Datalink Upgrades City of Riverside’s Storage & Disaster Recovery Infrastructure
17 December 2014 - 2:15AM
Business Wire
Project Included System Design, Deployment
& Data Migration for Primary & Secondary Data Centers
Datalink (NASDAQ: DTLK), a leading provider of data center
infrastructure and services, today announced the successful
completion of a data storage and disaster recovery infrastructure
upgrade project for the City of Riverside, California. Datalink
replaced a five-year-old storage area network with new technology
that nearly doubled its data storage capacity and provides failover
capabilities between primary and secondary data centers, ensuring a
steady flow of information to the city’s 2,300 employees and
312,000 residents. System design, deployment and data migration
services were supplied by Datalink personnel.
The City of Riverside selected Datalink in a competitive bidding
process that included six vendors. The depth and breadth of
Datalink’s technical staff was a key factor in the contract award,
along with high analyst rankings for the NetApp solution that
Datalink recommended.
“Our objective was to be sure we had a reliable solution as well
as a strong implementation partner that would take the lead and see
the project through to completion,” said Lea Deesing, Chief
Innovation Officer, City of Riverside. “The fact that Datalink was
able to complete the migration on time, on budget, and quietly in
the background without any unplanned downtime is a real
accomplishment for a wholesale overhaul of a major backend
system.”
The project involved migrating half a petabyte of data from the
city’s outgoing system and deploying a NetApp FAS8040 storage array
at the city’s primary data center, a NetApp FAS8020 at another
location for disaster recovery, NetApp SnapMirror replication
software to maintain a duplicate copy of the city’s data at the
disaster recovery site, and NetApp’s Clustered Data OnTAP storage
operating system enabling failover between the two sites as well as
easy scalability.
The upgrade provides nearly a petabyte of storage that can be
either scaled up or scaled out, including the ability to move
workloads to any storage pool owned by any node within the cluster
to accommodate changing needs or hardware refreshes without
disrupting data access for end users.
The deployment was completed entirely after business hours to
avoid service interruptions. The Datalink team guiding the work
included a project manager, design and implementation engineers,
and advanced services personnel who handled the data migration.
Datalink is also providing technical support through its OneCall
service, which is staffed by two U.S.-based support centers to
ensure redundancy and compliance with service level agreements.
“Any mission-critical project like this requires an experienced
integration partner to ensure a smooth implementation. This is
particularly true when a project involves newer technologies like
NetApp Clustered Data OnTAP, which requires an advanced
understanding of migration methodologies as well as storage,
virtualization and network architectures,” said Shawn O’Grady,
Chief Operating Officer at Datalink. “The success of this
deployment demonstrates the importance of having a knowledgeable
services team to design, install and support new data center
infrastructure.”
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.
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