Last week we read the Wall Street Journal article, “Spare Parts, Fix-It-Yourself Guides Hit the Market as Brands Ponder Repairability,” and see how this law affects not only car manufacturers, but technology companies as a whole.

CDS, the leading provider of multi-vendor services (MVS) for data centers worldwide, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named the company for the first time to its 2021 Solution Provider 500 list thanks to a breakout 2020 that featured new innovation and leadership from CDS.

CDS VP of OEM and Channel Sales was named to the CRN 2021 Women of the Channel list. The annual list acknowledges the unique strengths, vision, and achievements of women from all over the IT channel, including vendors, distributors and solution providers. We sat down with her to learn more about her role at CDS and the new Commit channel program.

The importance of data center security in post-warranty support is a major concern for many organizations. With the right security measures in place, organizations can continue to have confidence in our post-warranty support services.

Do you know your options when your system warranty ends? This infographic spells out the most common options available.

How well do you know Multi-Vendor Services (MVS)? Let this infographic guide you on important characteristics.

From transition to asset decommissioning, Multi-Vendor Services (MVS) deliver value throughout the lifecycle of your data center infrastructure.

What does it mean when two giants of IT distribution come together? Our POV on MVS provides a perspective.

CDS, the leading provider of multi-vendor services (MVS) for data centers worldwide, today introduced Commit [LINK], a new global channel program aimed at helping solution providers bring the most advanced, comprehensive and complementary infrastructure services to their enterprise customers.

No matter how long any warranty is, it always seems that the moment it expires is when things start going horribly wrong. It’s as true in your data center as it is with cars and phones. Once the initial warranty on a server or storage array expires, it can affect your entire stack -- and the critical apps and workloads that drive your business.

There are many third-party maintenance providers. They are not all made equal, and it is not a simple task to select the right one.  Every customer has different requirements, but these are the five main areas to focus on when selecting a maintenance partner.

As organizations consider their options for the post-warranty support of their data center server, network, and storage systems, they are faced with an assortment of industry acronyms and jargon – TPM, EOSL, LSD, and more. How do you separate the signal from the noise of this market, and most importantly, how do you make the right choice for post-warranty support of your critical data center infrastructure?

If you’ve ever been responsible for updating or transitioning a data center, you are probably convinced that Murphy’s Law was written by someone with a job like yours. Anything that can go wrong probably will, at the worst possible moment.

CDS, the leading provider of multi-vendor services (MVS) for data centers worldwide, today announced three new services that further distinguish the company as the preferred partner for enterprise data center support that spans all major infrastructure brands and models and speeds the ability for customers to achieve major cost savings and extend the useful life of their IT assets.

CDS, the leading provider of multi-vendor services (MVS) for data centers worldwide, today unveiled its new Raytrix MVS platform, a comprehensive set of capabilities that extend the useful life of storage, server and network infrastructure running mission-critical workloads in hybrid cloud environments.

The world’s leading OEMs for storage, network, and servers partner with CDS to offer Multi-Vendor Services (MVS) for their equipment, throughout the asset lifecycle. CDS’ patented Raytrix MVS platform enables these OEMs with the capabilities they need to globally deliver on SLAs, while simultaneously lowering costs. As CIOs contemplate the next steps in their organization’s modernization journey, “better together” MVS offers an attractive method to extend the useful life of assets while unlocking and redirecting spend to higher value outcomes during migrations. 

In the next year, Dell EMC’s Data Domain DD5200, DD4200, DD4500, DD7200, DD9500 and Symmetrix VMAX 40K will have reached End of Life, with the majority of the support for these items officially ending in July 2022.

By June of next year, a number of Hitachi storage systems will enter “end of life”: Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) HM700, DF850S, DF850MH, 110, 130, and 150, as well as Virtual Storage Platform G1000 (VSP G1000), and Hitachi VSP G1000 RAID 800.  

Fire is thought to be one of the most destructive forces on Earth. In most cases, fire is an effective way to prevent forensic countermeasures– or to completely destroy an item.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) simplifies many of the traditional administrative tasks associated with expanding or managing your data storage capabilities. The fully integrated, modular approach allows you to add capacity quickly and easily, and to configure fail-over systems in the event of an outage.