Datalink backup assessment services provide you with in-depth analysis of the performance of your backup and recovery operations. You’ll come away with key information that will help you evaluate the processes and technologies that support your data protection strategy. Armed with this knowledge, your organization can more effectively hone in on problems and take corrective actions, thereby enhancing your overall backup operation.

Our Approach:

• In-depth, quantitative analysis—Driven by a technology-enabled tool, our services provide you with detailed reports regarding such things as restore bottlenecks and success and failure metrics.
• Qualitative data collection—Datalink conducts on-site 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—Datalink interprets the quantitative output in conjunction with our qualitative analysis. Based on our findings, we will offer suggestions for improvement.

Benefits:

• Clear metrics—Measure the performance of your organization’s backup technologies. Promptly pinpoint and solve issues.
• Solid benchmarking—Determine if your organization is meeting its SLAs.
• 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:
Our backup assessment services are driven by robust data protection and recovery management software, hosted by Datalink and powered by APTARE StorageConsole®. This proven technology is part of StorageScape, a suite of Datalink tools designed to help organizations better optimize their IT infrastructures.

Service Offerings
Backup Audit—The backup audit includes several deliverables: a kickoff meeting that defines the project scope; installation of the management tool at your site for data collection; 30-day access to the StorageScape portal; and report generation with data analysis. We also document the findings and offer recommendations for improvement.

Backup Assessment—The backup assessment features all the elements of the audit. Beyond this, Datalink experts provide additional, more detailed qualitative analysis, 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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