The Value of an Experienced Data Migration Partner

Jeevan John, Regional Principal of Consulting Services on Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Many IT organizations take on data migration projects themselves, only to soon realize that they should have used outside help from the beginning. Moving business-critical data has the potential to cause serious disruption to the organization and requires significant planning to alleviate risk. Data [...]

EMC World Day One – Introducing ViPR

Datalink on Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Monday was the opening of really, three different EMC events. EMC World is an annual event held for the EMC user community, Global Partner Summit the annual update for the worldwide partner community of EMC, and the SE conference for the EMC and partner presales technical community. An estimated 15,000 are in Las Vegas [...]

Vblock, VSPEX, and Flash to be hot topics at EMC World

Kent Christensen, Practice Director on Friday, May 03, 2013

EMC World is upon us. EMC World begins Monday in Las Vegas. As partner shows go, this is one of the big ones. EMC World is actually comprised of three integrated events: Global Partner Summit on Monday is focused on partners like Datalink. Global Technical Summit for EMC and partner SEs VMworld for [...]

Datalink to Present at Data Center World Tuesday, April 30

Datalink on Thursday, April 25, 2013

Next week is Data Center World where over 1,000 data center and facilities management professionals from around the globe will get together in one place -- Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. I'm looking forward to reconnecting with peers as this will be the third consecutive year I'll be presenting. This year's [...]

Customer Driven BC/DR - Changing the Rules of the Game

John Richardson, Senior Manager on Tuesday, April 23, 2013

It used to be the only companies that needed real Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) programs were those that were regulated or heavily IT-dependent. If you weren't in that group, you could bet against a disaster occurring and get away with not having tested or updated your plan, and in most cases there wouldn't be consequences.

DOD Labs, IT solutions for healthcare, and more at Symantec Vision 2013

Datalink on Monday, April 22, 2013

Symantec Vision affords Datalink invaluable time with Symantec customer-facing teams, sales and product leadership to get clarity on future solution roadmaps, strengthen our technical training and better equip our field organization to help our customers maximize the value of their current & future investment in Symantec products.

Can you handle the truth?

John Richardson, Senior Manager on Thursday, April 11, 2013

A mentor of mine in the consulting business once told me that consultants have a “Golden Searchlight,” which could be shined on issues that had been either inadvertently overlooked or carefully hidden. But, once the Searchlight revealed an issue, it had to be dealt with, no matter how painful or embarrassing, so the advice was to be careful where you shine it.

For Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, know what you don’t know.

Alberto Jimenez, CBCP, PMP on Monday, April 08, 2013

You can't say you have business continuity or IT disaster recovery capabilities unless you know they work. And the only way to guarantee your capabilities are real is to test them. Many organizations avoid “testing” because of the “pass or fail” implications, and choose to use terms like “exercise” to [...]

The Biggest Amazon S3 Security Risk: Your Company’s Employees?

John Richardson, Senior Manager on Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Last week, security firm Rapid7 released the results of a scan they did of Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service), and the results have caused shockwaves around the Cloudsphere.

Why do so many monitoring deployments fail?

John Richardson, Senior Manager on Monday, March 25, 2013

Monitoring is more important than ever in this era of virtualization and cloud. Good performance data is critical to getting the most leverage from your servers while maintaining stability, and it’s getting harder than ever to work without performance data. As you build out your private cloud, you’ll find [...]

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