Brandon Zimmerman

Brandon Zimmerman is a senior solution architect for CDW's power and cooling group. In his role, Brandon develops and implements comprehensive enterprise power and cooling solutions for CDW customers. Brandon specializes in UPS’s, in-row and perimeter cooling units, PDUs and racks. He is also responsible for helping facilitate power and cooling training programs within CDW. Prior to his current role, Brandon held the position of account manager and senior services solution architect at CDW. Brandon holds a bachelor’s in marketing and management from Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. He has also achieved certifications from leading companies, including Schneider Electric/APC, Emerson/Liebert, Eaton and Tripp Lite. Brandon currently resides in the Chicago area.

Senior Solution Architect - Power and Cooling

Supporting Your Network’s Edge Environment

As edge environments become more critical to business success, maintaining the power, cooling and management needs should be top of mind.

By Brandon Zimmerman

August 11, 2020

Networking, Data Center

[sayit]With more people working remotely, end users must have faster access to critical information. Edge environments move that critical information closer to the end user, thus making them more efficient. This is the same concept streaming services use to distribute content to their users. Discover how CDW can assist in meeting your edge environment and…

Maintaining reliable and efficient operations requires you to think through your cooling strategy from several angles.

By Brandon Zimmerman

June 22, 2017

Data Center

Technologies such as virtualization and the cloud have changed data centers dramatically in recent years. One thing that hasn't changed, though, is the need to keep them cool. While many organizations have moved data and workloads to the cloud, most keep some servers on-premises, often in smaller data centers or server closets. Because most physical…

Data Center UPS: Current Trends

By Brandon Zimmerman

December 18, 2013

Data Center

The changes today in the data center with virtualization, blade chassis and storage devices brings changes in how we provide an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) to them. The typical legacy data center was filled with underutilized 2U – 5U servers and networking gear. With Virtualization we have taken what used to be 2-3 racks and…