preparedness against advanced threats. Learn how continuous penetration testing can help you build resilience with expert insights from our security professionals.
Jul 31, 2025
Security
When Malware Strikes: How to Build Resilience with Azure-Based Disaster Recovery
Article
4 min
Imagine walking into the office on a Monday morning to find your systems locked by ransomware. Productivity halts. Emails don’t send. Customer data is inaccessible. What would you do?
Jul 24, 2025
Security
FortiSASE: Implement SASE at Scale and Simplicity with CDW and Fortinet
White Paper
8 min
This whitepaper explores how SASE can help organizations solve security challenges associated with a distributed workforce alongside key SASE solution offerings from our partners at Fortinet for a simplified networking experience.
DATA CENTRE
Enhance your Data Centre
Learn about the cutting edge technology that makes up the modern data centre.
Mar 24, 2025
Data Center
How Lenovo & AMD Help You Build Data Centres That Can Run on Less Energy
Article
7 min
In this blog, we discuss how to amplify the energy efficiency of data centres alongside innovative solutions from our partners at Lenovo and AMD.
Mar 04, 2025
Data Center
How NVIDIA® NIMs Bring Speed, Scale and Simplicity to Your AI Project
Article
6 min
NIMs are small self-contained microservices running in a Docker container. NVIDIA makes them easy to deploy, streamlines the means of leveraging GPU resources and allows consumers to deploy NIMs using Helm Charts – a package manager for containers.
Feb 28, 2025
Data Center
How IT Leaders Can Scale & Sustain Their AI Infrastructure with NVIDIA® and CDW
Article
8 min
Here are 5 key priorities that can help IT decision-makers build an AI infrastructure they can easily scale and sustain in the long run. We also highlight AI solutions from our partners at NVIDIA that can be instrumental in overcoming AI bottlenecks.
Feb 21, 2025
Data Center
How CDW Helps Alectra Utilities Power Ontario Homes and Businesses
Article
6 min
How Alectra Utilities, Canada’s largest municipally owned utilities provider, serving over 1 million homes and businesses, teams up with CDW Canada to simplify networking, disaster recovery and infrastructure including consolidating 11 data centres.
Oct 18, 2024
Data Center
How CDW is Building Energy-Efficient HPC Clusters of Tomorrow
Article
10 min
In this blog, CDW’s HPC experts discuss the rise of high-performance computing in Canada and how organizations can build, operate and maintain energy-efficient HPC clusters of tomorrow.
Aug 12, 2024
Data Center
How Dell Helps You Meet a Growing Demand for Data Storage
Article
9 min
Recent advancements in digitization and AI have left organizations grappling with an unprecedented volume of data. In this blog, we discuss the key data challenges that hamper digital growth and how Dell Technologies can help you solve them.
Migrate data quickly and easily with minimal risk and zero-downtime.
Hear About the Latest Technology Innovations with Industry Experts
DIGITAL WORKSPACE
Embrace new ways of working
Sep 12, 2025
Digital Workspace
How Small and Medium Businesses Can Drive Growth with Copilot and Copilot Agents
Article
6 min
Microsoft Copilot and Copilot Agents offer powerful tools to help SMBs enhance efficiency, improve customer service and drive growth. Here are some of the best use cases for integrating Copilot into your business operations.
Sep 12, 2025
Digital Workspace
Implementing AI at Work? Here’s How to Cut Risks and Boost Performance
Article
11 min
This blog explores how Canadian workplaces are adopting AI tools, highlighting key adoption risks. It also offers actionable strategies for IT leaders to boost AI effectiveness through safe policies, expert partnerships and targeted training.
Aug 28, 2025
Digital Workspace
5 Tech Trends Driving Classroom Modernization Across Canada
Article
7 min
This blog explores how Canadian schools are modernizing classrooms with emerging technologies like AR/VR, AI, modular spaces and hybrid learning. Learn about the key benefits of modernization and how CDW can help your institution achieve the same.
Jun 27, 2025
Digital Workspace
How to Make Work from Anywhere Possible for Small Businesses
Article
7 min
CDW partners with several leading technology providers, including Jabra and Samsung, who offer SMB-focused solutions aimed at overcoming hybrid work hurdles. This blog offers several ways SMBs can get their workforce ready to work from anywhere.
Jun 19, 2025
Digital Workspace
From Visibility to Security, How SMBs Can Transform Manufacturing
Article
6 min
Small manufacturers require lean solutions that are easier to adopt and help them scale with agility. We focus on 3 core needs of manufacturing SMBs and how they can modernize fleets with digital solutions, minimizing complexity and constraints.
Jun 11, 2025
Digital Workspace
BTEX 2025: The Microsoft Copilot Revolution Transforming Canadian Workplaces
Article
6 min
Tech leaders from CDW Canada, Microsoft and CAAT Pension Plan share real-world AI adoption stories and lessons at BTEX 2025.
CLOUD
Complete your Cloud Journey
Jun 20, 2025
Cloud
How OpenText and Dropbox Simplify Cloud Data Management for Small Businesses
Article
7 min
Our partners at Dropbox and OpenText offer tailored solutions to help SMBs overcome hurdles. In this blog, we discuss 5 ways their solutions can assist in your cloud journey, whether you’re moving data to the cloud or looking to scale your services.
May 30, 2025
Cloud
BTEX 2025: How to Move to the Public Cloud with CDW and AWS
Article
4 min
In this session from CDW’s Business Technology Expo, experts from CDW and AWS discuss some of the challenges and solutions around public cloud infrastructure.
May 20, 2025
Cloud
5 Solutions that Can Help Simplify & Accelerate Your Hybrid Cloud Journey
Article
9 min
While IT teams gain the flexibility to design secure and scalable solutions with hybrid cloud, it may come with architectural complexities. These five solutions from our partners tackle key hybrid cloud challenges while simplifying adoption.
Apr 08, 2025
Cloud
Hybrid Cloud vs Public Cloud
Article
8 min
We break down the key differences between hybrid and public cloud so you can confidently choose the one that best supports your organization’s growth, flexibility and future needs.
Apr 08, 2025
Cloud
Advantages and Disadvantages of Hybrid Cloud
Article
8 min
Understand the nature of the hybrid cloud and learn about its advantages, challenges and best practices.
Mar 13, 2025
Cloud
Find Out if AWS Is Right for Your Organization with a CDW LEADS Assessment
Article
6 min
When you deploy workloads on AWS, choosing the right licencing directly impacts cost, performance and scalability. Learn how a CDW LEADS assessment can help you migrate smoothly to AWS.
