DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS

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CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE • VIRTUALIZATION • STORAGE • NETWORKING • BACKUP & RECOVERY • POWER & COOLING 2

INCREASE AGILITY, STARTING IN YOUR DATA CENTER.

Chances are, at least part of your data At CDW, we’ll help you bring your center isn’t making the grade, and underperforming infrastructure up that could be holding you back more to speed. We can assess your than you realize. In today’s fast-paced environment, design the best approach, world, some of your most critical deploy your solution and manage it operations revolve around technology. throughout its lifecycle. Because with And for those systems to work, you a flexible, resilient and efficient data need an infrastructure that’s ready to center, you can support flexibility, support your changing workloads and resiliency and efficiency throughout organizational needs. your organization. CDW.com/datacenter | 800.800.4239

OUR DATA CENTER STRATEGY The support you need for continued success.

When it comes to selecting, implementing and integrating new technologies, we’re here to help. In addition to helping you choose the right solutions for your budget and technical needs, we have an extensive portfolio of data center services and managed services to bring those solutions to life.

EXPERTS You’ll get access to a team of experts who can help you modernize your data center and better support your organization.

ACCOUNT MANAGERS SOLUTION ARCHITECTS DATA CENTER ENGINEERS Your account manager has Our team of more than 200 With decades of experience, insight into the latest data solution architects and data our data center engineers center technologies and center specialists can help you are able to provide technical can help you learn about the evaluate your environment expertise, build your actual solutions that best fit your and tailor a custom solution solution and offer ongoing organization’s needs. to meet your specific goals. support to keep your equipment up and running.

PARTNERSHIPS We work with a variety of leading vendors to bring you a wide selection of products and solutions. Our close relationships with these trusted providers give us additional knowledge to help determine which technologies are right for your requirements.

SERVICES & SUPPORT Modernizing your data center is a big undertaking, so we offer a variety of services to help with the process. Our data center assessments evaluate your current environment and recommend the best approach, while our end-to-end services can help you implement your solution, from configuring new equipment and migrating workloads to managing and maintaining the components of your updated data center.

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OUR PORTFOLIO OF SOLUTIONS A comprehensive approach, customized for you.

From high-performing servers and next-generation storage equipment to networking infrastructure and software, we have all the components you need for a future-ready data center. More important, we have the expertise to help you determine your needs and build a customized solution to meet them. Our data center products, solutions and services offering encompasses: • Converged Infrastructure • Data Center Networking • Virtualization • Backup & Recovery • Storage • Power & Cooling

GATHERING INSIGHT INTO YOUR ENVIRONMENT

To help you determine which solution areas your organization should address, we offer workshops to review your current infrastructure. DATA CENTER WORKSHOP DISCOVERY WORKSHOPS With this half-day session, a CDW data Utilizing the information gathered in the center solution architect will discuss the Data Center Workshop, we’ll recommend a latest data center optimization technologies series of Discovery Workshops in order to and best practices and conduct an overview gain a complete and accurate picture of your of your data center. We’ll identify current current environment. These workshops challenges, looking at application delivery cover topics including network, server, methods and requirements, disaster storage and physical environment and are recovery and continuity requirements, led by solution architects who specialize in standards compliance, and IT governance. each specific topic. Then, we’ll translate your goals into a forward-thinking strategy.

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CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE CDW

Bringing things together for optimal performance.

Simply updating or adding equipment as computing workloads, storage needs and network demands increase can leave you with a disjointed ecosystem. To help you truly optimize, we bring you all the hardware and software you need to build a converged data center environment, plus the strategy needed for a well-integrated solution. We can help you streamline your data center with: • P reconfigured integrated systems that • Hyperconverged appliances that tightly pool servers, storage, networking and integrate compute, storage, networking software together and virtualization into a single, flexible • P revalidated reference architectures to modular appliance support flexible workload requirements

End-to-end support for your converged infrastructure.

ASSESS DESIGN DEPLOY MANAGE We partner with top vendors like these to bring Let us evaluate your Our experts can help When it comes We offer hosted you the best in converged overall infrastructure you plan and design time to implement private clouds that infrastructure solutions. with a data center architectures that technologies like run on a managed assessment or review utilize converged FlexPod, FlexPod FlexPod and are technologies such as appliances such as Express, VSPEX hosted in our own FlexPod™ and VSPEX® FlexPod, FlexPod and Vblock™, our data centers. And to with our health check Express and VSPEX. engineers can help best meet your needs, offerings. We also you get them up and you can choose from offer assessments running and assist three different tiers to help with data with data migration. of support. migration.

