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Cloud Computing

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What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is a combination of software and computing delivered on demand, as a service. It promises to increase your organizational agility through rapid deployment and scalability, improve cost structure by turning capital expenses into predictable operational expenses, and increase productivity and collaboration due to its ease of management and highly accessible data and applications.

Browse our public cloud service models:

Software as a
Service

Software as a Service

Get to know how utilizing highly mobile SaaS applications will increase collaboration and productivity for your organization.
Infrastructure as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service

Learn how you’ll reap increased organizational agility through the rapid scalability of IaaS solutions.
Platform as a
Service

Platform as a Service

Our PaaS solutions include the underlying infrastructure and all the development tools your organization needs for cloud applications.

While the benefits of cloud computing can be tremendous, there are real considerations that must be made regarding security, reliability, and accessability. Trust is important in a cloud solution. For that reason, CDW only partners with the most proven, reliable, and secure cloud providers in the industry.

Our dedicated Cloud Specialists guide our customers through the entire evaluation and implementation process to determine the optimal deployment options, including on-premise, cloud-based, or some combination of both.

How Will Cloud Computing Benefit My Organization?

A cloud computing solution can help your organization achieve multiple benefits, including:

Faster time to market due to on demand deployment and scalability
Cost Structuring: Highly predictable operational expenses and IT resources matched to your actual needs compared with implimenting and managing excess infrastructure to meet peak demands
Increased productivity due to ease of IT management and improved application and data accessibility for your users

What Should I Consider Before Embracing the Cloud?

What IT resources are required for your employees to remain effective and efficient?
How quickly is your organization currently able to provision and scale those identified IT resources—whether software, platforms, or infrastructure?
What is the total cost to your organization of provisioning and maintaining IT resources?
Which IT resources could be pooled for greater efficiency and cost savings?
What deployment model would provide the best fit for your organization’s specific needs?
Do you understand the variability in your organization’s utilization of IT resources?
Do you understand the security considerations, including regulations, for your organization’s data, independent of where the data lives and how it is accessed?

Getting Started with Cloud Computing

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 project measurements to meet SLAs

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