Internal and external dynamics make storing, managing, and protecting data increasingly more challenging. Overwhelming data growth, stringent service level requirements, space and power constraints, regulatory compliance, and cost containment are just a few of the pressures companies face.

The Role Datalink Plays

Addressing these challenges head-on, Datalink helps you store, manage, and protect your organization’s most critical asset—information. Datalink strategic services and solutions:

• Mitigate risk of data loss
• Meet service levels
• Simplify management of complex environments
• Increase staff productivity and system efficiency
• Tackle space and power constraints
• Ensure regulatory compliance
• Optimize ROI and control costs

Simply put, we help you increase the business value of IT. With a consultative-led approach, we assist with defining strategies that align your IT environment (technologies, processes, people) with the needs of your organization. We believe that strategy comes before solutions. It’s a basic Datalink tenet. While it’s exciting to talk about the latest technology, we know that a developing a winning strategy is first and foremost. It sets the stage for making technology, people, and process decisions. And, it’s foundational to maximizing the business value of IT.

Why Companies Choose Datalink

Independent Viewpoint & Approach – Customers value our unbiased approach. Not tied to one manufacturer or one suite of products, we are free to tailor solutions to your needs.

Expertise & Field-Tested Best Practices – We're 100% focused on information storage, management, and protection and have a track record of success in complex, enterprise environments.

Extension to In-House Teams – Leveraging Datalink enhances staff efficiency and productivity. We free up your team to focus on other key business initiatives.

Industry-Leading Customer Support – With direct, real-time access to Datalink customer support engineers, disruptions in your storage environment are resolved quickly and accurately.

Practices

Datalink practices help you address challenges related to storing, managing, and protecting your information assets.

Backup & Recovery – We help you mitigate risk by ensuring continual data access for priority business functions. Backups are more reliable, SLAs are achieved, and management is simplified.

Consolidation & Virtualization – Focused on simplifying management, lowering costs, and increasing utilization, Datalink helps you build a comprehensive server-to-storage strategy. Our storage solutions maximize the benefits of consolidated and virtualized server environments.

Business Applications – Our solutions ease and streamline moving and provisioning storage, decrease the amount of storage required, and improve utilization rates. And, we ensure backup and recovery solutions meet service level requirements.

Archive & Compliance – Our archive and compliance practice enables you to manage the growth of structured and unstructured data through policy-based archiving and discovery capabilities. We help you simplify storage, ease management, and streamline discovery.

Approach

From strategy to support, Datalink works closely with you to maximize the value of your information infrastructure investments.

Analyze – Our approach begins with a clear understanding of your business, strategies, and needs. We develop a gap analysis and recommend steps and solutions to close the gap.

Design – Our solution designs ensure your information storage, management, and protection infrastructure and processes meet service level agreements and maximize ROI.

Implement – Datalink schedules, helps prepare for, and deploys new solutions with minimal disruption to your organization. Datalink and industry best practices are used thoughout.

Manage – We can also augment your staff with onsite resources. We enable you to remove the burden from your staff, improve productivity, and optimize system performance.

Support – Direct, real-time access to Datalink customer support engineers ensure resolutions are quick and accurate. A single point of contact, we support products of multiple vendors.

Summary

Storing, managing, and protecting your information assets isn’t easy. Leverage Datalink when it matters most. Inside access to each manufacturer’s research and development roadmaps, resources, and technologies provides us with a unique vantage point to analyze, design, implement, manage, and support your solutions. From strategy to support, Datalink works closely with you to maximize the value IT delivers to the business.

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