Current Product and Solution Trials
Many CDW partners are offering free trials and offers for many work from home solutions, spanning from online collaboration and videoconferencing solutions to endpoint security and authentication, and much more.
Information Subject to Change
All of this information is subject to change at any time per our partners' discretion.
Free Webex Online
Duration: 90 days
Cisco is offering free Webex accounts for individuals and small business that need an immediate solution to enable remote working. This includes unlimited meetings with up to 100 participants and the ability to experience meetings on your desktop or mobile device. Additionally, you get screensharing and recording capability with 1GB of cloud storage.
Webex Enterprise Trials
Duration: 30 or 90 days, with 30 day extension availability
Webex Trials is for organizations looking to provide host meeting accounts to employees and require centralized administrative management and reporting capabilities. Meetings are full featured, with HD video, content sharing and recording. You can have unlimited meetings and webinars with up to 200 participants.This features toll-dial and VoIP audio.
Webex FedRAMP
Duration: 90 days with a 30 day grace period
Cisco is providing FedRAMP Trials, available for 50 seats per customer with ability to go up to 1,000 seats. Intended for those requiring FedRAMP, these trials provide a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. FedRAMP Trials includes global toll and VoIP and requires passwords on all meetings.
Free Events for Customers
For organizations that had to cancel or postpone physical events due to COVID-19, Cisco is delivering free events with Vbrick, with 3 free live events up to 500 participants or 1 free live event up to 5,000 participants.
Webex Events 3000
Duration: 30 days
Cisco is providing Webex Events 3000 to customers for free. One month of service is provided for one Named User and must be renewed and approved if extension needed. Webex Audio (if required) can be added at Standard Discounts. You can choose to use VoIP only at no cost. This offer needs to be ordered through CDW.
Webex Contact Center Quick Deployment
Duration: 90 days
The quick deployment solution bundles premium agent software, PSTN for calling and a robust set of omnichannel, routing and report capabilities for up to 1,000 concurrent agents. The bundle features include quick deployment, short-term commitment, rapid ramp up for crisis response teams and special considerations for qualifying healthcare providers such as hospitals and medical clinics.
Unified Communications Manager (UCM)
Duration: 90 days with one-time renewal option
For customers looking to temporarily configure users on their existing solution so they can work remotely, an enterprise can add temporary licenses to enable remote users to use Cisco Jabber or Webex Teams, or a Cisco IP Phone connected at their remote desk. UCM provides reliable, secure, scalable and manageable call control. These licenses will be available to request on a self-service tool available by April 1, 2020.
Cisco Data Center
Duration: 180 days
Cisco is providing a set of data center offerings that will help customers manage and rapidly expand their virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) including a new, pre-configured HyperFlex bundle with prioritized shipping and free Intersight management for 180 days.
Cisco Intersight Essentials Edition
Duration: 180 days
To help IT teams monitor and manage their infrastructure anywhere, anytime, Cisco is augmenting the VDI data center bundle with a 180-day free trial of Cisco Intersight Essentials edition. Intersight is a cloud-based SaaS tool that lets you manage all your HyperFlex and UCS devices from anywhere through a single pane of glass.
Microsoft Teams Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Trial
Duration: 6 months
Available to new or existing commercial customers managed by a CSP partner (1000 user limit).
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Office 365 E1 CSP Trial
Duration: 6 months
Available to new or existing commercial customers managed by a CSP partner (3000 user limit).
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Office 365 E1 Trial
Duration: 6 months
Available to all customers, no user limit. This is initiated through Microsoft.
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Microsoft Teams
Duration: Unlimited
Work remotely without feeling remote. With COVID-19 continuing to impact people and countries around the world, teams and schools everywhere are moving to remote work and distance learning. Get Teams for free and learn how to get started.
Office 365 G1 Trial (GCC)
Duration: 6 months
GCC customers managed by Microsoft, no user limits , IT admin initiated.
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Office 365 A1/A5 Education
Duration: 6 months
New or existing education customers, no user limits, IT admin initiated.