The benefits of a converged infrastructure plan.

• Tightly integrate your servers, storage, • Improve application performance networking and software components and availability by improving allocation • R educe administration costs by minimizing of resources capital expenses and improving operational • S treamline support models and offer efficiencies scalability to meet changing demands • S implify management with a single platform

THE CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE WHITE PAPER

Market PAYOFF FOR I.T. The Converged Infrastructure Pulse Payoff for IT PRE-VALIDATED SYSTEMS ASSIST IT’S EFFORT TO SIMPLIFY This white paper explains how prevalidated systems INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT AND FREE UP RESOURCES FOR INNOVATION EFFORTS.

As IT organizations continue to optimize infrastructure management and strive for new ways to support the business, can help you simplify infrastructure management many are finding that converged infrastructure solutions advance those goals by simplifying data center management and freeing up IT resources for innovation efforts. In a recent IDG survey, almost one-third of respondents indicate they have already implemented such solutions, while another third plan to do so and focus on innovation. Read it at CDW.com/payoff within the next two years. Converged infrastructure solutions aggregate commonly deployed IT infrastructure components—servers, storage, networking, virtualization and software—into pre-packaged or pre-validated systems that are delivered directly from the vendor or reseller channel for streamlined consumption.

» Dealing with Complexity Overload Today, complexity is stifling innovation in the enterprise data center. Many traditional data centers are burdened with a sprawl both cited as concerns by 46 percent of survey participants of disjointed equipment. Running outdated technologies adds at enterprise-class companies. However, the increase in to the cost of maintenance, and disparate systems can hinder infrastructure complexity is cited two and a half times more performance and growth. frequently by those who have yet to deploy converged IDG Research Services recently surveyed 115 IT professionals infrastructure than by those who have. — 45 percent holding executive-level titles — on market Outdated data centers not only chew up IT budgets, they dynamics affecting IT decisions, including the top data center also often perpetuate silos of information and are a barrier to challenges impacting organizations, as well as current and implementing new consumption models of IT services. In the IDG planned installations of converged infrastructure solutions. survey, 45 percent of enterprise respondents said the transition Survey respondents indicated that two-thirds of IT time is to a new consumption model—whether public, private or hybrid allocated to maintenance and operations of IT assets, while cloud—is a major challenge. just one third is allocated to IT innovation. That focus on what is Converged infrastructure solutions combine hardware commonly referred to as “keeping the lights on” stands in the integration, software orchestration and, in some cases, way of the top technology initiative cited by 58 percent of survey specific system engineering and configuration into holistic rack respondents: identifying new ways IT can support the business. architectures designed to operate harmoniously. They can While security and budget issues are seen as the top be instrumental in consolidating data center size, improving technology challenges over the next 12 months, increasing resource utilization, lowering total cost of ownership and infrastructure complexity and aging legacy systems were providing a foundation for a future cloud transition. “IT can be complicated, so during the past few years the idea of an easy-to-deploy, all-in-one compute network and storage appliance has taken hold and been dubbed converged infrastructure,” Network World’s Brandon Butler notes. “What started as a niche market a few years ago has blossomed into a multi-billion dollar business with many of technology’s biggest players involved.” 6

VIRTUALIZATION CDW

Enabling efficiencies throughout your data center.

When it comes to virtualization, maximizing your server resources is only the beginning. As software-defined IT ecosystems gain momentum, we can help you design a plan that extends efficiency, flexibility and security to your storage, network and more. Our virtualization offerings include: • S oftware-defined Data Center (SDDC) • C lient virtualization architectures • Server virtualization • Storage virtualization • Network virtualization

End-to-end support for your virtualization solution.

ASSESS DESIGN DEPLOY MANAGE In addition to our full Our experts can To help get your With multiple service server virtualization assist with planning solution off the levels to fit your assessments, we and design for your ground, we offer support needs, we can conduct health virtualization solution jump start and can host and manage checks on your and can engineer implementation your virtual machines VMware ESXi™ pilot deployments for for VMware ESXi using VMware, Citrix® and vSphere™ and Microsoft Hyper-V. and vSphere and and Microsoft. Microsoft® Hyper-V® implementation for technologies. Microsoft Hyper-V.

The benefits of a virtualization plan.

