Datalink helps companies address challenges with storing, managing, and protecting data through strategic consulting services and solutions. They work closely with clients to develop strategies that close gaps between business needs and what IT delivers to maximize the value of IT investments. Datalink's expertise comes from experience with complex, heterogeneous environments and partnerships with leading technology innovators.

1. Increase The
Business
Value
Of IT
Datalink helps you store, manage,
and protect one of your organization’s
most critical assets—information.
From strategy to support, we work
closely with you to maximize the
value IT delivers to your business.
Information Means The World.

2. Store. Manage. Protect.
Three simple words.
Three challenges when iT comes To daTa.
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 one of your organization’s most critical assets—information. Datalink
strategic services and solutions help you:
■ Mitigate risk of data loss
■ Meet service levels
■ Simplify management of complex environments
■ Increase staff productivity and system efficiency
■ Minimize space and power requirements
■ Ensure regulatory compliance
We focus on creating a ■ Optimize ROI and control costs
strategy for closing the
gap between what the Simply put, we help you increase the business value of IT. With a consultative
business needs and what approach, we focus on creating a strategy for closing the gap between what the
IT delivers. Developing business needs and what IT delivers. While it’s exciting to talk about the latest
a winning close-the-gap technology, we know that developing a winning close-the-gap strategy is first and
strategy is first and fore- foremost. It sets the stage for making better decisions regarding technologies,
most. It sets the stage for processes, and people. And, it’s foundational to maximizing the business
making better decisions value of IT.
regarding technologies, Strategic and action-based, our professional services team works side-by-side
processes, and people. with you throughout the entire process. From analysis and design to implemen-
tation, management, and support, we’re with you every step of the way.
Why Companies Choose Datalink
An information storage architect since 1987, Datalink helps companies address
complex data storage, management, and protection challenges. Our long-term
customer relationships are driven by our consultative approach and proven, field-
tested expertise.
Independent Perspectives & Recommendations – Customers value our
unbiased approach. We use technologies from multiple industry-leading and
competing innovators and tailor solutions to your needs. Inside access to each
manufacturer’s research and development roadmaps, resources, and technolo-
gies provides us with a unique vantage point to analyze, design, implement,
manage, and support your solutions.

3. Expertise & Field-Tested Best Practices – Our expertise spans complex, heterogeneous environments made
up of technologies from multiple manufacturers. With extensive field-tested experience, rigorous training, and
embedded best practices, our services and solutions are delivered proficiently and effectively. Our large and
deep bench of professional and support services engineers can be leveraged across the country.
Extension to In-House Teams – Working with Datalink helps you enhance staff productivity and efficiency.
We remove the burden of research and development from your IT staff and fill resource gaps. An extension to
your team, we sort through the pros and cons of each architecture, approach, and product option available.
Industry-Leading Customer Support – With direct, real-time access to Datalink customer support engineers,
disruptions in your storage environment are resolved quickly and accurately, minimizing the impact on your
business and IT staff. As the single point of contact, Datalink provides services that cover multiple manufacturers
and product lines.
Practices
Datalink practices ensure IT strategies and tactics are aligned with business needs. Each practice spans
solutions made up of hardware and software from multiple storage innovators, along with a comprehensive
suite of professional and support services.
Consolidation & Virtualization – Focused on Backup & Recovery – We help you mitigate
simplifying management, lowering costs, and risk by ensuring continual data access for
increasing utilization, Datalink helps you build priority business functions. Supporting both
a comprehensive server-to-storage local and remote backup and recovery
strategy. Our storage solutions capabilities, we assure data
maximize the benefits of is available to support
consolidated and virtualized business needs. Backups
server environments, are more reliable,
resulting in better SLAs are achieved,
utilization rates and and management
manageability. is simplified.
Archive & Compliance – Business Applications –
Our archive and compli- Today’s demanding busi-
ance practice enables ness applications present a
you to manage the growth number of challenges from
of structured and unstruc- both a size and complexity
tured data through policy-based perspective. Our solutions ease
archiving and discovery capabilities. and streamline moving and provi-
We help you simplify storage, lower sioning storage, decrease the amount
costs, ease management, and streamline discovery of storage required, and improve utilization
in order to meet regulatory compliance and litigation rates. And, we ensure backup and recovery
support requirements. solutions meet service level requirements.

4. Services
From strategy to support, Datalink works closely with you to maximize the value of your IT investments.
Analyze – Our consultative approach begins with a as a guide and project management plan in place,
clear understanding of your business strategies, we deploy each solution using Datalink and industry
challenges, and needs. Datalink assists by developing best practices.
a gap analysis encompassing infrastructure,
Manage – System reporting services are
staff, and processes, and recommends
at the core of our managed services
steps and solutions to close
offering. We can also augment
the gap.
your staff with onsite resources.
Design – Once the analysis Both options enable you
phase is complete, we to remove the burden
design a solution aligned from your staff, improve
with your needs. Our productivity, and optimize
design ensures your system performance.
information storage,
Support – Direct,
management, and protec-
real-time access to
tion infrastructures and
Datalink support engineers
processes meet service
ensures resolutions
level agreements and
are both quick and accurate.
maximize the return on
Serving as a single point of
your investment.
contact, our support services
Implement – Datalink partners with cover product lines of multiple
you to schedule, prepare for, and deploy storage manufacturers. Consolidating
new solutions with minimal disruption to support services with Datalink frees up your
your organization. With a statement of work team and maximizes uptime.
Partners
Datalink works with the industry’s leading innovators, including NetApp, Symantec Corporation, Hitachi Data
Systems Corporation, Riverbed Technology, VMware, Diligent Technologies Corporation, Cisco, Quantum
Corporation, EMC Corporation, Data Domain, Brocade Communications, Inc., Sun Microsystems, IBM,
Spectra Logic Corporation, APTARE, and others.
Leverage Datalink
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 your business.
Information Means The World. 8170 Upland Circle, Chanhassen, MN 55317 952-944-3462 | 800-448-6314 | www.datalink.com
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