
The deals comes with the VDI market experiencing explosive growth as employees moved to work at home, remote office in the midst of the pandemic. “It allows CDW to scale ServiceWorks up and down for hybrid work solutions like call centers where there is big elasticity in demand.”

“This deal solves the two biggest challenges of VDI which is cost and complexity,” said the CEO. The CEO for a top VDI company, who did not want to be identified, said the deal is a “big win” for HPE GreenLake. The CDW DaaS solution includes virtual desktop-as-a-service fixed price infrastructure as a service colocation services backup as a service and disaster recovery as a service. The deal comes just two months after CDW stepped up its services charge with its $2.5 billion acquisition of Sirius Computer Solutions, one of the largest channel deals ever. Now, CDW said it is able to provide customers “faster time to market, offering immediate deployment when and where” it is needed.

The deal moves the CDW hardware procurement for its DaaS offering from an annual capital expenditure to a GreenLake pay-per-use model. Under the deal, ServiceWorks – CDW’s private dedicated DaaS solution for UK customers based on HPE Moonshot and Citrix- will rely on HPE GreenLake to “meet growing customer demand while avoiding costly overprovisioning and unnecessary upfront capital investment,” the $20 billion channel titan ranked No. CDW has inked a deal to use Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s GreenLake on-premise cloud service to “accelerate deployment” of its growing CDW ServiceWorks UK desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering in the midst of the global pandemic.
