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Spring Catalog | 2020
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CDW AMPLIFIED Infrastructure Services
CDW AMPLIFIED Infrastructure Services
™
Today, applications need to scale rapidly, and users need access to complex data at increasing
speeds. It takes precise planning and execution to build a standards-based infrastructure
that meets business needs. CDW Amplified Infrastructure services bridge gaps in expertise,
TM
tools and resources to scale and future-proof your data center architecture.
CDW Amplified™ Networks CDW Amplified™ Data Center
• Data Center Networking • Software-Defined Data Center - Virtualization, Storage and Compute
• Enterprise Networking • Next-Gen Backup
• Data Center Migration and Optimization Services
CDW Amplified™ Hybrid Cloud • Compute and Storage
• Cloud • Power and Cooling
• Hyperconverged Infrastructure
CDW Amplified™ OS and Apps
• Operating Systems, Applications
and Services
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Data Center Networking
Solution Benefits • NSX Design and Planning Workshop:
Your organization can achieve the VMware NSX is the gold standard
following by employing a CDW Data for Software Defined Networking
Center Networking solution: (SDN) within VMware vSphere
environments. Its key features
• The ability to support increased
include Network Virtualization
application demands.
(L2/L3 routing and forwarding
• Give employees consistent, reliable within the Hypervfisor), Micro-
access to the tools they need to do Segmentation (firewalls between
their jobs by delivering applications servers) and Network Function
faster and more securely. Virtualization (virtualized firewalls,
• Avoid costly downtime and lost routers, load-balancers and VPN
productivity by improving network running on NSX edge). This design
High-bandwidth deployments and planning sessions is led by a CDW
performance, availability and
like virtualization and cloud NSX implementation engineer to
continuity of operations.
computing support your determine your organization’s NSX
organization but can put massive • Prepare for future needs by requirements, use cases and design
increasing network flexibility and strategy. We will work with you on
strains on your network. To
scalability. NSX feature and design decisions
properly manage the changing while developing a high-level design
traffic patterns of your data and Vendors Supported
document.
applications, you need a highly • Cisco
• HP • Multi Data Center Planning and
optimized network. Design: Customers with data centers
• F5
CDW’s experts can help you • NetScaler in multiple locations frequently
• VMware encounter networking challenges
improve the performance of your when attempting to get multiple sites
network so it can help keep your CDW can deliver additional Data Center
to operate well with each other. CDW
entire data center humming. solutions by utilizing its vast network of
can help build a solution to get the
third-party partner services providers.
most out of your multiple data center
Services locations.
CDW’s Data Center Networking services Orchestrate
fall into one of three lifecycle phases — Implementation/Adoption
Design, Orchestrate and Manage.
• Cisco ACI Jumpstart: This
Design engagement deploys ACI, getting it
Advisory/Assessment up and running in your environment
• Network Health Checks and along with moving some applications
Assessments: CDW will assess to the new platform.
your overall network infrastructure • NSX Proof of Concept with Micro-
and report back detailed findings Segmentation: This engagement is
and recommendations, including suited for customers who want to
a Network Inventory Report, L2/ test functionality of VMware NSX
L3 topology map, and configuration micro-segmentation features in a
details such as QoS and Multicast. pre-production environment. The
• Cisco ACI Planning and Design service includes a design session to
Workshop: The workshop is held in determine use cases, deployment
advance of deployment of Cisco’s in a pre-production environment,
Application Centric Infrastructure to implementation of use cases and
validate a customer’s design. knowledge transfer.
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• VMware NSX Network Virtualization
Accelerator Service: This service Manage
is suited for organizations that CDW can take responsibility for the
want to deploy a pre-production tasks associated with monitoring,
environment designed to meet upgrades, maintenance, reporting
their specific requirements. This and hardware and circuit incident
jumpstart-style engagement will management for products from Cisco,
consist of a design session(s), HP, F5, NetScaler and VMware. To best
deployment and two days of meet your organization’s needs, you
knowledge transfer. can choose from three tiers of support,
all powered by our redundant 24/7
• Data Center Network Deployment:
Enterprise Command Centers (ECC).
CDW’s engineers can install Nexus
switches to provide connectivity to
devices within your environment,
in addition to implementing the
logical design the customer desires,
resulting in network connectivity
across your racks of servers and
storage.
• Load-Balancer Services: We can
provide assessment, design and
implementation services for F5
and NetScaler application delivery
controllers.
• Configuration Services: Technology
products don’t come off the
assembly line ready to work for you.
They must be custom-configured
to meet your organization’s unique
needs and specifications. That’s
Next Steps not as easy as it sounds. It takes
time and expertise that your IT
An in-depth discussion team might not have. CDW has a
with CDW can provide you wealth of experience in satisfying
with more insight into the customers’ needs for Network
and Security Device Configuration,
importance of this work
Rack Configuration and Asset
and help determine how
Management Services.
much effort will be required.
Contact your CDW account
manager to speak with one
of our digital workspace
solution architects.
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Enterprise Networking
Solution Benefits • Wireless Surveys: CDW will survey
• Your organization can achieve the your wireless service area and
following by employing a CDW provide recommendations for access
Enterprise Networking solution: point placement to ensure service
level appropriate to your business
• Solutions that provide business needs. CDW can provide surveys for
outcomes and integrate those new deployments, redesigns and
solutions with your environment. validations.