• Increase efficiency, lower costs, simplify app • Allow for automated provisioning of We partner with top provisioning and provide exceptional uptime resources and better performance by vendors like these to bring you the best in with simple administration and management eliminating siloed storage and network virtualization solutions. with SDDC device interfaces and hardware with SDDC • S et the foundation for more simple • Improve control over applications and and supported cloud deployments centrally house data for increased security with virtualization with client virtualization GIVE YOUR DATA CENTER A BOOST.

SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER THE CHALLENGES | THE SOLUTION | THE BENEFITS

GIVE YOUR DATA CENTER A BOOST This guide details how a software-defined data center can better support your organization. Read it at CDW.com/boost

Server virtualization alone is no longer enough to bring your data center to the front of the pack. As demands continue to increase, you should consider a software-defined data center (SDDC), which virtualizes server, storage and network assets together. And at CDW, we can help you map out a unified plan to MAXIMIZE DATA CENTER PERFORMANCE. CDW.com/datacenter | 800.800.4239

STORAGE CDW

Keeping data organized and accessible.

Data is growing at an unprecedented rate, and it can be tempting to tack on additional storage devices and archiving solutions just for a place to put it all. But what you really need is a cohesive and efficient solution that’s prepared for the data yet to come and prevents the problems that come with a congested storage landscape. We can help you build a smart storage strategy that could include: • S torage area networks (SANs), network- • Flash storage attached storage (NAS) and direct-attached • Hierarchical storage management storage (DAS) • Cloud storage

End-to-end support for your storage solution.

ASSESS DESIGN DEPLOY MANAGE We offer Before creating a To help you roll We can take on the assessments blueprint for your out your new tasks associated with of your storage storage plan, we’ll storage solution, monitoring, upgrades, environment as well conduct planning we offer hardware maintenance, We partner with top as data migration and design sessions implementation, reporting, and vendors like these to assessments and to determine your software installation hardware and bring you the best storage health checks. organization’s needs and data migration software incident and storage networking solutions. and goals. assistance. management for our EMC®, NetApp®, IBM®, Cisco® and Brocade® partner storage and storage networking offerings.

The benefits of a strategic storage plan.

• Improve IT control and visibility with updated • Improve manageability and portability storage management tools of storage resources with SAN, NAS and • B etter meet enterprise storage needs with DAS – potentially lowering storage costs fast, reliable and efficient flash storage • Determine an accurate cost-per-performance • A djust to changing storage needs with highly balance for your storage tiers using scalable, cost-effective cloud storage hierarchical storage management

WHITE PAPER

FLASH: THE NEXT STEP IN STORAGE FLASH: THE NEXT STEP.. IN STORAGE.. Solid-state storage delivers faster, more reliable and more efficient This white paper covers the benefits of solid- performance to meet today’s enterprise storage needs. state storage and how it can best be utilized.

Executive Summary Read it at CDW.com/flashstorage Demand for data storage is growing — and fast. The need to quickly and efficiently process and access data is growing as well. Ubiquitous server virtualization, cloud computing, streaming media and communications, online transaction processing, Big Data, and a host of high-performance computing (HPC) applications – this list barely touches on the numerous scenarios that now rely on fast and responsive storage on an enterprise scale.

Hard disk drives (HDDs) are the backbone of many enterprise data storage and management systems. Yet they remain the last, unbroken bottleneck in the enterprise computing chain. Computing and networking performance have increased Table of Contents greatly over the years, but disk rotation speeds topped out at 15,000 revolutions per minute (rpm) back in 2000, and improved storage interfaces such as SATA and SAS have 2 Where Flash Fits yielded only incremental performance gains. 3 Metrics Matter Another consideration is that HDDs are increasingly challenged by virtualized environments, which scramble input/output 3 SSD Use Cases (I/O) operations among multiple virtual machines and pooled storage resources. This randomized I/O is particularly hostile 4 CDW: A Storage Partner That Gets IT to mechanical spinning-disk drives, which are at their best moving sequential data.

Enter flash-based, solid-state drive storage. SSDs use nonvolatile flash memory to present a disk drive subsystem with no moving parts that is able to deliver big performance gains over traditional spinning media. Storage infrastructures based on SSDs are much more responsive and significantly more reliable and efficient than HDDs. The drawback? Solid-state storage is a great deal more expensive than spinning media.

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DATA CENTER NETWORKING CDW

Keeping increased traffic under control.

