The economic downturn is leading organizations to look more closely than ever at controlling costs. As a result, IT departments will increasingly be asked to streamline and do more with less. Leveraging and optimizing existing network assets will prove crucial in the effort to increase IT productivity without major capital investments.

CDW & Cisco will discuss Cisco's innovative EnergyWise technology and best practices on network optimization based on CDW's work with customers across North America.

Available across the Cisco Catalyst Switching portfolio, the innovative Cisco EnergyWise technology helps increase energy efficiency while reducing operational costs and greenhouse gas emissions for the entire organization. It uses the network as the platform to centrally manage potentially all powered devices and reduces corporate carbon footprint well beyond the two percent traditionally attributed to the IT industry.

Cisco's EnergyWise key differentiators include:

• Optimizing energy and GhG emissions across the entire corporate infrastructure--not just the IT part of it
• An open industry effort, bringing in partners' products to drive wide-scale energy efficiency
• Delivering all part of the optimization lifecycle, including measuring, reporting and regulating power usage

Please join CDW and Cisco to discuss how you can capitalize on your organization's infrastructure investment.