CDW Designated FlexPod Premium Partner

CDW LLC,
a provider of technology solutions to business, government, education and
healthcare, announced that it has been designated a FlexPod Premium Partner by
Cisco and NetApp to provide solutions and services supporting the FlexPod data
center solution.

As a FlexPod Premium Partner, CDW is recognized for its advanced competencies
in supporting customers as a trusted adviser in deploying FlexPod solutions.

FlexPod is a pre-tested and validated
solution that combines networking, computing and storage in a shared
infrastructure and supports multiple applications and workloads to help
customers accelerate and simplify their transition to the cloud.

CDW will be able to assist customers with implementing and configuring
virtualized data center solutions based on the FlexPod shared
infrastructure, as well as help customers develop and adhere to best practices
for building and managing solutions from Cisco and NetApp. The flexible,
scalable shared infrastructure is pre-tested to lower deployment risk, increase
data center efficiencies and create a flexible IT environment to build a
private cloud.

FlexPod Premium Partner status certifies
CDW provides converged data center solutions and services
based on the pre-tested and FlexPod data center platform. CDW is positioned to serve its networking,
computing and storage customers with a single infrastructure
platform that helps reduce deployment risk, accelerates deployment
times, provides access to a range of additional services and capabilities
specific to FlexPod environments, and increases efficiencies.

"CDW
is honored to be a FlexPod Premium Partner, as this status demonstrates our
commitment to being a trusted and highly specialized data center solutions
provider," said Doug Eckrote, CDW SVP, strategic solutions and
services. "Customer response has
been very positive to the collaborative approach we take with our vendor
partners to deliver FlexPod’s converged infrastructure and networking
capabilities, integrated with our other data center and cloud offerings."

"CDW’s
achievement to Premium Partner status is well timed as we celebrate the
two-year anniversary of our FlexPod collaboration with Cisco," said
Todd Palmer, VP, Americas Channel, NetApp. "This solution demonstrates NetApp’s commitment to deliver best-of-breed
technologies for the unified data center through our partner ecosystem,
creating more opportunities and a better alternative for our channel partners."

Cisco and NetApp’s FlexPod is a validated
shared infrastructure that features the Cisco UCS server, Cisco network
switches and NetApp unified storage systems running on Data ONTAP software. The
design architecture has been jointly tested and validated as a Cisco Validated
Design, so CDW can assess customer needs and deploy integrated solutions from
Cisco and NetApp that meet the requirements of their dynamic data
centers.