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CDW's Resource Center |
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CDW's business model focuses on small- and medium-sized businesses with 97 percent of sales derived from commercial accounts. CDW has built strong relationships within the technology sector and we are a leading direct source for Cisco, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, Toshiba, and other top name brands. Our success is due to our exceptional coworkers, who are the most important element of CDW's business strategy. To foster our coworkers' success, CDW has designed a rewarding and challenging work place, recognized as one of the best companies to work for in America. |
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Virtualization |
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Desktop Management and Security: Two Big Reasons Desktop Virtualization Is an Easy Choice
WHITE PAPER
-- This paper is actually a combination of four smaller papers all rolled into one PDF. It features articles on revisiting old virtualization practices for new business purposes, desktop virtualization strategies for faster provisioning and migration, network security concerns in a virtual environment, and more.
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Find Balance in Your Data Center
WHITE PAPER
-- Virtualization has become a common solution to the problem of server sprawl. By using this technology to consolidate servers, many companies are using less floor space, cutting energy consumption, and simplifying management. But IT must translate these technological advantages into concrete improvements for the business. Read on to learn more.
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Server Virtualization Solution Using VMware at Lakeview Medical Center
CASE STUDY
-- Lakeview Medical Center needed to optimize their IT environment to combat data center infrastructure challenges. CDW helped them put VMware to work consolidating their servers and providing a more efficient environment. Read this quick case study to learn how they reduced backup times, improved response times, and reduced cost of ownership.
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Virtual Servers, Real Savings
WHITE PAPER
-- With server virtualization, you do more with less. Instead of filling your data center with underutilized boxes, you run multiple operating systems and applications on a single physical machine. You make the most of your space while taking full advantage of your hardware investment. Read this whitepaper to learn more about these benefits.
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Evolution to Revolution: Landmark Technology Decouples Hardware from Software to Cut Cost and Complexity
WHITE PAPER
-- Read this white paper to learn more about virtualization and especially the similarities and differences between server virtualization and client virtualization. Which one holds more benefit for your organization?
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Desktop Demystified: Server-Centric Client Virtualization Model Reduces Costs While Improving Security and Flexibility.
WHITE PAPER
-- Client virtualization or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a server-centric computing model that offers IT the ability to host and centrally manage Virtual Machines while providing end users a full-desktop experience. If you haven’t yet discovered the advantages of a VDI, read this whitepaper and put yourself in command of the desktop.
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Consultation, Design, and Implementation of Multiple IT Solutions: Global Forex Trading
CASE STUDY
-- GFT focuses on providing their customers an exceptional experience with a best-in-class online interface. GFT needs to stay more accessible, more reliable, and more secure than their competitors. To optimize their IT environment, GFT engaged CDW for consulting, design, and implementation of multiple IT solutions. Read on to learn more.
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A Case to Optimize
WHITE PAPER
-- A business manager identifies an urgent need for a software application and requests a server to run the new application. Then the server provisioning process kicks off. Read this short whitepaper to learn about new techniques and technologies that can enable your business to cut through so much of the red tape involved in adding new applications.
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P2V Benefits: Moving Servers From the Physical to the Virtual World Cuts Costs, Saves Space and Parallels Green Initiatives
WHITE PAPER
-- Virtualization basically means inserting a software layer between your hardware and your operating system. This decouples the operating system from the hardware and allows you to run many operating systems at the same time on top of that same physical piece of hardware. Read this short paper to learn about the benefits of using virtual servers.
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Perfect Marriage: Coupling Blade Servers With a Virtual Infrastructure Can Cut Costs and Add Efficiencies
WHITE PAPER
-- The recent push for more efficient computing platforms has businesses venturing beyond basic servers and systems. In order to manage resources more effectively, save data center space, reduce IT administrative tasks, and go green, many organizations have turned to virtualization. Learn how your organization can benefit from virtualization.
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Say Yes to Virtualization: Server Virtualization Helps Businesses Achieve Considerable Reductions in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
WHITE PAPER
-- Virtualized servers are yielding dramatic cost savings through consolidation of physical resources, reductions in power and cooling requirements, and slashed operational expenses. It’s delivering a magnitude of benefits that many businesses find virtually amazing. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the benefits of server virtualization.
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Taking Control: Consolidation Can Help You Take Control of the Server Room
WHITE PAPER
-- Server sprawl creates a serious financial and efficiency leak at many organizations. Consolidation can help ease management requirements and reduce costs. Read this whitepaper to learn how to take control of server sprawl with a server consolidation solution.
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Virtualization Buzz and Benefits: Decoupling Hardware From Software for Greater Efficiency
WHITE PAPER
-- Advanced technology allows businesses to get maximum bang out of hardware buck while reducing server counts and support costs. Read this whitepaper to learn how virtualization can help your business get the most out of its server hardware.
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High Availability Lowdown
CASE STUDY
-- The Barkley ad firm implements consolidation, virtualization and replication to strengthen business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning. With the goal of getting to 100 percent availability, the firm uses HP's blade hardware, VMware's virtualization software and a variety of existing storage platforms.
