As a leading distributor of government IT solutions, Carahsoft knows the unique requirements of solution providers and the federal customers it serves. Carahsoft understands the most intricate of government IT needs, such as egress and ingress fees, cost terms, procurement challenges and federal funding.
Based in Reston, Virginia, and founded in 2004, Carahsoft is a Dell Technologies distributor that helps channel partners with government IT solutions. Through Carahsoft’s value-added resellers, along with Dell Technologies’ APEX Flex on Demand solution, they are supporting public sector organizations across federal, state, and local government agencies. They also serve numerous education and healthcare markets. Carahsoft packages this entire solution, and support is delivered through 2,000 Carahsoft professionals and a network of resellers, system integrators and consultants working together to provide industry-leading IT solutions.
Today, around 90% of Carahsoft’s government customers are utilizing the services of a cloud service provider. While most agencies have a cloud-first IT policy, they cannot sacrifice the flexibility and security tradeoffs that are common in cloud-first approaches. Hence, why Carahsoft uses Dell Technologies APEX Flex on Demand solution with public sector customers to meet these competing, yet important needs.
Carahsoft partners with Dell’s APEX to ensure they are ‘cloud-right’
Because the Carahsoft solution is “cloud-right” it is the hybrid cloud model most ideally suited to federal organizations’ needs. Working in tandem with cloud service providers, government agencies can utilize Dell APEX for on-premises private cloud, providing extremely secure, onsite infrastructure for mission-critical or highly sensitive applications.
With Dell APEX Flex on Demand, federal customers gain a simpler way to manage their IT. That’s because Dell Technologies manages and supports the infrastructure and solution, so there are no incremental maintenance costs to customers. In addition, on-demand resources are allocated on an as-needed basis, so customers can immediately deploy additional capabilities.
For federal customers, flexibility is an essential requirement. Customers want to customize their technology stack configuration and adjust it as necessary. With Dell APEX Flex on Demand, customers can have different technology stacks, solutions, or vendors due to the agile configuration and flexible consumption model.
Patrick Spinosa, Civilian Team Lead at Carahsoft explains “Our customers don’t want out-of-the-box IT solutions; they need tailored configurations. With APEX’s agility and flexibility, we see a productivity boost with our government customers”.
Government agencies must also manage within strict budgetary constraints. Dell APEX Flex on Demand offers a very low upfront cost through an OpEx financial model. This way federal customers can reallocate their capital expense (CapEx) budgets for other innovations.
Operationally, Dell APEX customers only pay for the capacity used. When additional capacity is needed, customers can quickly scale up or down. Financial charges for usage above 85% of APEX’s deployed capacity are waived, which is a feature that is unmatched in the market. By using an on-demand model, customers save money, can predict their IT costs and, as a result can more effectively plan and control financial spending.
The future is consumption-based IT – and the future is now
An ever-increasing number of global organizations are adopting cloud-right, consumption-based IT models to align IT investments with business requirements. Consumption-based IT, like Dell APEX Flex on Demand, provides the ideal hybrid cloud and flexible consumption model for customers, and as such enabling improved business outcomes. And for public sector enterprises, Dell APEX Flex on Demand offers an extremely secure, on-premises private cloud solution that works with cloud environments, as it meets the rigorous security standards of federal organizations.
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