Cybersecurity Services for Vandis
Vandis is a security first networking solutions provider founded in 1983 that designs, deploys and manages network, cloud and security infrastructure for education, healthcare and public sector clients.
CWS is not affiliated with Vandis. This page describes cybersecurity delivery services CWS offers to channel partners.
Vandis at a glance
- Founded
- 1983
- Operates in
- Albertson, New York
- Verticals
- education, healthcare, state and local government
- Vendor tiers
- Fortinet Expert level partner in the Engage Partner Program, Fortinet Cloud Security Specialization, Palo Alto Networks partner
Compiled from public sources: https://vandis.com/, https://vandis.com/about-us/, https://www.fortinet.com/partners.
The Challenge for Mid-Market Resellers
Vandis has been selling networks since 1983 and still operates from a single address in Albertson, New York. The reach from that one office is what stands out. Purchasing runs through GSA, NASPO, Sourcewell, OMNIA Partners and NCPA, five routes aimed squarely at schools, universities, hospitals and state agencies
Public sector buying has a shape, and that shape is punishing for a firm with one location. A district signs in spring, wants cabling and firewalls replaced across the summer break and expects everything live before students walk back in. Universities behave the same way, and hospitals schedule around clinical calendars that are no more flexible. Vandis reached Expert level in Fortinet's Engage Partner Program, holds the Fortinet Cloud Security Specialization and has been a Palo Alto Networks partner for years, so clients reasonably expect senior engineers on site rather than whoever happens to be uncommitted in July. One office cannot bend that far. Hire for the peak and good people sit idle through the winter. Staff for the trough and the summer window, which is when education actually spends its money, goes to a competitor
CWS rents the elasticity a single office cannot build. We field certified engineers under the Vandis name, working to one delivery standard, so a cutover run in July and one run in March are indistinguishable to the customer. That standard covers the United States and Canada, with French delivery where Quebec or Canadian federal work requires it. Scoping, quoting and project tracking live in Corova, which lets the firm bid a July program in April knowing what crew it will have and what the crew will cost
Relevant CWS Services for Vandis
Based on Vandis's specializations, the following CWS service lines align with their cybersecurity practice.
Why This Matters for Vandis
Five purchasing vehicles took decades to assemble and Vandis already holds them. Delivery capacity is the opposite problem, cheap to rent and expensive to own. A company that has been at this since 1983 should not be declining work in July because the calendar says so
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