High-bandwidth deployments like virtualization and cloud computing support your organization but can put massive strains on your network. To properly manage the changing traffic patterns of your data and applications, you need a highly optimized network. Our experts can help you improve the performance of your network so it can help keep your entire data center humming along. Our WAN and application optimization solutions include: • Upgraded routing and switching equipment • Caching, compression, deduplication • Application delivery controllers (ADCs) and QoS capabilities

End-to-end support for your data center networking solution.

ASSESS DESIGN DEPLOY MANAGE To help identify We can help you Once you’ve Our team can assist specific problem areas plan and design an decided on the with monitoring, in your environment, upgraded network right approach, upgrades, we offer an extensive infrastructure our experts can maintenance, range of network and provide proof assist with the reporting and assessments including of concept to implementation hardware incident WAN acceleration help ensure it is a and installation management assessments, network good fit with your of new network for Layer 2 and 3 We partner with top health checks and data environment. technologies. switches, routers, vendors like these to bring network roadmaps. load balancers, and you the best in data center WAN optimizers. networking solutions.

The benefits of a data center networking plan.

• S upport increased application demands with • A void costly downtime and lost productivity an optimized network design by improving network performance, • G ive employees consistent, reliable access to availability and continuity of operations the tools they need to do their jobs by delivering • Prepare for future needs by increasing applications faster and more securely network flexibility and scalability

WHITE PAPER PERFORMANCE BOOST: GETTING PERFORMANCE BOOST: GETTING.. THE MOST OUT OF THE WAN THE MOST OUT OF THE WAN..

When network traffic gets heavy, WAN and application This white paper explains how to ease traffic and optimization technologies can help overcome challenges. increase efficiencies as your network demands evolve. Read it at CDW.com/performanceboost

Executive Summary Technology trends have affected how organizations Table of Contents use their networks. For example, cloud computing puts essential IT resources outside the walls of the data center, 2 The Situation increasing demands on the network while heightening the need for uptime and security. And traffic patterns continue 2 Why Do Organizations Need to change as applications, platforms and infrastructure are WAN Optimization? moved off premises. 3 The Bandwidth Dilemma Mobile computing also places new demands on the wide 3 Core WAN Optimization Technologies area network (WAN), adding new endpoints and apps that create and transmit exponentially more data over 5 WAN Optimization Controllers wider areas. The increased traffic over WANs demands greater bandwidth or more efficient handling of the limited 6 Application Delivery Controllers bandwidth available. Trouble starts when this traffic 7 WAN Optimization and becomes congested and the network experiences latency, Network Security which slows down performance and frustrates users.

WAN and application optimization technologies represent 8 CDW: A WAN Optimization Partner a solution. Rather than increasing the amount of bandwidth That Gets IT available (a costly and sometimes ineffective solution), these technologies use a variety of innovative techniques to improve the efficiency with which traffic travels along the network.

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BACKUP & RECOVERY CDW

Protecting your organization from data loss.

Not surprisingly, your data is a critical component of your data center. In the case of a disaster, you need to be able to recover data quickly to keep operations running smoothly. We can help you build a customized plan that better supports your organization by streamlining backups and data management. Your backup and recovery solution could include: • Cloud backup • Data deduplication • Centralized data management • Multi-data-center replication

End-to-end support for your backup and recovery solution.

ASSESS DESIGN DEPLOY MANAGE We can conduct a For solutions Our team can You can offload tasks health check on the such as Microsoft also take care of like monitoring, backup and recovery System Center Data implementation upgrades, systems you have Protection Manager for TSM; SCDPM; maintenance, in place such as (SCDPM), we can lead and EMC Avamar®, reporting, and We partner with top IBM Tivoli® Storage planning, design and RecoverPoint and hardware and vendors like these to bring Manager (TSM). pilot deployment. Data Domain. software incident you the best in backup and recovery solutions. management for systems from partners like IBM, NetApp and CommVault® onto our expert teams.

The benefits of a comprehensive backup and recovery plan.

• Prepare for unanticipated data loss with • Accelerate data recovery by minimizing offsite backups redundant data • A utomate and streamline time-consuming • Strengthen disaster recovery by hosting backup processes with centralized backups on multiple servers across data data management that enables remote centers management of your data landscape

BACKUP AND RESTORE EFFICIENTLY Get answers to common backup questions from one of our inside solution architects at CDW.com/efficientrestores 10

POWER & COOLING CDW

Maximizing energy efficiency and increasing uptime.

