CDW Case Study Sample

“We’re at the point now that if our primary file server (where the majority of our files are stored) were to go down for a day, it would have a huge business impact,” says Larry Penrod, network manager at Barkley.

“It would affect all departments across the company,” he adds. “I don’t know what it would cost for that server to be unavailable for one day; I know that the cost would be substantial.”

With the goal of getting to 100 percent availability, Penrod developed a plan that began with creating virtual copies of nearly all of the servers using HP’s blade hardware, VMware’s virtualization software and a variety of existing storage platforms…