• New levels of business integration • Public Venue Wireless Services:
with IT and business processes. Improve the fan experience! CDW has
• Improved user experience. experts to survey, design and deploy
wired and wireless network services
• Access to our extensive experience
Enterprise networks are an to large public venues or stadiums,
built on previous projects and
essential component to digitize and we’ve done some of the largest!
relationships with vendors.
your business. Whether your Vendors Supported
• Planning and Design Services: CDW
goals include connecting fans in will work with you to create a design
• Cisco and integration strategy for next-
stadiums, connecting mechanical
• Cisco Meraki generation network solutions such
sensors or connecting users, as Cisco SD-WAN and DNA-Center.
CDW can help provide the • Aruba
• Software-Defined Access Services:
solution to drive your desired • Cradlepoint
CDW provides both Software-
business outcomes. CDW can deliver additional Enterprise Defined Access and SD-WAN
Networking solutions by utilizing its services, which include solution
CDW has the experts to architect vast network of trusted third-party readiness to validate the solution
and deploy these complex partner services providers. meets your organization’s business
solutions and make them easily and technical objectives, planning
Services
consumable for your business. CDW’s Enterprise Networking services
and design services on how the
solution should be implemented,
fall into one of three lifecycle phases —
integrated and migrated, followed by
Design, Orchestrate and Manage.
implementation services to assist in
Design the roll out of the solution into your
Advisory/Assessment environment and managed services
to ensure the solution continues
• Network Health Checks and to provide optimal performance
Assessments: CDW will assess throughout the lifetime of the
your overall network infrastructure Software-Defined investment.
and report back detailed findings
and recommendations, including Orchestrate
a Network Inventory Report, L2/ Implementation/Adoption
L3 topology map, and configuration
• Deployment Services: CDW’s
details such as QoS and Multicast.
engineers can help you get the most
• Advisory Workshops: CDW will out of your network infrastructure
provide a workshop to validate by designing and deploying a solution
readiness for advanced solution tailored to fit your needs. Whether
deployment such as Cisco or it’s deploying emerging technologies
Meraki SD-WAN, DNA-Center, and such as SD-WAN or complex,
Software-Defined Access. multisite projects including wired and
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wireless, CDW has done it.
Manage
• Adoption Services: Get the most
out of your investment in advanced CDW can help your IT team ensure the
solution deployments. Our engineers solution provides optimal reliability,
will provide scheduled, post- availability and performance by
implementation sessions around taking responsibilities for tasks
defined metrics and technology goals associated with monitoring, upgrades,
such as additional IT staff knowledge maintenance and reporting for your
of the implemented solution and Cisco enterprise wired and wireless
enhancement recommendations. networking, Cisco Meraki and
Cradlepoint solutions.
• DNA Center with Assurance
QuickStart: The DNA Center with
Assurance QuickStart service is
a solution that stands up Cisco
DNA Center in your environment,
allowing your organization to see
immediate value from Assurance
and base automation. This service
includes a remote or onsite planning
session, boot-strapping and initial
configuration of DNA Center, creating
sites and importing customer maps,
adding customer devices, and
providing training to your staff on
Cisco DNA. Software Defined Access
is not included in this QuickStart.
• Configuration Services: Technology
products typically do not come
custom configured for a specific
Next Steps application. They require some type
of custom configuration to meet
your organization’s unique needs and
An in-depth discussion
specifications. This can be a complex
with CDW can provide you and/or repetitive process which
with more insight into the your IT may not have the expertise
importance of this work or resources available to administer.
and help determine how CDW has a wealth of experience and
much effort will be required. resources used to provide Access
Contact your CDW account Point Provisioning Services.
manager to speak with one
of our digital workspace
solution architects.
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Cloud
Solution Benefits the results. The results will help you
Your organization can achieve the understand the costs of moving your
following by employing a CDW Cloud on-premises workloads to Azure
solution: as well as expected performance.
The assessment tool will take
• Identity benefits: Identity and access
approximately two weeks to collect
management via Azure Active
data. The length of the assessment
Directory, including single sign-on
analysis will be based on the size/
to thousands of SaaS-based apps to
type of the environment to be
the cloud
assessed.
• Storage benefits: Reliable cloud
• Azure Governance — Security and
storage for data which allows you to
Cost Management: We will work
tier on-premises storage, provide
Even if your business is well with you to create a plan for Azure
robust backup and archival to the
along on its cloud journey, added cloud governance. This workshop
cloud
will help take an in-depth look at the
complexities of public and multi- • Computer benefits: Launch Windows people, processes and technology
cloud environments make careful Server and Linux virtual machines in currently in place and assist with
planning a must. CDW Amplified™ minutes and pay only for the capacity building a framework that will make
Infrastructure Services help you you need it easier for your IT team to support
design and augment your cloud • Site Recovery benefits: Set up your business needs while still providing
capabilities, build custom cloud disaster recovery plan without the the flexibility to use Microsoft Azure.
The workshop is typically three days
applications and bolster security upfront capital costs associated with
in duration for brand-new, greenfield
for your new platform. dedicated DR environments
Azure environments. For existing
• Dev/Test benefits: Quickly create Azure deployments, we recommend
Building the perfect cloud and centrally develop and test coupling this workshop with the
platform is a monumental task. environments on Azure Azure Design Assessment to give
We help you build your platform • Data Analytics Scenarios: Analyze you a complete view of your Azure
to your exact specifications, and visualize relational data without environment.
