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The buzz surrounding VSPEX and Datalink

Kent Christensen, Practice Director on Thursday, May 24, 2012

There's a tremendous amount of activity at EMC World, and one area to highlight is VSPEX. On April 12, EMC announced VSPEX, a reference architecture integrating strategic partners such as VMware, Microsoft, Cisco, Brocade, Intel, and others. They provided 14 pre-validated solutions that are server-agnostic, and Cisco [...]

An update from EMC World

Datalink on Wednesday, May 23, 2012

This week, our team is meeting with customers and soaking up the latest details on EMC at EMC World 2012 in Las Vegas.

Introducing the new managed monitoring service

Phil O'Konski, Practice Director of Managed Services on Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Hi, I’m Phil O’Konski. I’m the director of managed services integration at Datalink. I’ll be joining my counterparts in this blog space and will be offering data center monitoring insights from time to time. Most often, my posts will reflect key considerations and best practices, as well as related conversations with IT organizations about data center monitoring.

Unified Infrastructure Scales Out

Kent Christensen, Practice Director on Friday, April 13, 2012

EMC recently launched (with the support of technology partners and distributors) VSPEX, a reference architecture that will initially include 14 validated designs comprising EMC VNX or VNXe storage and EMC backup solutions, as well as virtualization management, servers, and networking. We see this as a great announcement [...]

Datalink-designed private cloud will help health system improve patient care

Kent Christensen, Practice Director on Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Cook County Health and Hospital System (CCHHS) in Cook County, Illinois, wanted to boost the efficiency of their data center, but more importantly, they wanted their physicians to be able to quickly access patient data.

Maximizing existing storage

Juan Orlandini, Chief Technology Officer, North America & Distinguished Engineer on Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Many businesses have net utilization rates of less than 30-percent. But that’s not the only problem they face… unstructured data, inefficient reporting tools, aging systems, disparate protocols. I could go on.

Datalink Earns Cisco Cloud Infrastructure Designation

Kent Christensen, Practice Director on Thursday, March 22, 2012

Kudos to Datalink for achieving the Cisco Cloud Infrastructure designation within the Cisco Cloud Partner Program. By earning this designation, Datalink has demonstrated that we have the required competencies to sell and implement cloud-ready infrastructure across security, networking, compute, storage [...]

So you want to change your backup tool?

Juan Orlandini, Chief Technology Officer, North America & Distinguished Engineer on Friday, February 17, 2012

Our field engineers get asked some tough questions. A common one is: "how do I change my backup product from vendor X to vendor Y?" This is a surprisingly rich topic of discussion. It turns out that making this change is definitely possible, but it's not easy. There are a few reasons why...

Transforming Data Centers One at a Time

Kent Christensen, Practice Director on Monday, February 13, 2012

Congrats to Datalink for being the first NetApp partner to achieve its Data Center – FlexPod specialization. This was no small feat for field and corporate-based teams that are beyond busy doing their normal gigs.

Resolve conflict by rethinking your virtualization strategies

Kent Christensen, Practice Director on Thursday, February 09, 2012

I spend the bulk of my days talking to mid- and large-size enterprises about the virtues of data center virtualization. Migration paths often vary from company to company. Like anything that is transformational, barriers exist. Internal barriers fall into two groups: politics and culture, and new ways to think about IT. Virtualization also requires new skills.

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