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.

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

■ Optimize ROI and control costs

Simply put, we help you increase the business value of IT. With a consultative

approach, we focus on creating a strategy for closing the gap between what the

business needs and what IT delivers. While it’s exciting to talk about the latest

technology, we know that developing a winning close-the-gap strategy is first and

foremost. It sets the stage for making better decisions regarding technologies,

processes, and people. And, it’s foundational to maximizing the business

value of IT.

Strategic and action-based, our professional services team works side-by-side

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.

We focus on creating a

strategy for closing the

gap between what the

business needs and what

IT delivers. Developing

a winning close-the-gap

strategy is first and fore-

most. It sets the stage for

making better decisions

regarding technologies,

processes, and people.

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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.

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,

resulting in better

utilization rates and

manageability.

Backup & Recovery – We help you mitigate

risk by ensuring continual data access for

priority business functions. Supporting both

local and remote backup and recovery

capabilities, we assure data

is available to support

business needs. Backups

are more reliable,

SLAs are achieved,

and management

is simplified.

Archive & Compliance –

Our archive and compli-

ance practice enables

you to manage the growth

of structured and unstruc-

tured data through policy-based

archiving and discovery capabilities.

We help you simplify storage, lower

costs, ease management, and streamline discovery

in order to meet regulatory compliance and litigation

support requirements.

Business Applications –

Today’s demanding busi-

ness applications present a

number of challenges from

both a size and complexity

perspective. Our solutions ease

and streamline moving and provi-

sioning storage, decrease the amount

of storage required, and improve utilization

rates. And, we ensure backup and recovery

solutions meet service level requirements.

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.

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Analyze – Our consultative approach begins with a

clear understanding of your business strategies,

challenges, and needs. Datalink assists by developing

a gap analysis encompassing infrastructure,

staff, and processes, and recommends

steps and solutions to close

the gap.

Design – Once the analysis

phase is complete, we

design a solution aligned

with your needs. Our

design ensures your

information storage,

management, and protec-

tion infrastructures and

processes meet service

level agreements and

maximize the return on

your investment.

Implement – Datalink partners with

you to schedule, prepare for, and deploy

new solutions with minimal disruption to

your organization. With a statement of work

as a guide and project management plan in place,

we deploy each solution using Datalink and industry

best practices.

Manage – System reporting services are

at the core of our managed services

offering. We can also augment

your staff with onsite resources.

Both options enable you

to remove the burden

from your staff, improve

productivity, and optimize

system performance.

Support – Direct,

real-time access to

Datalink support engineers

ensures resolutions

are both quick and accurate.

Serving as a single point of

contact, our support services

cover product lines of multiple

storage manufacturers. Consolidating

support services with Datalink frees up your

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.

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

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