allowing for easier service and investing in costly hardware typically • Azure IaaS Foundation Jumpstart:
application integration while required for these scenarios We will work with you to validate
keeping your public and private • IoT benefits: Connect devices, other your existing Microsoft Azure IaaS
clouds scalable and secure. M2M assets and people to better infrastructure to document and
harness data across your business validate it is configured according
Managing an ever-evolving to best practices. The following
cloud environment — or multi- Services IaaS components will be reviewed:
CDW’s Cloud services fall into one Azure subscription(s), identity
cloud environments — requires of three lifecycle phases — Design, in Azure, resource group(s),
specialist skills. CDW can Orchestrate and Manage. storage accounts, networking and
help you manage your cloud connectivity, and virtual machine
Design
environment efficiently and Advisory/Assessment configuration. We will provide a
transparently. We help you findings and recommendations
control costs and monitor • Azure Migration Assessment: document and can also assist with
operations while providing CDW will work with you to deploy remediation if needed. The Azure
an assessment tool in your Design Review sessions will be based
ongoing technical assistance and on the complexity of the existing
environment, ensure the tool is
platform development support, configured properly, run the tool, Azure environment. The typical
so you can continue to innovate and then help interpret and review engagement will range from one to
in a cloud environment tailored to
your business.
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two weeks and will scale according to it can make your organization run
the complexity of the existing Azure more efficiently and on-time can
environment. The Azure Design be a difficult. CDW has the right
Assessment can be coupled with the people and experience to help set
Azure Governance Workshop. your organization on the right path
• Azure Advanced Identity and to adopting a DevOps framework.
Authentication Workshop: The Azure DevOps Assessment will
This workshop service offering provide an Azure DevOps Overview
formulates a complex identity and and Environment Assessment. We
authentication architecture for your will review your current development
organization after you’ve decided process and provide knowledge
to move to the cloud. The cloud transfer on DevOps best practices.
decision has an impact on how your We will provide recommendations
environment is set up and early on how to integrate your application
decisions are necessary, as the cloud development process into DevOps
identity will become the foundation and develop a roadmap for DevOps
for cloud transition efforts. This adoption. Some of the products and
engagement will help you understand tools covered for DevOps include:
complex environments and Visual Studio Team Services;
requirements and sort through all Continuous Integration/Continuous
the available services, products and Delivery (CI/CD); Azure Automation;
configuration options, resulting in the Platform as a Service; App Services;
development of a high-level cloud SQL Database Services; and
identity and access architecture Serverless, Functions, Service Fabric,
that meets your requirements. Logic Apps, Mobile Apps, and Event
Among the items typically discussed Hubs.
during the workshop are: Azure • Microsoft TFS to Azure DevOps:
Active Directory, Azure AD Connect, Azure DevOps provides numerous
Active Directory Federation improvements over Team Foundation
Services, Microsoft Identity Server in terms of features and
Next Steps Manager, Microsoft Exchange/O365, management. Your organization
Active Directory, Active Directory can benefit from having the latest
Lightweight Directory Services, functionality without having to
An in-depth discussion migration tools and user experience manage the infrastructure. Migrating
with CDW can provide you and client behaviors. from Team Foundation Server to
with more insight into the Azure DevOps requires careful
• Azure DevOps Assessment:
importance of this work DevOps is the integration of the planning to ensure a successful
and help determine how essential parts of IT, development, transition. CDW can help with all
much effort will be required. operations and security to deliver a phases of a TFS Migration, including
Contact your CDW account successful project. Bringing these assessment, planning, design and
manager to speak with one teams together into a standardized migration.
of our digital workspace process can accelerate the delivery • Azure App Modernization Workshop:
solution architects. of applications in a standardized Application modernization
and efficient manner. Embracing transforms your business into
DevOps is more than just the taking the most advantage of cloud
tools. It requires the right people services. Take your applications to
and processes to deliver success. the cloud to leverage the scalability,
Understanding DevOps and how reliability and performance of Azure.
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Modern applications and mobile • Migration for AWS: The Migration for building of an Azure subscription
devices reach more customers AWS will assist in prepping, building, environment. This project serves as
and cut costs. The Azure App testing and executing your migration an accelerated Jumpstart, which will
Modernization Workshop will guide to AWS. CDW deep dives into all the allow your organization to utilize your
you on identifying applications resources you plan on migrating, production, test and development
that are ideal candidates for including: Detailed Analysis; Security, environments. This service is best-
modernization and then deploy to Risk and Compliance; Application and suited for organizations that have
Azure App Services. Learn how to Hardware Dependencies; Migration yet to implement Azure and are
leverage Azure App Services to Wave Planning; and Operational looking for assistance in getting
modernize your infrastructure with Integration. CDW then migrates the started. It is not intended to be
best practices. identified resources and ensures a complete integration solution.
a successful transfer. This project This offering will result in the
• SQL Migration to Azure Workshop:
will also assist in providing best development of a clear vision of
Over the years, organizations have
practices, knowledge transfer, and the high-level solution goals and
deployed on-premises SQL Server
keeping your costs low, reducing constraints. We will determine the
for a wide variety of needs. Many
downtime and maximizing efficiency. appropriate network connectivity
of these deployments become
increasingly complex over time, often • VMware Cloud on AWS Design and configuration for the project
are business critical, and are typically Services: These engagements focus and define an authentication
resource intensive. Organizations on design of VMware’s hybrid-cloud mechanism for virtual machines in
are looking for options for their Software-Defined Data Center Azure. The servers implemented can
next-generation data requirements. (SDDC) solution, VMware Cloud include both supported Microsoft
Microsoft has created additional on AWS. This is a physical VMware Windows Servers and supported
options for those data requirements infrastructure that is located in Linux distributions. We will share
by utilizing Microsoft Azure. You now AWS data centers and managed our knowledge of industry-leading
have the option of using traditional by AWS/VMware. It is a true IaaS practices on the administration,
Microsoft SQL servers in Azure model, but using the same VMware operation and configuration of Azure,
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), infrastructure and management tools as well as identify business and
Azure SQL Database in Azure you already use in your on-premises technical requirements. Finally, we
Platform as a Service (PaaS), or data center. The VMware Cloud on will implement and pilot the solution
Microsoft’s new Azure SQL Database AWS Design Workshop focuses on in the production environment.
