Datalink is a $280 million business solutions provider that offers technologies and business process consulting services to over 2,500 clients. It provides turn-key solutions for virtualization, data protection, advanced networks, and business continuity. Datalink aims to improve clients' business processes and infrastructure utilization while reducing costs through assessment, design, implementation, management and support services. It leverages strategic partnerships with technology leaders and a technical staff to help clients optimize their IT assets and infrastructure.

1. Extend - Advise - Engineer Datalink Corporation: a Business Solutions ProviderEric Hentschel

2. The Datalink Snapshot Datalink is a $280mm/year BSP, technically top heavy and Services based with 23 years of proven experience and nationwide coverage for over 2,500 clients. We provide technologies from innovators of software and hardware for the server, storage and network environments to bring you turn-key business solutions for Virtualization, Data Protection, Advanced Networks, and Business Continuity. We do this through our Business Process Consulting services such as assessment, design, implementation, management, and support. We also provide POC centers, pre-build services, and our OneCall support center. We will improve your business process and bring you improved sustainable SL performance with a smaller footprint and lower CapEx and OpEx. Datalink will remove the complexity and increase the utilization of your IT infrastructure assets at the lowest possible cost and help you show the strategic value of IT for the long-term growth of your business. Eric Hentschel 614-440-5823 ehentschel@datalink.com

4. Data center infrastructure

5. Innovative HW & SW technology

6. Business Process Consulting

7. Turn-key Business Solutions

8. Fortune companies

9. $50M+ Datalink-delivered services

10. Top Strategic Partnerships with OEMs

11. 2,500 customers supported from 32 US cities

12. 23 years of data center expertise

13. NASDAQ: DTLK

14. Professional Tenure

15. Over 300 Employees

16. 85% technical staff

17. 2:1 ratio in the field

18. 140 Engineers/Architects vs. 75 Sales People

19. 525 technical certifications

20. To provide Business Process Consulting

21. Aggressive Growth Plans

22. Cash on the balance sheetEric Hentschel 614-440-5823 ehentschel@datalink.com

24. New facilities

25. Consolidating facilities

26. M&A activity

27. Large application deployment

28. New network-based server or storage deployments

29. Distributed applications

30. Re-architecture activities

31. Infrastructure optimization

32. Configuration/addressing security upgrades

33. Expansion planning

34. Compliance adjustments

35. Efficiency goals

36. Legacy Investments

37. Limited bandwidth

38. Out of support

39. Limited expansion availability

45. Most of IT budget dedicated to maintaining the environmentEric Hentschel 614-440-5823 ehentschel@datalink.com > 70% of time and money spent to maintain; < 30% Innovation for long-term growth

47. What pain are you trying to eliminate

48. What new features are you trying to implement

49. What are the business and technical requirements

50. What are the parameters?

51. Constraints: budget and time frame

52. What is included

53. New vs. existing assets

54. Applications, Servers, Storage, and Networks

55. Lifecycle of Services: Assess, Design, Implement, Manage, & Support

56. Who is on the team?

57. Customer Executive Sponsor/Line of business

58. Customer Influencers and other team members and their roles

59. Who are the “for sure” Suppliers/OEMsEric Hentschel 614-440-5823 ehentschel@datalink.com

61. Premier VIP & Consulting Partner

62. Lighthouse Partner (SRM experts)

63. 30+ technical certifications

64. Network Appliance

65. Top Star Partner

66. 80+ technical certifications

67. OneCall support

68. Only partner on customer advisory board

69. Others

70. Akorri

71. Aptare

72. Brocade

73. BlueArc

74. Commvault

75. Crescendo

76. EMC

77. Entarasys

78. F5

79. HP

80. IBM

81. Isilon

82. Microsoft

83. Phoenix/NAP

84. Qlogic

85. Riverbed

86. Sepaton

87. TMS

88. HDS

89. Platinum Partner

90. 20+ technical certifications

91. Symantec

92. Platinum Partner

93. 40+ technical certifications

94. OneCall support

95. Sun/Oracle

96. Executive/Gold Oracle Partner

97. Technical Certifications

98. OneCall support

99. Cisco

100. Gold/Data Center Partner

101. 23+ technical certifications

103. Advanced Unified Communications

104. Data Center (DCNI/DCNS)

105. Quantum

106. Enterprise Storage Partner

107. Technical Certifications

108. OneCall support

109. Dell (NEW)

110. National Select Partner (only 20)

111. Certifications (in progress)

113. Servers, networks and storage

114. Data Storage & Protection

115. Backup/Recovery, Archive, Replication, De-duplication, Security & Compliance

116. Advanced Network Infrastructures

117. Network Consolidation, Network Optimization, Network QoS

118. Business Continuity

120. Symantec

121. NetApp

122. HDS

123. VMware

124. Quantum

125. Sun/Oracle

127. Virtual Infrastructure Audit and Virtualization Readiness Assessment

128. Enhanced Data Storage & Protection

129. Backup Assessment, Capacity Audit; Forecast, Utilization, Chargeback, and ROI

130. Advanced Network Infrastructures

131. Assessment & Architectural Review, Staff augmentation, and SMARTnet portfolio audit

132. Business Continuity

133. Application dependency mapping, Network utilization, and Recovery sequence Eric Hentschel 614-440-5823 ehentschel@datalink.com

135. Customers and OEMs

136. 23 years proven experience; 85% of Datalink are of a technical background

137. Top OEM partnership levels; Direct buying power

138. Proof of Concept Centers

139. Minnesota, Atlanta, Chicago, and California

140. Pre-build/Integration Services

141. Offload: staging, burn-in, configurations, diagnostics, asset tagging, imaging, racking, etc.

142. 2:1 ratio of Technical to Sales Personnel

143. 140 field support engineers; Pre and Post are the same people

145. Symantec

146. EMC/Legato

147. DataDomain

148. Aptare

149. Brocade

150. Quantum

151. Sun/Oracle

152. Spectralogic

153. Diligent

154. Industry-leading Datalink OneCalltm support

155. 24x7, real-time support services; remote and on-site

156. SLA - 75% of calls answered in 60 seconds

157. Dedicated problem duplication lab for root-cause-analysis

158. 100+ engineers available that meet or exceed vendor certifications

160. Improve your sustainable SL performance

161. Reduce your footprint, CapEx and OpEx

162. Help you show the strategic value of IT for the long-term growth of your businessWe can Reduce TCO Footprint Power Consumption Administration Costs DR & Backup/Recovery Window Deployment Time Eric Hentschel 614-440-5823 ehentschel@datalink.com We can Increase ROI Efficiency Asset Utilization Performance Reliability Scalability Manageability Data Protection

164. We are an objective and trusted advisor to our customers

165. We are a deeply technical engineering resourceDatalink will remove the complexity and increase the utilization of your IT infrastructure assets at the lowest possible cost and help you show the strategic value of IT for the long-term growth of your business.