Office 365 Nonprofit E1 for Volunteers (Donation)
Duration: 6 months
New or existing nonprofit customers, 2000 user limit, IT admin initiated.
Security (Carbon Black)
Duration: 90 days
For the next 90 days, VMware has removed endpoint limits for customers’ existing licenses. Customers should confidently execute their business continuity plans without worrying about potential overage fees.
SD-WAN (VeloCloud)
Duration: 3 months
Get a free trial of up to 50 (100 when combined with Horizon or VMC on AWS offers) Velocloud Edge devices for 3 months.
EUC (WorkspaceONE and Horizon)
Duration: 4 months
CDW receives additional discounts off Workspace ONE, Horizon Cloud and Horizon 7 MSRP. Requires special approval — reach out to the VMware sales team for more info.
Secure Wi-Fi
Duration: indefinite
To help healthcare facilities to focus on serving patients, Juniper is offering a free secure “Pop-Up Wi-Fi Network” kit to customers for any temporary coronavirus testing facility. More information and a request form can be found here.
AI-Driven Assistant
Duration: 3 months
Troubleshoot remotely with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant - free for 90 days to existing Mist Wired/Wireless Assurance customers. Customers can activate by simply completing this request form and entering "Type of Request" as "COVID-19 Marvis Offer".
Network Security Offers
Duration: 4 months
With a secure network being more important than ever, Juniper has three offers to help customers secure critical workloads, secure remote sites and defend against DDoS.
Virtual Training
Duration: indefinite
Whether you need a quick demo or certification testing, Juniper Training has a full online curriculum at your service. From Virtual Demos, 25 Juniper Open Learning courses and Juniper vLabs, to Juniper certs with remote proctoring.
Secure Wi-Fi
Duration: indefinite
To help healthcare facilities to focus on serving patients, Juniper is offering a free secure “Pop-Up Wi-Fi Network” kit to customers for any temporary coronavirus testing facility. More information and a request form can be found here.
AI-Driven Assistant
Duration: 3 months
Troubleshoot remotely with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant - free for 90 days to existing Mist Wired/Wireless Assurance customers. Customers can activate by simply completing this request form and entering "Type of Request" as "COVID-19 Marvis Offer".
Network Security Offers
Duration: 4 months
With a secure network being more important than ever, Juniper has three offers to help customers secure critical workloads, secure remote sites and defend against DDoS.
Virtual Training
Duration: indefinite
Whether you need a quick demo or certification testing, Juniper Training has a full online curriculum at your service. From Virtual Demos, 25 Juniper Open Learning courses and Juniper vLabs, to Juniper certs with remote proctoring.
Avaya Spaces Free License
Duration: 60 days
Avaya is pleased to offer a free 60-day license to Avaya Spaces—including video conferencing—for your entire organization. This free offer also includes persistent chat spaces and file sharing, and is accessible from a browser or mobile app.
Avaya Remote Worker Tools
Duration: 90 days
Solutions are available for virtually every Avaya unified communications platform, and in many cases you may already have entitlements to enable remote working. Complimentary 90-day licenses are also available to assist you if required.
Avaya Contact Center
Duration: 90 days
Avaya is offering a remote solution that fits your current Avaya contact center allowing your agents to work remotely without compromising your customer and employee experiences.
Healthcare Solutions
Duration: 60 days
- A free 60-day license to Avaya Spaces
- Avaya Aura® and Avaya IP Office™ and feature a 90-day complimentary Power user license. This offer is limited to existing Avaya Aura and Avaya IP Office license holders who transition to work from home for the 90-day access period
- 90-day complimentary license for Avaya contact center platforms
Additional Trials
Chrome Enterprise Upgrade Trial
Duration: 30 days
Chrome Enterprise Upgrade provides a simple and secure way to manage your ChromeOS devices in the admin console.
- Remotely manage through a cloud-based console
- Over 500+ advanced security, update, app, browser, extension, and user policies
- Easy configuration and deployment with pre-set policies based on Google recommendations
- Deploy apps and extensions without imaging devices
- 24/7 IT admin support
Sign up for a free 30-day trial of the Chrome Enterprise Upgrade and enroll up to 50 existing Chromebooks in your organization.
