Datalink Launches Data Continuity Services.
Traditionally, disaster recovery plans have focused only on restoring infrastructures with little emphasis given to processes and applications. However, the key to a complete disaster recovery plan is to understand infrastructure needs and how they relate to your key business processes and the applications that support these processes. Understanding and planning for these three areas is paramount to ensuring continuous operations, competitive advantage and risk mitigation. Datalink’s new data continuity services address these needs by first performing a comprehensive assessment of your application and business process environment, and then mapping the linkages and dependencies back to your infrastructure to develop a complete data recovery sequence plan. More.

New White Paper -- Disk-Based Backup & Recovery: Making Sense of Your Options. Data and storage requirements are growing at unbelievable rates for businesses of every type. To help counter this, it’s time for organizations to examine the benefits that disk storage subsystems can provide in data protection environments. This white paper details four disk-based data recovery architectures and provides guidance on how to determine whether or not those architectures would be an overall fit within the IT infrastructure. The assessment of a solution’s effectiveness examines whether its overall benefits balance well against its human, corporate, and financial costs. This white paper offers in-depth insight on what those benefits and costs are so that IT professionals are armed with the knowledge required to make sound... More.

Datalink Celebrates 20th Anniversary. Datalink announced recently that it is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Datalink began in 1987 as a value added distributor selling disk and tape storage products to integrators for resale. In the 1990s, as end-user data storage needs grew exponentially, the company evolved with the needs of their customers to focus exclusively on designing, building and supporting storage... More.

White Paper -- Enterprise Backup and Recovery Methodologies for Oracle® Backing up and recovering Oracle environments can present unique challenges. A variety of technologies are available that—if used correctly—can assist companies in overcoming these challenges. This paper provides... More.

Datalink Podcast Series: Enterprise Backup and Recovery Methodologies for Oracle. Backing up and recovering Oracle® data presents unique challenges. How can you back up your large and growing databases within a limited window? How do you recover your environment in under a day, let alone a few hours or even minutes? Where do Oracle solutions work well for your business needs and which limitations can be addressed by additional... Listen Now. More: Securing Stored Data Through Encryption. Stories about lost data in the news coupled with legal and corporate requirements for safeguarding data are putting pressure on IT organizations to revisit the security of their data at rest. Data encryption is emerging as a key solution. The technology, which is typically deployed for the most sensitive of corporate data, encodes information so that it is unintelligible until it is... Listen Now. Also, Storage Virtualization: An Overview of Key Technologies and their Capabilities. As companies' information assets have grown, their storage environments have become increasingly heterogeneous and complex, and thus difficult to manage. The good news is that storage virtualization... Listen Now.