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Disaster Recovery: Plan for the Worst, Expect the Best
WHITE PAPER
-- These days, it is rare to find a company without a disaster recovery plan - a fact due in large part to a rash of high-profile disasters in recent years. The risks are too great to ignore. But many companies are still not doing enough to protect their businesses. This paper provides tips for how to protect your business.
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Continuous Data Protection - Your Safety Net in a Disaster
WHITE PAPER
-- When you resume business after a disruption, you want to pick up where you left off. That means minutes, or even seconds, before the lights went out or the computer virus struck. If your business is aiming for zero data loss and zero downtime, there's only one choice - continuous data protection (CDP).
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Reality Check – A Smart Business Continuity Strategy Can Offer Maximum Results at Minimum Cost
WHITE PAPER
-- In an increasingly digital world, it's clear that business continuity is no longer an option. Keeping systems running 24x7 and ensuring that data reaches its intended destination — precisely when it's needed — is the heart and soul of a business. This paper discusses Business-Continuity (BC) initiatives on a tight budget and with limited resources.
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Disaster Got You Down?
WHITE PAPER
-- While trying to predict an outage is impossible, being prepared for one is not. Having the right tools in place to respond to a "disaster" is essential to sustaining a successful organization. A business-continuity / disaster-recovery plan can help you cut costs by avoiding downtime, lost revenue and dissatisfied customers.
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Disaster Plan - New Technologies Put Fresh Wrinkles in Business-Continuity / Disaster-Recovery Planning
WHITE PAPER
-- Business continuity/disaster recovery requires a holistic approach that includes storage, infrastructure, servers, applications, middleware and the network. If that weren't complicated enough, today's new technologies are testing traditional methods of backup and data protection. It's time to take another look at your BC/DR plan.
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Preparing to Stay in Business - Storage Continuity Critical in 24-Hour World
WHITE PAPER
-- You probably think it couldn't happen to you, but disastrous events occur more often than not. Perhaps not a hurricane or earthquake or malicious attack, but there are potential risks for every business. Developing a solid data-recovery plan can keep your business up and running in the event of a disaster or other unfortunate event.
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Step Up Your Strategy – Fine-Tune Use of Storage Availability Processes as a Part of a Business-Continuity Plan
WHITE PAPER
-- Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) should be major components of any risk-management strategy. After all, no business wants to be caught unprepared for unforeseen events such as floods, fires, terrorist attacks, power outages or other disturbances. That's why planning and regularly testing BC and DR programs is essential.
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Converged Communications: The Time Is Now
EGUIDE
-- This Trend Advisory guide features a series of articles on Unified Communications. Each piece covers a different aspect of the subject. Learn how convergence communications is changing everything in the business world as more and more companies are taking voice and video to the data network.
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Career Builder Puts the Network Into Networking
CASE STUDY
-- Read this case study and see how CareerBuilder turned to CDW to redefine a technology solution that could sustain the company's growth, and give them a competitive advantage to propel their fast-growing job network and keep their clients happy.
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The Power of Converged Networks
WHITE PAPER
-- Before moving forward with a converged network several key issues should be addressed: Capacity, security and reliability. CDW can help your organization by arming you with the information you need to choose the ideal solution.
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Networking and Unified Communications
WHITE PAPER
-- In an effort to drive profitability and rein in costs, businesses are continually seeking to improve operational capabilities. Primary to this objective are today’s burgeoning network infrastructures which are continually being asked to do more.
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Networking and Unified Communications Reference Guide
ESSENTIAL GUIDE
-- CDW is committed to getting you everything you need to make the right purchasing decisions — from products and services to information about the latest technology. This reference guides is designed to provide you with an in-depth look at Networking and unified communications as they relate to the IT challenges your organization faces.
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Allied Solutions Moves IP Telephony System to CDW Data Center
CASE STUDY
-- As part of a larger outsourcing project, Allied Solutions decided to outsource their IP Telephony infrastructure to take advantage of the stability, security, and redundancy that a data center could offer. To achieve this goal, they turned to CDW’s Hosting and Managed Services solutions.
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Get Connected: IP Convergence is No Longer a Thing of the Future, It's Now The Cost of Doing Business
WHITE PAPER
-- No longer a thing of the future, IP Convergence is now the cost of doing business. Unified Communications (UC) is the target destination for many enterprises. And while the concept is no longer new, IP convergence remains the first major step on that path.
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Case Study: Unified Communications and Indiana University Medical Group
CASE STUDY
-- When outdated equipment and disparate systems were hampering in-house communications, customer service, and workflow, Indiana University Medical Group turned to CDW for a three-part Cisco solution. This case study gives details on the benefits they gained.
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Case Study: Manchester College Replaces a Failing Voicemail and Phone System
CASE STUDY
-- Manchester College had phone and voicemail systems that had outlived their life expectancy. CDW implemented an advanced unified communications system that brought their phone and voicemail into the 21st century.
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