Research Hub > Empower your Data Center Transformation with the CDW Approach
Article
3 min

Empower your Data Center Transformation with the CDW Approach

Learn how CDW’s DCaaS solutions revolutionize data center transformation, enhancing an organization’s ability to scale, become more agile, and reduce costs for future business success.

To set your organization up for success, you need to be confident in your ability to scale. And as your business grows, one critical component of that ability to scale is your data center infrastructure. Without a properly managed data center, your organization could suffer from reduced efficiency, inaccurate analytics, data integration issues, increased costs and too much bandwidth for your IT staff to handle.

These hurdles are why Data Center as a Service (DCaaS) solutions have become so prevalent in the past few years. Through DCaaS, organizations can now leverage the benefits of cloud computing to reduce cost and operational complexities, all while maintaining the control over the technology, location and security that traditional data centers have to offer.

If your organization is in need of a DCaaS solution, you’ll need the right provider. At CDW, we understand that every organization is at a different stage in their technology journey. After understanding your unique challenges, we can help you to implement a solution that works best for your organization.

The CDW Difference

With their breadth and depth of experience and partner relationships, our DCaaS experts can work with your organization to co-design a comprehensive solution that suits your business needs which will ultimately increase your organization’s agility, resiliency and scalability.

This is made possible because of CDW’s full-stack, full lifecycle approach. Here’s how it works:

  1. Listen – Our DCaaS experts will listen to your challenges. We can work to create a DCaaS solution that helps you to eliminate staffing constraints, meet regulatory and legal requirements, lower costs, and offer more reliability and availability for your organization.
  2. Advise – Our DCaaS experts have the broadest and deepest skillsets in the market. With their expertise, they can help you to design for resiliency and to understand any challenges associated with the implementation process.
  3. Design –  Our DCaaS experts can assess and help you to co-design a solution that works for you. We have several free proprietary assessments that provide you with a comprehensive plan for the next steps of your technology journey.
  4. Orchestrate – Our DCaaS experts will help you to implement your plan. Utilizing our best-in-class partner portfolio, we can even shift from a fully integrated solution to something more flexible for your organization, with the financing options to support your data center transformation.
  5. Manage – Our DCaaS experts can help you to operate the solution and support any future initiatives that will support your data center transformation.

Start Your Technology Journey with CDW

Our full-stack, full lifecycle approach means that CDW meets you where you’re at. We know that when it comes to implementing DCaaS solutions, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. Your DCaaS solution needs to be future-focused, so that when your organization grows, your data center transformation remains seamlessly scalable, even with colocation or multi-cloud in the picture.


PureStorage

Radically Simple Data Storage Engineered to be easy, intuitive, and sustainable.

netapp

Lead the way to a cloud-connected all-flash data center. More choice, no compromise with NetApp® flash solutions. 

Urban  Haas

Urban Haas

Field CIO
Urban Haas is passionate about successfully enabling business/digital transformation for customers and mapping technology to deliver real outcomes. A field CIO for CDW, Urban is known for pushing the envelope while controlling risk, working with cutting edge and emerging technologies, and always takes a step back to see the bigger picture.
Derek  Hay

Derek Hay

Field CIO
Derek Hay is a field CIO with CDW who has more than 25 years of experience across a diverse set of infrastructure, operations, and security disciplines. At CDW, he helps customers realize their desired business outcomes through sound technology strategies, solutions, and services.