Overheating. Power surges. Energy inefficiency. They may sound like minor problems, but they take time and funds away from your IT infrastructure. Instead, we can help you find power and cooling solutions that protect your equipment, maximize efficiency and save you money. And as one of the largest providers of power protection products, we offer competitive pricing and dedicated resources and rebate programs. A comprehensive power and cooling solution will include: • Cooling and housing equipment • Energy management resources • U ninterrupted power supplies (UPSs) and software and power distribution units (PDUs)

End-to-end support for your power and cooling solution.

ASSESS DESIGN DEPLOY MANAGE EnergySTEP Data Utilizing our To help ensure By hosting your Center Assessments partnerships with seamless integration environment in from APC® and CDW top vendors, we can with your existing one of our data can provide insight help you choose power and cooling centers, you can into your power and the right power and infrastructure, we offload the burden of cooling landscape cooling equipment can assist with the managing data center and identify areas for your budget and installation of new infrastructure and for improvement. technical needs. appliances. operations, including power and cooling.

The benefits of a power and cooling plan.

• Increase uptime by controlling airflow • Maximize energy efficiencies and cost We partner with top vendors like these to bring and keeping your infrastructure cool savings thanks to management resources you the best in power and and running smoothly that monitor energy use and identify cooling solutions. • S afeguard against potential disasters potential problems by protecting your data center in the case of a power failure

CASE STUDY STATE-OF-THE-ARTS STATE-OF-THE-ARTS PROTECTION PROTECTION See how we helped a community college implement a power and cooling solution in their new Center for Arts and Media at CDW.com/slcc

Casey Moore and his team chose a hot-aisle containment strategy for Salt Lake Community College’s new Center for Arts and Media At a Glance data center, standardizing on APC equipment. ORGANIZATION: Salt Lake Community College

LOCATIONS: Salt Lake Community 10 campuses in and around Salt Lake City and its suburbs College relies on APC’s EMPLOYEES: power and cooling About 4,000 (faculty and staff)

technology to keep its I.T. STAFF: 65 full-time; 35 part-time (including lab brand-new Center for aides)

Arts and Media data DESCRIPTION: center humming. Founded in 1948, Salt Lake Community College offers more than 200 degree and certificate programs in technical, academic and vocational fields, including several in film and video production at its new Center for Arts and Media on the South City campus. The college is the largest higher education institution in the state of Utah.

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FACILITIES State-of-the-art sites to build, demonstrate and host your solution.

CONFIGURATION CENTERS Between our configuration centers in Las Vegas and Vernon Hills, IL, we have a staff of more than 130 trained and certified technicians. They’re on hand to build a host of solutions to your exact specifications quickly and accurately. Their expertise can help you minimize downtime, eliminate the need to hire outside consultants and speed your deployment with solutions that are ready for implementation as soon as they arrive onsite. Services conducted at our configuration centers include: • Complex hardware and software • Routers configurations • Enclosures • Network and connectivity testing • Customer configured racks • Configuration of clustered servers • Network devices • RAID configurations • Custom cabling

TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE CENTERS (TEC) Optimizing your data center is a complex process that integrates seemingly disparate components into a comprehensive solution. To help you better understand how it all comes together, we bring these solutions to life at our Technology Experience Centers. There, you can experience the latest in data center technologies, see how integrated solutions work together in a real environment, compare solutions side by side and explore the benefits of modernizing your data center. Visit our TECs in person or virtually to see: • Static demonstrations of user interface • Insight into the building of a solution- and overall software capabilities enriched strategy • Clarification and verification of specific • Evaluation of software functional software functionality solution configurations • Verification of software functions

CDW DATA CENTERS Located in Chicago, Dallas, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Madison and Fitchburg, WI, our world-class data centers offer customers full racks and high power densities. We provide Tier 3 and Tier 4 data centers with SLAs of 99.982% and 99.995%, respectively. Let us help you decide which workloads to have hosted and managed by our teams, knowing that our state-of-the-art data centers can provide the capacity, security and efficiencies your organization needs. Wherever you are on the path to To research the latest data center optimization, we’re here to help you innovations or learn more about our along the way. With years of experience comprehensive approach, visit working with organizations like yours, we CDW.com/datacenter. You’ll find a have the expertise to help you determine variety of resources, from webinars and the right solution and bring it to life. videos to infographics and white papers.

If you have any questions or are ready to start optimizing your data center, contact your account manager or call 800.800.4239.

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