Managed Instance. During the SQL implementation design and use- • Azure DevOps Automation: DevOps
Migration to Azure Workshop, CDW case validation to help prepare for a is the combination of the right
will assist you reviewing your current successful VMware Cloud on AWS people, processes and tools to get
on-premises SQL infrastructure and deployment. the most from your IT organization.
plan a logical migration strategy to a Orchestrate Automation of many of your common
next-generation SQL infrastructure. Implementation/Adoption tasks is critical in implementing
• Hybrid Cloud Assessments: CDW DevOps practices to reduce effort
• Azure Migration for Windows and and costly errors. There are many
Consulting Services help reduce the Linux Servers: This engagement
complexity of your cloud journey. tools to get started in automating
will assist your organization with activities for on-premises and cloud.
We help create a strategy that fits the selection and implementation
your organization’s goals and meets CDW can help identify the processes
of virtual networking technology. that can be automated and show
your needs. Our consultants are We will help you learn the best
experienced in advising clients on you how to leverage the tools
approaches to deploying virtual available in Azure. This engagement
Workload Rationalization, Financial machines, including the associated
Modeling, Migration Planning, Cloud will provide an Azure DevOps
cloud services and storage accounts. Overview and current Environment
Readiness Workshops, Cloud Center During the engagement, we will
of Excellence, and DevOps, Data Assessment. CDW will review your
assist in planning, designing and current automation process and
Analytics and Business Intelligence.
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provide setup and configuration configure Azure AD Connect to sync needed appliances, and finishes with
of Azure Automation. We will identities from your on-premises a CDW engineer providing knowledge
offer recommendations on how to Active Directory to Azure Active transfer around the solution.
integrate Infrastructure as Code Directory, resulting in the single
• Azure Site Recovery for Disaster
into your environment and develop sign-on solution your end users
Recovery: Within your organization’s
a roadmap for DevOps Automation expect. If AD Federation Services is
Azure environment, we will install
adoption. Some of the products and chosen as part of the engagement,
and configure Azure Site Recovery,
tools covered for DevOps include: CDW will configure the AD FS Farm
establishing a Disaster Recovery as
Azure Automation; Desired State as necessary using SSL certificates
a Service solution that allows you
Configuration; Infrastructure as and will install and configure AD FS
to replicate your virtual machines to
Code; Source Control; PowerShell servers and proxy servers. We will
the Azure cloud and then bring them
Workflow and Scripting; Third-party configure and verify Federation
up in the event of a disaster. The
integration; and Development and and DNS configurations. CDW will
engagement begins with a planning
Operations Governance. then assist in enabling single sign-
and design workshop, which consists
on for up two applications and two
• Using Azure Storage for Backup: of a series of meetings that will focus
users as a pilot. All of this work is
CDW will assist your organization in on your current environment and
done remotely. Our engineers will
enabling Microsoft Azure Storage the identification of business and
typically run scripts or connect
as an offsite repository for backups. technical requirements. After we
to your environment manually to
A highly skilled CDW engineer will have mapped out the appropriate
discover the necessary information
interview various stakeholders plan, we will work with you to get
to complete the engagement. We
during the information-gathering the solution implemented. We will
will supplement that information by
stage of this remote service. We will configure the virtual networking
interviewing various stakeholders
create and configure recovery vaults. and the gateway in your Azure
within your organization.
If a blob storage account is required, environment, and then configure
we will create that, too. When the • Citrix on Azure: Delivering storage. Then we will replicate your
engagement is complete, an Azure applications and virtual desktops designated virtual machines to Azure
Storage environment designed to to your users is demanding on your storage, taking what you want from
your requirements will be stood up infrastructure and seems to never your on-premises environment
and operational in the cloud. This stop growing. Placing your Citrix and replicate it in the cloud. We will
engagement is limited in scope and environment on Azure allows for conduct failover testing to ensure
does not include configuration of scalability, growth and flexibility Azure Site Recovery is operating the
your storage device or the migration to adopt to business demands. way it was specifically designed for
of any data to Azure Storage. If The Citrix on Azure Pilot is to help your organization. The solution can
your environment demands a more accelerate a deployment of XenApp, include both supported Microsoft
complex solution, our Professional XenDesktop or Netscaler that is Windows Servers and supported
Services team can deliver it through hosted on Azure. Evaluate Azure for Linux distributions. When the
a custom statement of work. an application or desktop delivery engagement is complete, you will
project deployed on Azure. have a fully functioning and tested
• Enhancing Identity and Access with
Azure: Our highly skilled engineers • NetApp ONTAP Cloud for Azure Disaster Recovery Solution.
