CDW FINANCIAL SERVICES

WE GET IT CDW FINANCIAL SERVICES

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CLOUD PROVIDERS...

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CERTIFIED CISCO ENGINEERS...

... MORE THAN

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VENDOR PARTNERSHIPS...

...RELATIONSHIPS WITH OVER

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CARRIER PROVIDERS...

...OPTIONS..ARE..THE..KEY..TO..INVESTING..IN..COLOCATION...

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HOSTING/COLOCATION PROVIDERS...CABLES...

...ACCESS TO OVER

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DATA STORAGE FACILITIES GLOBALLY...

Gaining a competitive advantage in the capital

markets industry demands peak performance.

Complex volumes of data must be analyzed at

bleeding-edge processing speed. There’s no

room for error or inefficiency. Uninterrupted

24/7 operations are required to ensure quality

customer service and business as usual.

...NO NEED FOR A TRADE-OFF...YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL...RELIABILITY, RESILIENCY AND REDUNDANCY...

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To meet this growing need, IT infrastructure

is scaling up in size and complexity; so are

the costs and resources needed to support

it. How can securities and investment firms

better manage and maintain their data center

operations? How can they ensure reliability,

resiliency and redundancy even during

unexpected disasters or disruptions?

“Because Sandy took out companies’ primary data centers in New York and their backup data centers in New Jersey, the hurricane demonstrated the need to ideally have two fallbacks, one nearby and one far away.”

David Sarabacha, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP (specialist in resilience and recovery planning) Source: Deloitte Insights “Disaster Recovery: 10 Lessons from Hurricane Sandy,” The Wall

Street Journal CIO Journal

Having an IT infrastructure optimized for

your business needs is not an option — it’s

a requirement. The right colocation and

managed services solution allows for faster

trade execution, increased profitability and

enhanced client satisfaction. That’s where

CDW’s Financial Services team comes in.

Our experts can find the right solution

and supporting services for your capital

markets firm.

INCREASE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

• Customize your access to markets by metro region/location and the right network (microwave vs. fiber optics) to boost speed

• Quickly access information to initiate a trade and maintain a competitive edge • Proactively patch and plan capacity for

unified communications, networks, OS, storage and databases

• Simplify operations with CDW’s Enterprise Configuration Center

ENSURE RELIABLE BUSINESS CONTINUITY PERFORMANCE • Safeguard your network, systems

and data center for unfailing operations 24/7/365

• Prevent costly downtime in the event of a disaster or other service disruption • Count on round-the-clock data center

monitoring and management support from anywhere

• Rely on mission-critical redundant IT infrastructure for confident business continuity

OPTIMIZE CLIENT SERVICE AND COST BENEFITS

• Deliver quality client service with superior, uninterrupted performance levels • Drive down service costs by tapping

agnostic consulting services • Reduce IT costs and total cost of

ownership (TCO) by colocating key infrastructure components

...BENEFIT FROM SPEED, CONTINUITY AND SAVINGS...

50% of respondents ranked network availability/performance and uptime assurances/SLAs as the number one priority when selecting a multi-tenant data center provider. Security was also ranked “important” to “very important” by the largest number of respondents (98%).

Source: “Data Center Services Landscape: Colocation to Get More ‘Cloudy,’” Internap Network Services Corporation survey

RANKED SECURITY

AS IMPORTANT

Your dedicated CDW Financial Services account

team gets it. CDW supports more than 7500

U.S. capital markets firms with the industry’s

broadest and deepest technology solutions and

services. Your dedicated CDW Financial Services

account team can help assess and create

a powerful IT infrastructure that supports

strategies focused on low latency, global market

integration and visibility, customer service,

competition and risk management.

PARTNERSHIPS EXPERTS IT INFRASTRUCTURE PERF_ORMANCE TRUST

CAPITAL

MARKETS

CDW securities customers have access to the industry’s broadest and deepest technology solutions and services. The CDW Financial Services team helps these companies assess and create a powerful IT infrastructure that supports

strategies focused on low latency, global market integration and visibility

(customer service), competition and risk management.

RISK MANAGEMENT

LOW LATENCY INTEGRATION & VISIBILITY

COMPETITION

CDW FINANCIAL SERVICES

SECURITIES

...CDW FINANCIAL SERVICES GETS IT...

