Datalink Completes Data Center Relocation for National Law Firm
January 07 2014 - 10:15AM
Business Wire
Project Planned & Managed by Datalink’s
Advanced Services Team with No Disruption to End Users
Datalink (Nasdaq: DTLK), a leading provider of data center
infrastructure and services, today announced the successful
completion of a data center relocation project for Davis Wright
Tremaine LLP, a national full-service law firm with approximately
500 attorneys across the U.S. and in Shanghai. The migration from
the firm’s largest office in a Seattle high-rise to a nearby
colocation facility was planned and orchestrated by Datalink’s
Advanced Services team after extensive planning, culminating in a
Friday night/Saturday morning move that was completed in 12 hours
with no perceptible service interruption to DWT’s attorneys or
staff.
The project involved relocating all of DWT’s servers and
devices, along with email, document management and litigation
support systems, SharePoint collaboration and extranet portals, and
other firm-wide applications supporting more than 1,500 users.
Datalink provided project management services including inventory
and analysis of DWT’s data center environment; development of a
strategy document identifying migration needs, multiple downtime
options and associated costs; design and implementation planning
ranging from timelines and contingencies to application mapping;
and a 15-person day-of-move team to augment DWT’s in-house
resources.
These services relieved Davis Wright’s IT team of 90% of the
planning and project management workload directly related to
relocating the data center. In addition, Datalink furnished
consulting assistance for virtualization and other IT projects that
had to be completed before the move, including finalizing an email
failover system that was used to avoid an email outage while
equipment was disassembled, moved 15 miles, reassembled and
validated at the new site.
DWT selected Datalink to manage the project because of its data
center relocation experience and its familiarity with DWT’s data
center environment, stemming from a seven-year relationship that
has spanned design, sourcing, deployment and support of
infrastructure such as the law firm’s NetApp storage area network.
Datalink has also completed other engagements for the firm,
including a business continuity/disaster recovery planning and
implementation project.
“Our old data center was on the 19th floor of a high rise in an
earthquake zone with less than an hour of battery backup. We knew
we had to relocate, but we had to do it sooner than planned to
avoid a three-day power outage related to our building’s power grid
upgrade. We partnered with Datalink to make the transition on
schedule with minimum risk,” said Matt Beland, Director,
Information Technology at Davis Wright. “It went so smoothly that I
received 87 congratulatory emails and phone calls, with only one
complaint that turned out to be invalid. In my two decades in the
industry, that is unprecedented.”
“This project illustrates the ability of our Advanced Services
team to handle critical assignments for which internal IT staffs
may not have either the manpower or the expertise – whether it’s a
data center relocation, application and system migration, cloud
service or disaster recovery planning, or any number of other
strategic initiatives,” said Shawn O’Grady, Chief Operating Officer
at Datalink. “It also demonstrates the value of working with a
full-service provider. Sourcing strategy, architecture design,
deployment, and both technical and managed services support from a
single partner ensures a holistic view of all systems that is
essential for optimizing data centers to meet today’s complex
requirements.”
More information about Datalink’s data center relocation
methodology can be found at
http://www.datalink.com/Resources-Library/White-Papers/Whitepapers/Keys-to-a-Successful-Data-Center-Relocation-(1)
About Datalink
A complete data center solutions and services provider for
Fortune 500 and mid-tier enterprises, Datalink transforms data
centers so they become more efficient, manageable and responsive to
changing business needs. Datalink helps leverage and protect
storage, server, and network investments with a focus on long-term
value, offering a full lifecycle of services, from consulting and
design to implementation, management and support. Datalink
solutions span virtualization and consolidation, data storage and
protection, advanced network infrastructures, business continuity,
and cloud enablement. Each delivers measurable performance gains
and maximizes the business value of IT. For more information, call
800.448.6314, visit www.datalink.com or follow Datalink on Twitter,
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About Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Davis Wright Tremaine is a national law firm with approximately
500 lawyers representing clients based throughout the United States
and around the world. For more information, visit www.dwt.com
S&S Public Relations, Inc.Mallory Snitker,
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