Datalink Earns Top Ranking in FlexPod & Clustered Data ONTAP Sales in the Americas
July 23 2014 - 10:15AM
Business Wire
Uses Unified Data Center Infrastructure to Help
Customers Drive IT Transformation
Datalink (NASDAQ: DTLK), a leading provider of data center
infrastructure and services, has been ranked top-performing partner
in the Americas for FlexPod and clustered Data ONTAP based on
revenues during NetApp’s 2014 fiscal year. Cisco and NetApp’s
FlexPod solution is a key enabler of Datalink services that assist
customers in IT modernization, private/hybrid cloud, and
IT-as-a-Service initiatives ranging from cloud enablement to
creation of self-service portals enabling business users with no IT
knowledge to request IT services. Clustered Data ONTAP® is NetApp’s
new storage operating system, used in both FlexPod deployments and
standalone NetApp filers.
Datalink has designed and deployed more than 200 infrastructures
built around FlexPod, a pretested and validated data center
architecture that combines networking, computing and storage in a
shared infrastructure combining Cisco® Unified Computing System
servers, Cisco network switches and NetApp unified storage systems.
Those installations as well as the sale of new and upgraded NetApp
storage systems have led to Datalink’s strong performance with
clustered Data ONTAP®, which provides the ability to scale and
operate efficiently across the unified environment by enabling
storage resources to be virtualized and managed as a single local
pool.
“Datalink recognized the value of our integrated infrastructure
early on, and developed the expertise and services to support it at
all stages of the IT lifecycle,” said Regina Kunkle, vice
president, America’s Channel at NetApp. “Their top-ranking FlexPod
and clustered Data ONTAP sales this year demonstrate strong market
traction for these solutions as well as their work in driving and
supporting customer adoption.”
Datalink has been recommending and deploying FlexPod-based data
center infrastructures since the converged architecture was
introduced four years ago as a means of streamlining IT management
and improving business agility. Because of that early start as well
as a commitment to helping customers upgrade to a unified
environment, the company was the first NetApp channel partner in
the U.S. to earn FlexPod Premium Partner status demonstrating its
advanced competencies with the converged stack.
Today, in addition to core FlexPod-related design and
implementation services, Datalink offers managed services and
OneCall unified support for FlexPod and other unified
infrastructures as well as an array of advanced services to support
evolving data center needs. Those advanced services span data
center relocation, migration services, business continuity/disaster
recovery, and cloud service management such as service catalog
development, cloud readiness assessment and overall cloud strategy.
The company’s dedicated in-house consulting team works closely with
the company’s infrastructure and deployment specialists to ensure
that recommendations match technology capabilities, best practices
and the customer’s specific business environment.
“Datalink immediately saw converged infrastructure as not only
an optimized way to architect a data center, but also as a gateway
to private and hybrid cloud solutions. Consequently, we made early
investments in intellectual capital to allow us to deploy,
support and manage these solutions for our customers,” said
Shawn O’Grady, Chief Operating Officer at Datalink. “FlexPod is a
cornerstone of our data center transformation offerings and an
important driver of our growth.”
More information about Datalink’s solutions and services for
converged data center infrastructure is available at
www.datalink.com/flexpod
About DatalinkA 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 or visit
www.datalink.com. Follow Datalink on Twitter, Blog, YouTube,
Facebook, and LinkedIn.
About FlexPodFlexPod is a portfolio of prevalidated,
integrated infrastructure solutions that combine the Cisco Unified
Computing System™, Cisco Nexus data center switches, and NetApp
storage components, managed by Cisco UCS Director with a single
console for bare-metal and virtualized workloads. Cisco and NetApp
developed FlexPod to meet the demands of business leaders who need
to consolidate IT infrastructure, save energy costs, host more
applications, and share resources across different departments. The
FlexPod portfolio includes FlexPod Datacenter for core enterprise
data centers and service providers, FlexPod Express for
medium-sized businesses and branch offices, and FlexPod Select for
data-intensive workloads. The portfolio is validated with leading
hypervisors, operating systems, systems management tools, and cloud
management platforms. All FlexPod components are orderable from
their respective manufacturers’ distribution or resale channel.
Datalink Press ContactMallory Snitker,
847-415-9300S&S Public Relations, Inc.msnitker@sspr.com
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