Hi, I’m Patrick Dunn, a new member of Datalink and a recruit to the blogging team. Here at Datalink, my primary focus is on helping companies develop and implement disaster recovery and business continuity strategies. For my first post, I’d like to explore suggestions that will help you determine whether your data center is prepared to [...]

If you’ve read this blog for a while, you’ll no doubt have noticed that I’m a nerd thinly disguised as a semi-eloquent submitter of prose. Nothing should drive that point closer to home than the inspiration for this article. Today, while reading my daily torrent of RSS feeds, I came across a link to this [...]

Recently, a customer asked me for further clarification on a proposed storage assessment. Wisely, they’d asked third parties to give them perspective on the value of a storage assessment. The third party, an industry analyst, came back with four major areas to address: Properly provision storage Maximize ROI by devising a data lifecycle tiering strategy [...]

In a different life, I managed a team of professional services consultants. Part of my responsibility was recruiting these folks. For a while, I was moderately famous for my interview questionnaire, which featured stuff about megabytes this or tape speed that. I used this process to weed out resume packers. You know, the people who [...]

Most of this blog is written by my peers in Datalink’s practice management group. Generally, it’s not hard to get us to say a lot about a great number of things, so when we get a blog entry request from our fearless blog tormentor (hi Cheryl), we tend to be able to write quite a [...]

Greetings, friend. I’m Datalink Staff Engineer Rick Shangle, and I am pleased to have this opportunity to yammer with you via Datalink’s blogtwittertubesystem. What is a Datalink staff engineer? I’m basically one of our CIOs private engineers. That currently means doing intellectual property work for the company’s various technical groups – field engineering, customer support, and [...]