CDW White Paper Sample

YOU NEED IT, YOU BUY IT.
Then components got cheaper and smaller. Boxes shrank and became more affordable. The PC hit the scene, landing a machine at seemingly every desk in the business world. Companies bought the processing power and memory they needed for each set of tasks, each initiative, each individual. Machines got less expensive, improved in performance and proliferated. Now, IT managers have found they have a whole new problem: too many components to manage easily and cost-effectively.

YOU BUY IT, YOU MANAGE IT.
Servers, workstations and applications now abound. They must be deployed, upgraded, provisioned and secured. Users rely heavily on technology and must be given the right tools to do their jobs effectively. Business applications continue to ask for more processing speed and power, while users continue to need different ways to access information. IT has come full circle, using virtualization technologies to consolidate a dizzying number of resources. Today, virtualization is shrinking footprints in the data center and alleviating management and security concerns on the desktop.