Backup Services

Optimize your backup and recovery operation for maximum results at every phase of your storage infrastructure.

Backup Assessment Services Overview

Our approach:

• In-depth, quantitative analysis — Driven by technology-led tools, our services provide you with detailed reports identifying restore bottlenecks and success and failure metrics.
• Qualitative data collection — Datalink conducts onsite interviews with key stakeholders in your organization, seeking information that will help us gain a better understanding of your environment. We know the types of questions to ask – and the level of detail that needs to be gathered – to gauge the overall health of your backup operation.
• Recommendations for next steps — After interpreting the quantitative output and our findings from our qualitative analysis, we will offer suggestions for using best-available technologies to improve your backup and recovery operation.

Benefits:

• Clear metrics – Measure the performance of your organization’s backup technologies and promptly pinpoint and solve issues
• Solid benchmarking — Recognize if your organization is meeting its service-level agreements
• Tactical and strategic guidance — Use technology-driven monitoring and data collection, combined with Datalink qualitative analysis, to improve operations and make informed decisions regarding technology purchases
• Compliance — Increase the reliability of backup and recovery in your organization and better adhere to policies that govern the integrity of your data

Technology-driven analysis

Backup service offered

• A kickoff meeting that defines the project scope
• Installation of the management tool at your site for data collection
• Thirty-day access to StorageScape
• Report generation with data analysis
• Findings document and recommendations for improvement

Backup Assessment — The backup assessment features everything from the audit, plus an additional, more detailed qualitative analysis by Datalink experts, including:

• Strategic guidance focused on improving your enterprise backup and recovery infrastructure
• Tactical recommendations spanning technologies and proposed solution designs, processes required, and implications for existing resources
• Roadmap for the future

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