Datalink Corporation is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 data storage

Data storage device

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 corporation

Corporation

A corporation is created under the laws of a state as a separate legal entity that has privileges and liabilities that are distinct from those of its members. There are many different forms of corporations, most of which are used to conduct business. Early corporations were established by charter...

 with operations throughout the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The company engages in the design, installation, and support of data storage infrastructure

Infrastructure

Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function...

s that store, protect, and provide continuous access to information. It provides data recovery

Data recovery

Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data are being salvaged from storage media such as internal or external hard disk drives, solid-state drives , USB flash drive,...

 solutions, including local and remote backup

Backup

In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup....

, snapshot

Snapshot (computer storage)

In computer systems, a snapshot is the state of a system at a particular point in time. The term was coined as an analogy to that in photography. It can refer to an actual copy of the state of a system or to a capability provided by certain systems....

, and replication

Replication (computer science)

Replication is the process of sharing information so as to ensure consistency between redundant resources, such as software or hardware components, to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or accessibility. It could be data replication if the same data is stored on multiple storage devices, or...

 to companies to recover data; storage management

Storage management

Storage management can refer to one of the following:* ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager* Automatic Storage Management* Enterprise storage management* Hierarchical storage management* IBM Tivoli Storage Manager* OpenView Storage Area Manager...

 solutions, such as storage consolidation, storage area network management

Network management

Network management refers to the activities, methods, procedures, and tools that pertain to the operation, administration, maintenance, and provisioning of networked systems....

, virtualization

Storage Virtualization

Storage virtualization or storage virtualisation is a concept and term used within computer science. Specifically, storage systems may use virtualization concepts as a tool to enable better functionality and more advanced features within the storage system.Broadly speaking, a 'storage system' is...

, data lifecycle management

Product lifecycle management

In industry, product lifecycle management is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal...

, and storage security

Data security

Data security is the means of ensuring that data is kept safe from corruption and that access to it is suitably controlled. Thus data security helps to ensure privacy. It also helps in protecting personal data. Data security is part of the larger practice of Information security.- Disk Encryption...

; and solutions, such as fault tolerant

Fault-tolerant system

Fault-tolerance or graceful degradation is the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of some of its components. A newer approach is progressive enhancement...

 storage and clustering that are designed to protect planned and unplanned downtime

Downtime

The term downtime is used to refer to periods when a system is unavailable.Downtime or outage duration refers to a period of time that a system fails to provide or perform its primary function...

. The company's solutions include hardware

Computer hardware

Personal computer hardware are component devices which are typically installed into or peripheral to a computer case to create a personal computer upon which system software is installed including a firmware interface such as a BIOS and an operating system which supports application software that...

 products, such as disk array

Disk array

A disk array is a disk storage system which contains multiple disk drives. It is differentiated from a disk enclosure, in that an array has cache memory and advanced functionality, like RAID and virtualization.Components of a typical disk array include:...

s, tape systems

Magnetic tape data storage

Magnetic tape data storage uses digital recording on to magnetic tape to store digital information. Modern magnetic tape is most commonly packaged in cartridges and cassettes. The device that performs actual writing or reading of data is a tape drive...

 and interconnection

Interconnection

In telecommunications, interconnection is the physical linking of a carrier's network with equipment or facilities not belonging to that network...

 components, and storage management software products. It also offers installation and support services.

Services

AssessLink^SM - provides consulting services

Information technology consulting

Information technology consulting is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives...

 for the development of information storage

Data storage device

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 strategies and tactics.

DesignLink^SM - provides consulting services for data recovery

Data recovery

Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data are being salvaged from storage media such as internal or external hard disk drives, solid-state drives , USB flash drive,...

, availability, and storage management

Storage management

Storage management can refer to one of the following:* ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager* Automatic Storage Management* Enterprise storage management* Hierarchical storage management* IBM Tivoli Storage Manager* OpenView Storage Area Manager...

 solutions.

SolutionLink^SM - provides services for the deployment of new storage solutions as well as the optimization

Optimization (computer science)

In computer science, program optimization or software optimization is the process of modifying a software system to make some aspect of it work more efficiently or use fewer resources...

of existing ones.

OneCall^SM - provides technical support services for information storage solutions.