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The Era of Intelligent Infrastructure
Exploring the Platform of the Future and how it helps align technology with your organisation's strategic goals.
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The Era of Intelligent Infrastructure
With the cloud boom behind us, the challenge now isn’t about adoption; it's about control and value extraction. Every IT leader is being pushed to deliver innovation at a pace that enables the organisation to outperform the competition. The challenge is unlocking this whilst meeting three competing priorities.
• Operational Simplicity
• Security Everywhere
• Economic Discipline
With Gartner suggesting that 45% of CIOs are driving a shift to co-ownership of digital leadership, the need to balance the demands of technical or transformational innovation (CIO/CTO) with operational stability (COO) and financial sustainability (CFO) is critical. This is where the Hybrid Infrastructure discussion becomes strategic. It offers a way to reconcile innovation, control, and resilience within one unified operating model.
Six Key Trends impacting decision makers between 2026 & 2030
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Pepatriation of 15% <> 20% of workloads
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In 2026, the most successful leaders won’t be those who pick a single cloud or platform; they will be the ones who can align cross-functional priorities through infrastructure intelligence, delivering:
• AI for insights and decision making
• FinOps and GreenOps as shared CFO/CTO metrics
• Automation and AIOps as COO enablers
• Data protection and sovereignty as a unifying language across all three
The CDW Platform of the Future model is designed to bring these competing challenges and market trends into sharp focus and help define an actionable roadmap. We believe the future is Hybrid, and our Right Workload | Right Platform approach allows us to provide a truly independent viewpoint.
• AI for insights and decision making
• FinOps and GreenOps as shared CFO/CTO metrics
• Automation and AIOps as COO enablers
• Data protection and sovereignty as a unifying language across all three
The CDW Platform of the Future model is designed to bring these competing challenges and market trends into sharp focus and help define an actionable roadmap. We believe the future is Hybrid, and our Right Workload | Right Platform approach allows us to provide a truly independent viewpoint.
SPEAKERS
Rob Sims
Chief Technologist - Hybrid Platforms
at CDW UK
at CDW UK
Christian Williams
Nutanix Business Development
Executive at CDW UK
Executive at CDW UK
Steve Jackson
Solution Sales Specialist - Manchester
James Ford
Solution Sales Specialist -
London
London
Schedule
3:00 pm - 5:00 pM
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.
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 challenges inc.
- • 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.
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.
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.
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.
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