DNS Security
Duration: 90 days
Palo Alto's Prisma Access solution offers remote users a quick deployment, global reach and a dynamic scale up and down capability.
Veritas Backup Exec
Duration: 60 days
Backup Exec features include integration with Azure Site Recovery for Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), seamless scalability of Backup Exec to the cloud, and a broad range of certified integrated cloud connectors, including AWS S3, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform Storage.
Single Sign-On/Multi-Factor Authentication
Duration: 6 months
Okta is currently offering their single sign-on and Multi-Factor Authentication for free. These offerings are part of their Emergency Remote Work campaign and will be available for eligible customers up to 6 months from the contract start date.
Free Video Meetings
Duration: indefinite
8x8 has free video meetings available to you. All you need is an internet connection and the Google Chrome browser and you’re ready for a game-changing experience. The 8x8 app is available for free download.
For commercial customers 8x8 is offering month-to-month contracts to accommodate work from home initiatives.
Data Management
Duration: 30 days
Veeam Availability Suite is Veeam’s flagship solution that makes data management simple, flexible and reliable. Take the stress out of maintaining your data by removing the manual processes associated with data protection, recovery, monitoring, ransomware protection and compliance.
Data Management
Duration: 2 weeks
Rubrik simplifies backup and recovery for virtualized environments. It eliminates backup software by integrating data orchestration, catalog management, and deduplicated storage into a single, scale-out fabric. Rubrik scales linearly so your business is not hampered by forklift upgrades.
AWS Desktop and Application Streaming Business Productivity
Duration: 12 months
AWS remote work and learning solutions allow employees, contact center agents and students to remain productive and connected while working from home. AWS remote work and learning services include remote desktops and applications, tools for communication and collaboration and contact center solutions that can be deployed quickly at global scale.
Videoconferencing
Duration: indefinite
Zoom has removed a 40-minute meeting limit on its free Basic accounts for students and teachers at American K-12 schools. The company has partnered with Clever, the most widely used single sign-on service used by U.S. school districts, so that schools who don’t have access to its service can get it quickly.
HPE Financial Services
Duration: indefinite
HPE Financial Services can help alleviate some of the strain felt by businesses around the globe as they navigate an uncertain business climate. From helping release capital from existing infrastructures, to deferring payments, and providing pre-owned tech to relieve capacity strain, HPEFS has the ability to help address some of the most pressing issues quickly.
NetApp Cloud Insights
Duration: 30 days
NetApp Cloud Insights is an infrastructure monitoring tool that gives you visibility into your complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, you can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all your resources including your public clouds and your private data centers. Let Cloud Insights help you understand current workloads, so you can invest wisely in future enhancements. Get a free 30 day trial.
Riverbed Client Accelerator
Duration: 90 days
With a Riverbed Client Accelerator free 90-day license (formerly SteelHead Mobile), you can improve workforce productivity by:
- Optimizing At-Home Network Connections. Achieve up to 99% data reduction & boost network performance.
- Delivering Reliable Performance of business-critical Cloud, SaaS and on-premises applications with up to 10x faster performance.
- Eliminating Performance Problems caused by unpredictable network latency and competition among applications.
Tableau Desktop
Duration: 14 days
Leave chart builders behind—get live visual analytics for unlimited data exploration, plus interactive dashboards that help you uncover hidden insights on the fly. Tableau harnesses peoples' natural ability to spot visual patterns quickly, revealing everyday opportunities and eureka moments alike.
Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Solution
Duration: 30 days
Nutanix is offering a 30 day free trial including unlimited users for Xi Frame, their Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution.
Cloud-Native Endpoint Protection
Duration: 15 days
Request a 15 day trial for this market-leading next-gen antivirus that includes a suite of intelligence and response tools to help you get:
- Better Protection: Protects against all threat vectors, not just malware - even when computers and servers aren’t connected to the internet.
- Better Performance: Cloud-based architecture and no need for signature updates.
- Immediate Time To Value: No fine-tuning or costly infrastructure. Receive unmatched prevention from the moment you deploy.