CDW is an award-winning VMware partner and has achieved their highest principal-tier status. Our relationship also spans around 20 years. We are thus uniquely positioned to help businesses across a broad spectrum take advantage of VMware's solutions portfolio. These include VDI End User Compute (EUC), hybrid cloud infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Cloud on AWS.

Dedicated VMware Resources

Advanced PoC and Demo Facilities

Comprehensive Services, from Deployed to Managed

Experienced Licensing Resources, including ELAs

As international leaders in cloud infrastructure and digital workspace, VMware and CDW are tightly integrated in supporting customers to accelerate their digital transformation. CDW holds the highest accreditations and our software consultants have unparalleled knowledge and experience to help navigate the world of licensing to maximise cost efficiencies, including enterprise licence agreements (ELAs).

Our available resources include VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDX), who are an elite group of professionals highly skilled in enterprise deployments to deliver the best value from any VMware design. We are highly experienced in delivering large-scale, complex solutions with VMware, ranging from standard vSphere deployments to full-scale hybrid cloud platforms using vSAN, NSX, VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Cloud on AWS.

From sales experts to solutions architects and pre-sales consultants to support staff, CDW invests heavily in the expertise of our people. With this commitment, we are proud to hold all core VMware solution competencies to provide a comprehensive level of service, including:

  • Data Centre Virtualisation
  • Cloud Management and Automation
  • Cloud Provider
  • VMware on AWS
  • Transform Networking and Security
  • Empower Digital Workspace

CDW has won numerous awards, including many VMware awards, which are given to exemplary channel partners to recognise best-in-class business practices. These include:

  • UK Public Sector Partner of the Year 2019
  • End-User Computing International Partner of the Year
  • Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Regional Partner of the Year
  • Dell Power of Partnership Award 2020 – recognising the partner that demonstrated the Dell Technologies and VMware Better Together ethos

Scope

  • CDW can deliver the entire VMware portfolio throughout its lifecycle.
  • We make sourcing, deploying, supporting and managing VMware products easy.
  • VMware innovation joins CDW's global reach, expertise and technology ecosystem.
  • Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) end-user compute to hybrid cloud infrastructure to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware Cloud on AWS.
  • Comprehensive VMware validated services to help businesses successfully deploy solutions.

Scale

With locations across the world, our National Distribution Centre (NDC) and National Configuration Centre (NCC) can ship to global organisations in 170 countries:

  • CDW are experts in the logistics of IT supply from our 120,000 sq. ft National Distribution Centre.
  • From our 30,000 sq. ft configuration centre, we can configure, image, asset tag, upgrade, quality control and pre-order for future rollout.

Expertise

Try out a host of VMware and CDW technologies in our proof-of-concept laboratories, including vSAN appliance, vSphere environments, VMware Cloud Foundation and NSX.

CDW holds the highest accreditations, including solution competencies and VMware validated Master Services Competencies: