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CDW Technology Solutions Resource Center

CDW's business model focuses on small- and medium-sized businesses with 97 percent of sales derived from commercial accounts. CDW has built strong relationships within the technology sector and we are a leading direct source for Cisco, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, Toshiba, and other top name brands. Our success is due to our exceptional coworkers, who are the most important element of CDW's business strategy. To foster our coworkers' success, CDW has designed a rewarding and challenging work place, recognized as one of the best companies to work for in America.

CDW Technology Solutions Resource Center

  • Step Up Your Strategy – Fine-Tune Use of Storage Availability Processes as a Part of a Business-Continuity Plan

    White Paper -- Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) should be major components of any risk-management strategy. After all, no business wants to be caught unprepared for unforeseen events such as floods, fires, terrorist attacks, power outages or other disturbances. That's why planning and regularly testing BC and DR programs is essential.

  • Disaster Got You Down?

    White Paper -- The risks attached to not having a BC or DR plan are neither small nor cheap. Every good plan employs certain technologies and methodologies to limit the disruptiveness of an outage. CDW offers storage, power and networking specialists to assist with disaster recovery needs.

  • Reality Check – A Smart Business Continuity Strategy Can Offer Maximum Results at Minimum Cost

    White Paper -- In an increasingly digital world, it's clear that business continuity is no longer an option. Keeping systems running 24x7 and ensuring that data reaches its intended destination — precisely when it's needed — is the heart and soul of a business. This paper discusses Business-Continuity (BC) initiatives on a tight budget and with limited resources.

  • Storage Solutions Ensure Better Business Continuity

    Technical Article -- Even if you have a disaster recovery plan in place already, you may wonder if it is good enough to keep your business running without any downtime. This paper walks through the steps every organization needs to take to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster.

  • Continuous Data Protection - Your Safety Net in a Disaster

    White Paper -- When you resume business after a disruption, you want to pick up where you left off. That means minutes, or even seconds, before the lights went out or the computer virus struck. If your business is aiming for zero data loss and zero downtime, there's only one choice - continuous data protection (CDP).

  • Disaster Plan - New Technologies Put Fresh Wrinkles in Business-Continuity / Disaster-Recovery Planning

    White Paper -- Business continuity/disaster recovery requires a holistic approach that includes storage, infrastructure, servers, applications, middleware and the network. If that weren't complicated enough, today's new technologies are testing traditional methods of backup and data protection. It's time to take another look at your BC/DR plan.

  • Disaster Recovery: Plan for the Worst, Expect the Best

    White Paper -- These days, it is rare to find a company without a disaster recovery plan - a fact due in large part to a rash of high-profile disasters in recent years. The risks are too great to ignore. But many companies are still not doing enough to protect their businesses. This paper provides tips for how to protect your business.

  • High Availability Lowdown

    Case Study -- The Barkley ad firm implements consolidation, virtualization and replication to strengthen business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning. With the goal of getting to 100 percent availability, the firm uses HP's blade hardware, VMware's virtualization software and a variety of existing storage platforms.

  • Preparing to Stay in Business - Storage Continuity Critical in 24-Hour World

    White Paper -- You probably think it couldn't happen to you, but disastrous events occur more often than not. Perhaps not a hurricane or earthquake or malicious attack, but there are potential risks for every business. Developing a solid data-recovery plan can keep your business up and running in the event of a disaster or other unfortunate event.