will assess your organization’s Jumpstart: CDW can assist with • Azure Stack – Proof of Concept:
readiness for connecting your Active planning and deploying a NetApp CDW will help accelerate a
Directory environment to the cloud, cloud-based storage solution deployment to a public, private or
remediating the more common or (ONTAP Cloud) that can be used hybrid cloud that is hosted on Azure
simple issues that currently exist. for both SnapMirror/SnapVault but on-site. Evaluate Azure Services
We will then download and install replication and for end-host for an application development
Azure Active Directory Connect connectivity via CIFS, NFS and iSCSI. project without investing in a full
using either Express Settings This service assists with the overall Azure Stack solution. The Azure
or Customized Settings. We will ONTAP cloud design, deployment of Stack Development Kit is a single
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server solution to evaluate the Azure. CDW can then assist • AppStream for AWS: The AppStream
features and services of Azure on- your organization in the testing, for AWS will assist in the design,
premise. remediation, validation and migration planning and build a single
of applications to Windows Server AppStream custom image for your
• Azure Monitor and Log Analytics:
2012/2016 or to Microsoft Azure. environment. This project will also
No matter if you are using the cloud
or have servers on-premises, • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 End-of- assist in providing best practices and
management and monitoring of Support Migration: As Microsoft has knowledge transfer in demonstrating
critical applications are imperative to been warning, SQL Server 2008 and best way to create images and build
ensure availability and performance. 2008 R2 will reach end-of-support your AWS infrastructure.
Azure Monitor and Log Analytics phase on July 9, 2019. Organizations • Rubrik Cloud Integration for
is the single dashboard with all the that are running SQL 2008 will need AWS: CDW Services will help you
information needed to show current to assess the impact, in terms of integrate your on-premises Rubrik
status, logging of security data, both the risks and benefits. The infrastructure to archive backup
backup and recovery, and automation risks are numerous. End of support data into the public cloud for offsite
of common steps. Azure Monitor means that Microsoft will no longer backup archiving. The service will
and Log Analytics contains these develop or release security patches help validate your public cloud
features to help manage any mix of or fixes. Additionally, you will no subscription is ready for integration,
on-premises or cloud environments: longer be able to call Microsoft then assist with configuring Rubrik
Log analytics, application monitoring, and get technical support. Should to use the cloud storage for backup
security and audit, capacity planning, you have a Microsoft SQL Server archival for the appropriate SLA
AD and SQL server assessment, 2008 server misbehaving, you will domains and backup jobs.
configuration changes, malware be on your own. The risks fall into
• NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for
assessment, and patch managment. two broad categories — regulatory
AWS: CDW can assist with planning
and downtime. Your unsupported
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and deploying a NetApp cloud-based
Microsoft SQL 2008 servers might
End-of-Support Services: As storage solution (ONTAP Cloud) that
not meet PCI, HIPPA, SOX or other
Microsoft has been warning, can be used for both SnapMirror/
regulatory audit requirements.
Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 SnapVault replication and for end-
This can create significant costs or
will reach end-of-support phase on host connectivity via CIFS, NFS
problems for your business. Even if
January 14, 2020. Organizations that and iSCSI. This service assists with
regulatory audits are not a concern,
are running Windows Server 2008 the overall ONTAP cloud design,
the downtime risks are. Now that
will need to assess the impact, in deployment of needed appliances,
Microsoft will no longer provide
terms of both the risks and benefits. and finishes with a CDW engineer
support, your organization could
Microsoft has announced that for providing knowledge transfer around
incur significant costs in the event of
Windows Server 2008 servers that the solution.
downtime.
are migrated to Microsoft Azure,
• Migration for AWS: The Migration for
they will provide extended support • Jumpstart for AWS: The Jumpstart
AWS will assist in prepping, building,
for an additional three years. The for AWS will assist in the design,
testing and executing your migration
Windows Server 2008 End-of- planning and build of an AWS
to AWS. CDW deep dives into all the
Support engagement helps you environment. This project will be an
resources you plan on migrating,
gain a clear understanding of how to accelerated Jumpstart, which will
including: Detailed Analysis; Security,
manage application incompatibilities allow you to utilize your production,
Risk and Compliance; Application and
that could arise from an upgrade test or development environment.
Hardware Dependencies; Migration
from Windows Server 2008 or It will also assist in providing best
Wave Planning; and Operational
2008 R2 and provides a roadmap practices and knowledge transfer
Integration. CDW then migrates the
for remediation of application in demonstrating the best way to
identified resources and ensures
compatibility issues in preparation maximize the benefits of utilizing
a successful transfer. This project
for migration to Windows Server AWS.
will also assist in providing best
2012/2016 or to Microsoft
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practices, knowledge transfer, and archive backup data into the public
keeping your costs low, reducing cloud for offsite backup archiving.
downtime and maximizing efficiency. The service will validate your
public cloud subscription is ready
• CDW Classroom in the Cloud
for integration, then assist with
on AWS: The CDW Classroom
configuring Veeam to use the cloud
in the Cloud on AWS will assist
storage for backup archival for the
you with the planning, designing,
appropriate SLA domains and backup
and implementing of an AWS
jobs.
infrastructure to migration your
on-premise classroom application(s)
Manage
to AWS. The service includes an
introduction to identity and access • Managed Services for Azure: The
management, core compute cloud can boost productivity of
services, virtual networking, your IT department, allowing it to
connectivity options, and provides spend less time on daily IT tasks and
best practices and knowledge more time dedicated to strategic
transfer of the implementations. deliverables. CDW can enhance this
• VMware Cloud on AWS effect by taking on the responsibility
Implementation Services: These for tasks associated with
engagements focus on design and monitoring, upgrades, maintenance,
implementation of VMware’s hybrid- configuration and reporting for
cloud Software-Defined Data Center your Azure environment; managed
(SDDC) solution, VMware Cloud by our 24/7 Enterprise Command
on AWS. This is a physical VMware Center (ECC). Plus, through the
infrastructure that is located in Azure Cloud Service Provider (CSP)
AWS data centers and managed program, you may take advantage
by AWS/VMware. It is a true IaaS of both managed services and the
model, but using the same VMware pay-as-you-use model on one
infrastructure and management tools invoice for storage, application and
you already use in your on-premises infrastructure scalability, compute
data center. The VMware Cloud on power and other cloud services.
AWS Implementation service focuses • Managed Services for AWS:
on taking the design variables and CDW’s AWS-certified architects,
implementing the SDDC, establishing consultants and engineers provide
connectivity and integration with the day-to-day management so you
your on-premises data center, and can focus on business performance,
running through pilot operation and not technology management. Our
migration tasks to ensure a smooth cloud experts work closely with you
transition to VMware Cloud on AWS. to guide your organization to an end-
We also offer Proof of Concept to-end cloud management strategy
services for validated accounts, that brings clarity to cloud.
allowing a test drive of VMware Cloud
on AWS before production use.
• Veeam Cloud Tiering for AWS: The
Veeam Cloud Tiering for AWS service
will help you integrate your on-
premises Veeam infrastructure to
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Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Solution Benefits • Planning and Design Services:
Your organization can achieve the CDW will recommend prevalidated
following by employing a CDW reference architectures that utilize
Hyperconverged Infrastructure converged appliances such as
solution: NetApp FlexPod, NetApp HCI, Dell
EMC Vblock, Cisco HyperFlex and
• Tightly integrate your servers,
HyperFlex Edge, Dell EMC VxRail,
storage, networking and software
Nutanix and Cisco/Pure Storage
components.
FlashStack.
• Reduce administration costs by Orchestrate
minimizing capital expenses and Implementation/Adoption
improving operational efficiencies.
• Simplify management with a single • Deployment Services: When
It’s not hard for traditional
platform. it comes time to implement
data centers to sprawl into a technologies like NetApp FlexPod,
disjointed hoard of equipment. • Improve application performance and NetApp HCI, Dell EMC Vblock, Cisco
On top of high-maintenance, availability by improving allocation of HyperFlex and HyperFlex Edge, Dell
resources.
outdated technologies, a growing EMC VxRail, Nutanix and Cisco/
hodgepodge of nonuniform • Streamline support models and Pure Storage FlashStack, CDW’s
offer scalability to meet changing engineers can help you get them up
systems can hinder performance
demands. and running in your environment
and growth within your and assist with data migration. Our
organization. engineers will also teach your IT
Vendors Supported professionals how to get the most
That’s why no data center remodel • Cisco out of the new technology.
is complete without converged • NetApp
infrastructure — which combines • Dell EMC Manage
servers, data storage, networking • Nutanix
• VMware We offer hosted private clouds that run
equipment and software into a on managed Cisco HyperFlex, Nutanix
single unified computing system. • Pure Storage
and VMware vSAN infrastructures
Our solutions will keep your CDW can deliver additional Data Center and are hosted in your data center, one
organization prepared for growth solutions by utilizing its vast network of of our own data centers or in a third-
third-party partner services providers. party data center. To best meet your
at a moment’s notice.
organization’s needs, you can choose
Next Steps Services from three tiers of support, all powered
CDW’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure by our redundant 24/7 Enterprise
services fall into one of three lifecycle Command Centers (ECC).
An in-depth discussion
with CDW can provide you phases — Design, Orchestrate and
Manage.
with more insight into the
importance of this work Design
and help determine how Advisory/Assessment
much effort will be required.
• Data Center Assessment: CDW will
Contact your CDW account assess your overall infrastructure
manager to speak with one and report back its detailed findings
of our digital workspace and recommendations.
solution architects.
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Software-Defined Data Center — Virtualization, Storage and Compute
Solution Benefits Services
Your organization can achieve the CDW’s Software-Defined Data Center
following by employing a CDW Software- services fall into one of three lifecycle
Defined Data Center solution: phases — Design, Orchestrate and
• Provision computing, storage and Manage.
networking resources quickly from a Design
central interface, eliminating the need
Advisory/Assessment
to work with siloed storage network
device interfaces and hardware.
• Infrastructure Health Check: CDW will
• Allocate your resources from a single work with your organization to perform
point of control with a centralized an environment collection and review
monitoring and management center. workshop that includes an overall
• Eliminate having to work with multiple health assessment of the environment,
A software-defined data center including networking, storage and
vendor-specific configuration
combines and simultaneously interfaces. compute.
manages traditionally siloed server, • Data Center Assessment: CDW will
• With all network hardware responsive
storage and network virtualization, to a central authority, pooled network assess your overall infrastructure
making IT’s job a lot simpler. In resources can be automatically applied and report back its detailed findings
addition, with SDDC, you can to relieve bottlenecks and ensure and recommendations.
deliver and provision resources application responsiveness.
• Virtualization Infrastructure Health
automatically within a framework • The streamlined, centralized network Check: We will provide analysis and
of defined roles, policies and SLAs. management of SDDC helps clear recommendations based on the
More flexibility and efficiency can pileups quickly and effectively — even as performance and efficiency of your
you face increased network traffic. enterprise’s existing VMware vSphere
transform the way you deliver
• Guarantee compliance with security environment.
IT.Building the perfect cloud
policies with policy-based management. • Virtualization Assessments: CDW
platform is a monumental task.
