Overview
Through a strategic partnership between Cloudamize and CDW, this feature is designed to help organizations optimize their infrastructure placement using CDW’s comprehensive portfolio of IT ecosystem solutions.
For companies looking to outsource infrastructure footprint management, maximize asset procurement, or transition to a reliable cloud/hybrid broker, CDW is an industry-leading option. Operating as a vendor-agnostic IT systems integrator and solutions broker, CDW helps businesses avoid restrictive vendor lock-in by designing custom infrastructure across top public clouds (AWS, Azure) and premier hardware vendors (HPE, Dell, Lenovo, Cisco).
Why Choose CDW?
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Vendor-Agnostic Reseller Model: Brokers solutions across major cloud hyperscalers and hardware OEMs to ensure your infrastructure stack is customized to your needs.
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Custom Configuration Services: Offload logistics burdens with physical hardware imaging, testing, custom asset tagging, and specialized unboxing before equipment ever arrives at your data center.
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Managed Infrastructure Services: Provides comprehensive lifecycle management (such as Azure Essentials) to handle day-to-day cloud operations and optimization.
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Enterprise Procurement at Scale: Accesses bulk purchasing power, kitting, complex data center staging, and palletized delivery logistics.
How to Access and Download the Report
⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTE: The CDW Recommendation Report and its corresponding dashboard download trays are exclusively available for customers running their infrastructure assessments directly through a CDW-sponsored engagement. If your assessment was registered under a standard or alternative partner tier, these options will remain hidden, and the CDW-specific reports cannot be generated.
Once the Cloudamize analytics engine has finalized the computation for your inventory, use the following steps to access and download your custom CDW output directly from the console:
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Log into your account portal at console.cloudamize.com.
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Click and select Analyze.
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Click the yellow CDW Recommendation download button to instantly export and save the fully optimized spreadsheet to your local machine.
What is Supported?
The Cloudamize engine assesses your on-premises virtualized and bare-metal server environments, parses their exact resource footprints, and automatically matches them against specialized hardware specifications available via CDW. Recommendations include mappings to high-density data center equipment (such as HPE ProLiant platforms backed by high-performance AMD EPYC processors).
How it Works
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Telemetry Analysis: Cloudamize evaluates on-premises server resource consumption patterns (including vCPU peaks, RAM occupancy, and storage allocations).
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CDW Sizing Engine: Workloads are right-sized and paired with a highly compatible, optimized CDW physical hardware or cloud SKU profile.
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Tiered Financial Modeling: The engine surfaces financial estimations broken out across three distinct operational service tiers (Basic, Essential, and Premium), providing a clear Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) roadmap modeled in local currency (£).
What it Looks Like
The downloadable CDW Assessment Report arranges data into logical, scannable segments featuring column-level filters across your spreadsheets for rapid data parsing. The report is organized into five primary data clusters:
1. On-Prem Details
Captures the raw baseline configurations from your environment before optimization.
2. CDW Recommended Spec
Displays the target right-sized configuration engineered by Cloudamize to sustain workload performance.
3. Sizing Tiers: Basic, Essential, & Premium
Each of these three consecutive sections breaks down the precise annualized infrastructure pricing model depending on the level of managed services, support, or configuration overhead paired with the deployment.
Column Definitions & Data Dictionary
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Data Cluster |
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Description |
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On-Prem Details |
Server Name |
The unique machine hostname identified in the source environment. |
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OS |
The operating system version running on the source server. |
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On-Prem vCPUs |
Total number of virtual CPUs currently allocated to the source machine. |
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On-Prem CPU Utilization (%) |
The observed average or peak CPU workload percentage measured during analysis. |
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On-Prem Allocated Memory (GB) |
Total physical memory configured on the source asset. |
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On-Prem Peak Memory (GB) |
Maximum RAM occupancy recorded during the assessment lifecycle. |
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On-Prem Disk (GB) |
Total raw storage capacity provisioned to the machine on-premises. |
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CDW Recommended Spec |
Recommended vCPU |
The right-sized number of processing cores is needed to sustain the workload. |
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Recommended RAM |
The optimized, right-sized memory allotment is recommended for the target machine. |
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CDW Machine |
The target hardware configuration or broker service SKU assigned to the host. |
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CDW vCPU |
The exact vCPU count featured on the target CDW asset. |
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CDW RAM (GB) |
The precise memory footprint provided by the recommended CDW asset. |
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CDW Disk (GB) |
The baseline storage allocation assigned to the target CDW asset. |
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CDW IOPS |
The input/output operations per second rating of the recommended storage. |
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CDW Additional Disk (GB) |
Extra storage capacity is appended to meet expansion or capacity buffer metrics. |
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Basic Plan |
Annual Compute Cost (£) |
Baseline yearly compute or server hardware licensing costs under the Basic tier. |
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Annual Additional Disk Cost (£) |
Yearly cost associated with additional storage volumes in the Basic tier. |
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Total Annual Cost (£) |
Combined annual Basic cost structure (Annual Compute + Annual Disk). |
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Essential Plan |
Annual Compute Cost (£) |
Yearly compute cost structure under the mid-tier Essential services standard. |
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Annual Additional Disk Cost (£) |
Yearly storage cost structure under the Essential tier framework. |
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Total Annual Cost (£) |
Combined annual Essential deployment expenditure tracking. |
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Premium Plan |
Annual Compute Cost (£) |
Full-service enterprise compute/management costs under the Premium tier. |
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Annual Additional Disk Cost (£) |
Storage volume tracking costs associated with Premium tier specifications. |
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Total Annual Cost (£) |
Combined peak annual Premium deployment expenditure tracking. |
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Additional Info |
Comments |
General system notes, engineering observations, or special mapping logic flags. |
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ID (Server Name + Instance ID) |
The unique combination code is used to accurately verify, track, and align this asset. |
External Documentation & Support
For details regarding active hardware options, server configurations, or staging logistics, browse the CDW Product Portfolio.
If you have any queries, please get in touch with the helpdesk via our Helpdesk Portal or by email at helpdesk@cloudamize.com.