During Time of Critical Need, New CDW Team Helps Non-Profits Get the Most from Information Technology

CDW, leveraging its partnerships to provide The Salvation Army with the most cost-effective hardware and licensing agreements, recently performed a server virtualization assessment that led to a data center virtualization consolidation strategy currently under consideration. Through the assessment, CDW’s virtualization assessment team concluded that virtualizing The Salvation Army’s data centers could reduce the number of physical servers from 44 to 3, a consolidation ratio of 93 percent. As a result, the assessment estimated that The Salvation Army could reduce its power demand by as much as 14,000 watts and cut cooling load up to 42,000 BTUs per hour, leading to an estimated $26,000 annual savings in energy costs.