• Eliminate errors that come with offers assessments that are not just
We help you build your platform to template reports with generic data. We
repetitive manual processes.
your exact specifications, allowing provide you with customized, detailed
for easier service and application • Monitor resources more efficiently reports featuring specific virtualization
with a unified system that eliminates recommendations based on your unique
integration while keeping your the piecemeal monitoring of resources
public and private clouds scalable environment.
across operative silos and vendor
and secure. products. • Virtualization Planning and Design
Workshops: Our experts will learn
• SDDC makes transitioning to the cloud
Managing an ever-evolving what your organization is trying to
simpler by extending your infrastructure achieve and then design the appropriate
cloud environment — or multi- and applications to the right technology.
cloud environments — requires infrastructure.
specialist skills. CDW can help you Vendors • VMware Cloud on AWS Design
• VMware Services: These engagements focus
manage your cloud environment
• Cisco on the design of VMware’s hybrid-
efficiently and transparently. We
help you control costs and monitor • Dell EMC cloud Software-Defined Data Center
• Microsoft (SDDC) solution, VMware Cloud
operations while providing ongoing
• Nutanix on AWS. This is a physical VMware
technical assistance and platform
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise infrastructure that is located in
development support, so you can AWS data centers and managed
continue to innovate in a cloud • NetApp
by AWS/VMware. It is a true IaaS
environment tailored to your CDW can deliver additional Data Center model, but using the same VMware
business. solutions by utilizing its vast network of infrastructure and management tools
third-party partner services providers. you already use in your on-premises
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data center. The VMware Cloud on with an in-depth document providing
AWS Design Workshop focuses on details of the assessment along with
implementation design and use- recommended changes.
case validation to help prepare for a • IT Automation and Orchestration
successful VMware Cloud on AWS Assessment: During this
deployment. engagement, CDW will interview
• Cisco ACI Planning and Design members of your organization’s
Workshop: The workshop is held in business units to learn how they
advance of deployment of Cisco’s currently automate. We will produce
Application Centric Infrastructure to a business-process diagram of your
validate a customer’s design. current state, as well as a diagram
depicting a recommended business
• VMware NSX Design and Planning
process. We produce a report giving
Workshop: VMware NSX is the
recommendations around the
gold standard for Software
following:
Defined Networking (SDN) within
VMware vSphere environments. • Global recommendations:
Its key features include Network How to run unified.
Virtualization (L2/L3 routing and • Workflow is broken down
forwarding within the Hypervfisor), into Agile User stories along
Micro-Segmentation (firewalls with toolset recommendations.
between servers) and Network
Function Virtualization (virtualized • An executive summary with
firewalls, routers, load-balancers high-level findings and then
and VPN running on NSX edge). This answer questions.
design and planning sessions is led by • Engagement is sized based on the
a CDW NSX implementation engineer number of business units being
to determine your organization’s NSX evaluated.
requirements, use cases and design Orchestrate
strategy. We will work with you on Implementation/Adoption
NSX feature and design decisions
• Virtualization Implementation Services:
Next Steps while developing a high-level design
CDW’s Jumpstart engagements
document.
are designed to quickly get your
An in-depth discussion • Converged/Hyperconverged environment up and running.
with CDW can provide you Infrastructure Planning and Design A typical engagement, performed at
Services: CDW will recommend your site, includes implementation
with more insight into the services for solution components.
prevalidated reference architectures
importance of this work A key benefit with a Jumpstart is the
that utilize converged appliances
and help determine how such as NetApp FlexPod, NetApp HCI, knowledge transfer of best practices
much effort will be required. from CDW’s experts to your IT team.
Dell EMC Vblock, Cisco HyperFlex,
Contact your CDW account Our implementation offerings are
Dell EMC VxRail, Nutanix and Cisco/ available for vSphere, vRealize
manager to speak with one Pure Storage FlashStack. Automation, vRealize Operations/Log
of our digital workspace • Cisco UCS Health Check: A low-cost Insight, VMware Site Recovery Manager
solution architects. way to quickly evaluate the state of and NSX.
your current Cisco Unified Computing • VMware Cloud on AWS
System (UCS) environment and plan Implementation Services: These
for an upgrade. You will be provided engagements focus on the
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implementation of VMware’s hybrid- deployment and two days of to reduce costs of managing IT by
cloud Software-Defined Data Center knowledge transfer. optimizing the provisioning process
(SDDC) solution, VMware Cloud through a self-service portal to
• Converged/Hyperconverged
on AWS. This is a physical VMware provide infrastructure services.
Infrastructure Deployment Services:
infrastructure that is located in • VMware vRealize Automation
When it comes time to implement
AWS data centers and managed 7 Enterprise: This engagement
technologies like NetApp FlexPod,
by AWS/VMware. It is a true IaaS delivers everything involved
NetApp HCI, Dell EMC Vblock,
model, but using the same VMware in the Accelerator service in a
Cisco HyperFlex, Dell EMC VxRail,
infrastructure and management tools highly available design. It includes
Nutanix and Cisco/Pure Storage
you already use in your on-premises production-ready enterprise
FlashStack, CDW’s engineers can
data center. The VMware Cloud on architecture; additional knowledge
help you get them up and running in
AWS Implementation service focuses transfer on advanced topics of
your environment and assist with
on taking the design variables and lifecycle management, application
data migration. Our engineers will
implementing the SDDC, establishing deployment (license dependent),
also teach your IT professionals
connectivity and integration with approval processes and custom
how to get the most out of the new
your on-premises data center, and properties; and installation of
technology.
running through pilot operation and vRealize Business Standard (license
migration tasks to ensure a smooth • UCS QuickStart: The UCS QuickStart
is a hands-on engagement, dependent).
transition to VMware Cloud on AWS.
