Check out the stories and videos below for greater insight into how a well-planned IT upgrade can benefit small businesses.

Little Mittens - Appleton, WI
"Our current IT resources are the parents who are in the IT world as well as some outside consultants—web designers." Tim Metten, Vice President, Little Mittens

In business for over 14 years, Little Mittens is a child care and youth center for nearly 160 children. Growing in leaps and bounds, Little Mittens is looking at developing a user lab for their youth center, adding physical security by Axis to their location and overhauling their office systems so they can process automatically. Doing so would free up more time to focus on the children, not payment processing and attendance keeping. CDW, in partnership with HP, Intel and Microsoft, has offered a solution to help Little Mittens on all accounts.


Springhill Music - Brentwood, TN
"To fully expand into the digital media age, we are going to require solid and reliable IT resources to draw upon, which would include the necessary equipment to get us from 1990's technolgy to the year 2008." Mark Nelson, IT Manager / Systems Administrator



The largest challenges that Springhill music faces are the constant shuffling of applications to run on outdated desktops, and a lack in a solid firewall. Add to this a shift in their focus to more digital media creation, and storage has quickly become a problem as well. As the company continues to grow they now, more than ever, require solid and reliable IT resources. CDW will be updating their office with the latest in HP desktops, running Microsoft Office 2007, along with a new server with the latest in Intel VPro technology, an HP storage system, a new rack, new security appliances, software and services.

Cain, Hibbard, Myers and Cook PC - Pittsfield, MA
"I am the IT department with no on-site help. When things don't run well, I get no time off!" Pat Sokolowski, Network Administrator, Cain Hibbard Myers & Cook PC

This law firm comprised of 20 attorneys and 30 staff members houses 12 servers up to 9 years old that are running Novell Netware 5, W2K and W2003. Server virtualization is a must for this finalist, as each SQL application takes over a new server. CDW will be preparing a server consolidation and virtualization plan for them, along with a document management solution to help streamline their everyday processes. Cain, Hibbard, Myers and Cook PC are currently supported by CDW’s new legal sales team.