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Hosting Services

What Are Hosting Services?

Hosting Services leverage CDW’s Enterprise Data Centers for your infrastructure, storage, network, and disaster recovery needs. Our Enterprise Hosting Centers have extensive physical and network security, dedicated connectivity, and world-class monitoring and support. We provide multiple data networking services to help you connect into and out of the CDW Enterprise Hosting Centers. From Internet to WAN, firewalls to VPN access, CDW provides extensive connectivity options.

We continue to grow in size as the number of organizations we manage continues to grow. Our hosting center space has increased 900% since our first data center was built in 1999. We maintain:

  • Five Data Centers
    • Madison, Wisconsin (2 locations): 8,500 sq. ft. and 55,000 sq. ft.
    • Minneapolis, Minnesota: 16,000 sq. ft.
    • Chicago, Illinois
    • Dallas, Texas
  • Two Midwest Network Operations Centers
    • Madison, Wisconsin
    • Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • 150 Engineers and Project Managers

How Will Hosting Services Benefit My Organization?

CDW’s Hosting Services help to reduce capital expenses while ensuring quality, flexibility, and security for your hosted IT solutions.

Our experienced and certified engineers design a highly stable and fault-tolerant data center while handling the daily maintenance of the IT infrastructure.

What Comprises Hosting Services?

Cabinet Space

We offer hosting space in full cabinet increments in each of our Enterprise Data Centers, based on available space.

Network Connectivity Options

All hosting customers are connected to our core network through redundant network connections. We maintain redundant, load‑balanced connectivity to multiple Tier 1 Internet providers. Each of our Enterprise Hosting Centers has at least 1 Gbps of Internet connectivity.

Our Virtualized Network Environment has an advanced, multi‑tenant environment that provides multiple layers of network services, with the security of a dedicated infrastructure.

Data Storage

Our hosted storage solution offers on‑demand storage capacity and management services designed to quickly enable new or growing applications and data. We use the latest technology with Fibre Channel connections to our Storage Area Network. We eliminate underutilized storage investments. See also: Storage Management & Virtualization

Data Backup

Our hosting customers are able to connect to our backup service via our core network. The customer will have complete control of their backup sets and backup retention periods. One copy of the backup data is kept onsite for immediate retrieval and one copy is duplicated offsite daily for disaster recovery protection.

Disaster Recovery

We design, implement, host, and maintain high‑availability disaster recovery solutions. Our Enterprise Hosting Centers are designed to be fault‑tolerant at all key points of the infrastructure.

Hosted Enterprise Infrastructure

Hosted Enterprise Infrastructure (HEI) services are true, on‑demand solutions. We offer scalable economics for operating your IT infrastructure—relieving you of the worry about wasted capital and underutilized hardware and software. We also provide high‑performance, fault‑tolerant network and systems infrastructure for your critical systems and applications.

Getting Started with Hosting Services

Your CDW Account Manager and certified specialists are ready to assist you with every phase of choosing and leveraging the right solution for your IT environment. Our approach includes:

  • An initial discovery session to understand your goals, requirements, and budget
  • An assessment review of your existing environment and definition of project requirements
  • Detailed vendor evaluations, recommendations, future design and proof of concept
  • Procurement, configuration, and deployment of the final solution
  • Ongoing product lifecycle support

Allied Solutions

Allied Solutions moves their IP telephony system to a CDW data center.

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CooperVision

Learn about how a migration to a Cisco unified call center, along with professional management services, takes customer contact to the next level at CooperVision.

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Financial Services Industry

Get an in-depth look at CDW managed security services for Cisco firewall and intrusion prevention.

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Home Services Industry

Learn about the benefits of CDW’s Managed Services for Cisco Unified Communications and Customer Contact.

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Lakeview Medical Center

See how we used VMware to consolidate servers and provide a more efficient environment.

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Medical Device Supplier

CDW was there to implement availability management of client’s WAN and LAN infrastructure in three locations.

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Managed Services Partnerships and Certifications

CDW is recognized as an award‑winning national IT services and solutions provider. Our strong partnerships with the industry’s top technology manufacturers ensure that we have the knowledge and expertise to meet your toughest organizational challenges.

We utilize a modular approach to system management. This allows our customers to select the services that best support your current capabilities and scales to meet future goals.

ITIL

Our Managed Services offerings are built around ITIL best practices. Our governance training, a requirement for all Managed Services staff members, is based on the ITIL approach to IT service management. We have more than 20 ITIL‑certified employees, including the ITIL Foundation Certification, and the top ITIL certification, the Manager’s Certificate in IT Service Management.

SAS 70

Our Managed Services practice completes a yearly Statement of Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) Type II audit. This demonstrates how we establish effective control objectives and control activities. The clean (unqualified) opinion expressed in this audit provides confirmation of the strength of our quality control activities and processes in relation to our hosting environment and managed services.

PCI Compliance

We have received a clean Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Report on Compliance, which indicates compliance with the PCI DSS standard. This validates our ability to provide PCI services to organizations that store, process, and transmit credit card information. See also: PCI Compliance Data Sheet

  • Cisco—Gold Certified Partner
  • Cisco—Master Managed Services
  • Cisco—Over 6200 certifications and accreditations
  • Cisco—Powered Managed Contact Center
  • Cisco—Powered Managed Data Center
  • Cisco—Powered Managed Mobile Communications
  • Cisco—Powered Managed Unified Communications
  • Cisco—Powered Managed Security
  • Cisco—Small Business Specialization

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