CDW Financial Services is a proud sponsor of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).

Brocade

_{ICX 6450 Managed Switch}

CALL FOR PRICING

• 48x10/100/1000; two 10GbE/1GbE SFP+ and two 1GbE; SFP+

(10GbE Ports On Demand)

• Desktop rack-mountable

• Includes unified communications and mobility with 10GbE and

PoE/PoE+

• Simplifies network operations and protects investments

with Brocade® _{HyperEdge™ technology, enabling}

single-point network lifecycle management and advanced services sharing across a heterogeneous stack

• Includes the Brocade Assurance Limited Lifetime Warranty and

three years of technical support

FOR THE MOST DEMANDING ENVIRONMENTS

Cisco

_{3945 Integrated Services Router for Desktop}

CALL FOR PRICING

• Delivers highly secure data, voice, video and application services

to the small office

• Future-enhanced video capabilities

• High-powered service modules with improved availability • Multi-core CPUs

• Gigabit Ethernet switching with enhanced POE • Energy visibility

PROVIDES RICH MEDIA

COLLABORATION AND VIRTUALIZATION

...CDW FINANCIAL SERVICES GETS IT...

...COLOCATION SOLUTION PRODUCTS...

recognize and trust. We’ll help you navigate your options with an unbiased view, to find the most reliable and cost-effective colocation solution for your needs.

F5 Networks

_{BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™}

(LTM) 2000S

CDW 2935554

CALL FOR PRICING

• Increases your operational efficiency and ensures peak network

performance by providing a flexible, high-performance application delivery system

• Application-centric perspective optimizes your network

infrastructure to deliver availability, security and performance for critical business applications

• Easily deploy and manage applications with user-defined F5 iApp™

templates and get complete visibility into the related statistics for those apps

• Control your application connection, traffic, configuration and

management with F5’s unique OS, which includes an open API, event-driven scripting language and device group scalability

• Optimize your existing infrastructure and consolidate application

delivery on a unified, simple-to-manage platform

• Protect the apps that run your business with powerful

network-level and protocol-network-level security and attack filtering

EMC

_VNX5600™

Unified Storage Platform

CALL FOR PRICING

• Scalable, easy-to-use solution for multi-protocol

file and block data services

• Centralized management makes administration simple • Data efficiency services reduce your capacity requirements

up to 50%

• Optimize for virtual applications with VMware® _and

Hyper-V® _integration

• Flash optimization delivers high levels of transactional

performance with increased bandwidth and low latency

• Architected for high availability in mission-critical

business environments

APPLICATION DELIVERY

Cisco

_Catalyst

_{2960S-24PS-L Switch}

CALL FOR PRICING

• 24-port managed rack-mountable switch

• Switches include Cisco® _{FlexStack switch stacking capability}

with 1Gb and 10Gb connectivity

• Fixed-configuration access switches designed for various

sized networks to provide lower total cost of ownership

• Improved ease of use, highly secure operations

and improved sustainability

PROVIDES A BORDERLESS NETWORK EXPERIENCE CALL YOUR ACCOUNT MANAGER

FOR DETAILS

CDW Remote Managed Services

• Benefit from systems and storage, intrusion

prevention, and unified communication solutions and services

CDW Hosting Services

• Leverage CDW’s Enterprise Data Centers for

your infrastructure, storage, network and disaster recovery needs

• Our Enterprise Hosting Centers have extensive physical and

network security, dedicated connectivity and world-class monitoring with support

• We provide multiple data networking services to help you connect

with our Enterprise Hosting Centers

• From Internet to WAN, firewalls to VPN access, CDW provides

extensive connectivity options

• CDW’s Hosting Services help you reduce capital expenses while

ensuring quality, flexibility and security for your hosted IT solutions

CDW®_{, CDWG}® _{and The Right Technology. Right Away}® _{are registered trademarks of CDW LLC. PEOPLE WHO} GET IT™ _{is a trademark of CDW LLC.}

Our CDW Financial Services team provides

decades of industry-leading hosted colocation

and managed service experience. We can help

your financial institution leverage the latest

technology to support your colocation solution,

and you can also count on us to assist you with

a comprehensive array of services.

... ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE...

MANAGED SERVICES.

We have access to over 800 world-class facilities, mature and focused managed services, strong service agreements, best-in-class certifications and outstanding customer service. We provide monitoring and management, including proactive patching and capacity planning for unified communications, networks, OS, storage and databases.

Meeting the demands of maintaining IT workloads can place tremendous strain on budgets, staffing, agility and innovation. See how CDW Managed Services can help you keep pace with these IT challenges. Download the white paper “Resourcing IT for Reduced Costs and Improved Service Levels” at CDW.com/managedservices.

REMOTE MANAGED SERVICES. Your organization’s remote managed solutions are increasingly important as the amount of transferable data continues to grow. CDW will work with you to build unique, reliable networks, systems and storage, intrusion prevention, and unified communication solutions and services.

CLOUD AGGREGATION SERVICES. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a solution that offers compute, storage and networking resources delivered as an on-demand service. It brings a highly flexible and scalable infrastructure for your organization’s needs. Increase organizational agility as a result of the rapid scalability that IaaS solutions provide, while moving to a far more predictable cost structure that can adapt to seasonal or unpredictable IT resource demands.

HOSTED SERVICES.

CDW understands your organization’s need for a reliable data center. Hosted services leverage CDW’s Enterprise Hosting Centers for your infrastructure, storage, network and disaster recovery needs. We provide multiple data networking services to help you connect into and out of the Enterprise Hosting Centers. From Internet to WAN, firewalls to VPN access, CDW provides extensive connectivity options.

... ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE...

CDW maintains two Network Operations Centers, five data centers, and 150 engineers and project managers dedicated to supporting the IT infrastructure needs of financial institutions across the country.

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CDW is recognized as an award-winning national

IT services and solutions provider, with noteworthy

best practices, certifications and awards that give

our customers added confidence in partnering with

us to satisfy their colocation requirements.

ITIL

Our managed services offerings are built around ITIL best practices. Our governance training, a requirement for all Managed Services staff members, is based on the ITIL approach to IT service management. We have more than 20 ITIL certified employees, including the ITIL Foundation Certification, and the top ITIL certification: the Manager’s Certificate in IT Service Management.

SAS 70

Our Managed Services practice completes a yearly Statement of Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) Type II audit. This demonstrates how we establish effective control objectives and control activities. The objective opinions expressed in this audit provide confirmation of the strength of our quality control activities and processes in relation to our hosting environment and managed services.

PCI COMPLIANCE

We have received a clean Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Report on Compliance, which indicates compliance with the PCI DSS standard. This validates our ability to provide PCI services to organizations that store, process and transmit credit card information. See the PCI Compliance Data Sheet at CDW.com/servicespci for more information.

RECOGNITION

• Cisco Gold Certified Partner • Cisco Master Managed Services • Cisco Powered Managed Contact Center • Cisco Powered Managed Data Center • Cisco Powered Managed

Mobile Communications • Cisco Powered Managed

Unified Communications

• Cisco Powered Managed Security • Cisco Small Business Specialization • Over 6200 additional Cisco

certifications and accreditations

... CREDENTIALS AND CERTIFICATIONS... CDW EXPERT SNAPSHOT...

LOCATION AND LATENCY ARE KEY TO SHAVING NANOSECONDS OFF THE TRADING PROCESS. Considerations include proximity to information sources like The Federal Reserve Bank and the Department of the Treasury — or to the trading action, which means 350 Cermak or NY4. For low latency, transmitting via microwaves versus fiber optics is the latest advantage in gaining trading speed. PARTNERING WITH AN EXPERT FOR BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING IS CRITICAL. One firm spent over $1 million to build a totally redundant data center in their headquarters. But when Hurricane Sandy struck, they discovered their above-ground lines were downed by trees. The office was up and running, but no data circuits were coming into the building and no one could connect remotely from their home.

FIND A ONE-STOP RESOURCE THAT CAN HANDLE IT ALL. Many firms don’t realize that CDW doesn’t just sell equipment; we also broker services. We have access to over 800 data centers globally. We offer RFP support, engineering design and review, and even provide project management for the lifetime of each contract. Jason C. Stroden,

Account Manager, CDW Financial Services

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