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A BRIEF HISTORY OF CDW AND IT A BRIEF HISTORY OF CDW MEANWHILE, ACROSS IT 2018 2018 CDW ranks #189 IBM unveils Summit, on the Fortune 500 the world’s fastest supercomputer, e CDW Technoliner at 200,000 trillion calculations retires after five years #189 per second of service e Federal Communications CDW opens new office Commission rolls back in Nashville, TN net neutrality rules e global business value of artificial intelligence is projected to reach $1.2T 2017 CDW launches standalone 2017 Small Business unit e market for Internet CDW ranks #199 of ings tech rises to on the Fortune 500 $674B Sales: $15.2B Intel unveils Compute #199 Card, a compute platform Coworkers: 8,700 the size of a credit card Western Digital produces “skyscraper” 3-D NAND flash chips with 64 stacked layers and three 2016 bits per cell CDW opens new Lincolnshire office Kelway becomes CDW CDW ranks #220 2016 on the Fortune 500 Windows 10 runs CDW surpasses $1.5B #220 on 200 million in sales of workloads computers delivered via cloud, Wireless monitors go and $1B in security mainstream solution sales OLED screens begin Sales: $13.9B to replace LCD in PCs Coworkers: 8,500 Dell acquires EMC, forming Dell Technologies 2015 CDW ranks #253 #253 on the Fortune 500 2015 CDW opens new Enterprise e Federal Command Center in Vernon Communications Hills, IL, expanding managed Commission rules in services and cloud capabilities favor of net neutrality Forbes names CDW to its Microsoft discontinues inaugural list of “America’s support for Windows Best Employers” Server 2003 CDW and Dell grow HP splits into Hewlett their partnership Packard Enterprise CDW acquires and HP Inc. U.K.-based solutions provider Kelway Sales: $12.9B Coworkers: 8,400 2014 Apple launches Apple Pay DHL makes the 2014 first delivery CDW completes a 35% via drone investment in Kelway, a leading Wearable tech U.K. technology services and goes mainstream solutions company with Google Glass, CDW ranks #265 #265 Apple Watch on the Fortune 500 and more CDW hits cloud stride with more than 40 leading industry partners Sales: $12.1B Coworkers: 7,200 2013 3-D printers available to consumer market 2013 Sony releases 2012 CEO Tom Richards the Sony Xperia Acer and also becomes 2012 Tablet Z, the Samsung launch CDW revenue chairman of the board world’s thinnest first education exceeds $10B CDW launches the and lightest tablet Chromebooks Technoliner, “the CDW employs ultimate technology nearly 1,400 vehicle” technology specialists and CDW ranks #267 engineers on the Fortune 500 Sales: $10.1B CDW lists on NASDAQ Coworkers: 6,800 Sales: $10.8B 2010 Coworkers: 7,000 Apple introduces iPad Verizon introduces 4G LTE, which provides mobile ultra- broadband Internet access 2011 Tom Richards becomes CEO 2007 CDW launches “People Who Get IT” Apple introduces the iPhone campaign, focusing on how technology and iOS 1.0, superseding solves everyday business problems other mobile devices Sales: $9.6B Amazon.com opens Coworkers: 6,700 up the digital media world with the Kindle 2009 Tom Richards joins CDW as president 2006 and COO 2008 Blu-ray debuts as Sales: $7.2B CDW becomes the high-definition Coworkers: 6,250 official technology alternative to DVDs partner for the Twitter launches as real-time social PGA TOUR and networking and micro blogging TOM Champions Tour RICHARDS service – users send messages in Sales: $8.1B 140 characters or less Coworkers: 6,250 2005 Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim 2007 found YouTube to CDW goes private, purchased by digitally upload, Madison Dearborn Partners and 2003 share and view Originally Facemash, Providence Equity Partners videos which enables college Sales: $8.1B students to compare Coworkers: 6,300 two students’ photos to vote who’s “hot” and who’s “not,” Mark Zuckerberg streamlines 2002 social networking with LinkedIn founded Facebook as a social 2006 networking site CDW acquires Berbee Information for professionals Networks, adding two new data centers and 11 new offices in six states CDW employs more than 760 advance technology specialists and engineers 2001 Sales: $6.8B Apple introduces iTunes digital jukebox Coworkers: 5,480 software and the iPod, offering “1,000 songs in your pocket” XM Radio launches digital satellite radio in Dallas/Fort Worth and San Diego 2005 CDW opens the 2003 Western Distribution CDW purchases Center in Las Vegas, NV Micro Warehouse 1999 Total distribution assets RIM introduces BlackBerry in 1998 center space exceeds Micro Warehouse Stanford students Munich, Germany, 950,000 sq. ft. Canada becomes Larry Page and as a line of handheld CDW Canada Sergey Brin create CDW launches CDW wireless devices Healthcare CDW launches Google as a universal digital library Sales: $6.3B dedicated small business team Coworkers: 4,300 Sales: $4.66B Coworkers: 3,600 1997 IBM Big Blue beats reigning 2001 world chess champion Garry Kasparov John Edwardson becomes CEO and chairman Vic Hayes, chairman of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, invents Wi-Fi to CDW debuts on the Fortune connect electronic devices to the Internet 500 at #435 and on the JOHN through wireless network access points EDWARDSON NASDAQ 100 Sales: $3.96B Coworkers: 2,783 MP3 1996 Karl-Heinz Brandenburg, omas Sporer, Bernd Kurten, Bernhard Grill and 1998 Ernest Eberlein of German company CDW-G founded to further Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft invent the MP3 support government and to download and listen to music files education customers Sales: $1.73B Coworkers: 1,504 1995 Windows 95 reshapes the market Phillips, Sony, Toshiba and Panasonic develop 1997 the DVD to offer a higher storage capacity CDW establishes headquarters in Vernon Hills, IL; exceeds $1B 1995 sales mark CDW embraces 1993 Sales: $1.27B online sales by Adobe Systems makes PDF introducing available free of charge as a Coworkers: 986 CDW.com proprietary format Sales: $628M Coworkers: 539 1991 e first 1989 website goes Tim Berners-Lee online at CERN joins hypertext with the Internet to create the 1990 World Wide Web omas Knoll 1993 HP debuts first and John Knoll’s CDW completes first mass-market Photoshop IPO; lists on NASDAQ inkjet printer launched by Sales: $270M Adobe Coworkers: 247 1987 Dennis Austin and omas Rudkin 1987 rename Presenter as PowerPoint, CDW publishes first catalog changing staff meetings forever CDW offers first services, helping customers set up their computers CDW begins hiring coworkers 1986 Fujifilm introduces the with technical expertise 1985 disposable camera Microsoft releases first version 1985 of Windows CDW runs first national advertisement in PC World magazine 1984 Apple introduces Macintosh Sony and Phillips invent CD-ROM with 650 MB of data, replacing the floppy disk, which only holds 1.5 MB 1984 CDW founded ©2017 CDW.
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