We also offer Proof of Concept optimized for custom interaction • UCS Director Jumpstart: CDW’s
services for validated accounts, and knowledge transfer. If your three-week Jumpstart engagement
allowing a test drive of VMware Cloud organization needs to gain is designed to quickly get your
on AWS before production use. experience operating UCS, CDW will environment up and running.
get your enterprise up and running. It involves meeting with you,
• Cisco ACI Jumpstart: This This service includes professional confirming your use cases, helping
engagement deploys ACI, getting it configuration of the UCS platform, to lay down a deployment schedule,
up and running in your environment plus hands-on training. working toward agreed upon targets
along with moving some applications and culminates in a supported
to the new platform. • UCS Central Deployment: Cisco’s
centralized management platform launch. During this process you can
• NSX Proof of Concept with Micro- is capable of managing multiple work alongside our orchestration
Segmentation: This engagement is UCS domains. CDW can plan and engineers to familiarize yourself with
suited for customers who want to implement its deployment, allowing the product.
test functionality of VMware NSX you to manage nearly your entire • Microsoft Private or Hybrid Cloud
micro-segmentation features in a UCS environment from a single pane Jumpstarts: This engagement will
pre-production environment. The of glass. assist you with the planning, design and
service includes a design session to evaluation of Windows Server, System
• VMware vRealize Automation 7 Center and Hyper-V. CDW will create a
determine use cases, deployment
Accelerator: This engagement deployment roadmap for your private
in a pre-production environment,
expands the power of virtualization, or hybrid cloud solution, which also
implementation of use cases and
moving IT services away from includes installation and configuration of
knowledge transfer.
existing infrastructure delivery Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine
• NSX Network Virtualization methods to where virtual machine Manager, App Controller and Operations
Accelerator Service: This service infrastructure is delivered as a Manager. We will deploy virtual
is suited for organizations that service. This service provides machines to the private or hybrid cloud
want to deploy a pre-production either on premises or Azure. CDW will
rapid deployment of standard,
provide knowledge transfer of reporting,
environment designed to meet non-customized virtual machine security roles and end-user self-service
their specific requirements. This infrastructure services for use in portal, and will create standard OS image
jumpstart-style engagement will pre-production environments. You for deployment with Virtual Machine
consist of a design session(s), will receive an introduction on how Manager to Hyper-V.
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• Cisco CloudCenter Suite Jumpstart:
This engagement is used to take your
organization’s existing application
and make it so you can leverage
CloudCenter to deploy it in VMware,
AWS or Azure. We will show you
how to deploy an application with
governance and be multi-cloud-
ready without lock-in. This six-week,
fixed-fee service builds in time to
allow for dealing with application
complexities.
Manage
CDW can take responsibility for the
tasks associated with monitoring,
upgrades, maintenance, reporting
and hardware incident management
for your UCS server platform or your
VMware, Microsoft, IBM and Nutanix
environments. To best meet your
organization’s needs, you can choose
from three tiers of support, all powered
by our redundant 24/7 Enterprise
Command Centers (ECC).
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Next-Gen Backup
Solution Benefits Impact Analysis, Disaster Recovery,
Your organization can achieve the Recovery Time Objective (RTO)/
following by employing a CDW Next- Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Gen Backup solution: Analysis and Workflow Analysis.
• Prepare for unanticipated data loss • Veeam Health Check: CDW Veeam
with offsite backups. Availability services encompass
solutions around the Veeam
• Automate and streamline time-
Availability Suite. The suite contains
consuming backup processes with
the Veeam Backup and Replication,
centralized data management that
and VeeamONE products. The
enables remote management of your
Veeam Health Check assesses
data landscape.
an organization’s current Veeam
If hit with an emergency outage, • Accelerate data recovery by infrastructure, and provides
minimizing redundant data. reporting and recommendations on
your data center needs a backup
the status and fitness of the solution.
solution that is flexible enough • Strengthen disaster recovery by
to sway through the quake — not hosting backups on multiple servers • Dell EMC Avamar Design: CDW can
across data centers. plan and design your entire backup
crack and crumble.
solution, setting you up for success
But with the wide adoption of Vendors Supported from the start.
virtualization, the proliferation of • Dell EMC • Data Domain Design: CDW can plan
mobility and BYOD, and the ever- • Microsoft and design your entire Data Domain
growing avalanches of storage • IBM solution, setting you up for success
• Rubrik from the start.
data, efficient backups are more
• NetApp Orchestrate
challenging than ever. • Commvault Implementation/Adoption
CDW’s solution architects will • Veritas NetBackup
• Veeam • Veeam Jumpstart: CDW Veeam
survey your data landscape
CDW can deliver additional Data Center Availability service offerings
and construct a custom backup
solutions by utilizing its vast network of encompass solutions around
solution for your data center the Veeam Availability Suite. The
third-party partner services providers.
using the latest tools. suite contains the Veeam Backup
and Replication, and VeeamONE
Services
products. The Jumpstart service
CDW’s Next-Gen Backup services fall
provides design, installation and
into one of three lifecycle phases —
configuration services for Veeam
Design, Orchestrate and Manage.
Availability.
Design
Advisory/Assessment • Dell EMC Avamar Installation: Our
engineers will configure and set up
• DR/Business Continuity Services: the hardware and deploy the host
CDW Consulting Services help reduce agents. Upon completion, your
the complexity of your Next-Gen backup solution will be operational
Backup needs. We help you create a and protecting the assets that are so
strategy that fits your organization’s vital to your organization.
goals and meets your needs. CDW
consultants have vast experience • Data Domain Installation: CDW can
in helping clients with Business set up the Data Domain hardware at
Continuity Planning, Business your location. If you are planning to
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