DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS CDW NOW OPTIMIZATION IS WITHIN REACH. 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. CDW SOLUTIONS BLOG Read what our solution architects think about the latest data center technologies and trends at blog.CDW.com 4 WE’RE HERE TO HELP, EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. ASSESS DESIGN DEPLOY MANAGE 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. DATA CENTER VIDEO CHANNEL Explore videos that cover a variety of topics within the data center at CDW.com/datacentervideo CDW.com/datacenter | 800.800.4239 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 • Prevalidated 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, • I mprove 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