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Today managing  IT includes...  Cloud, Security, Compliance, Video, Voice, Mobility, Networks, Storage, Support...  How are you going to tie IT all together?
   
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Keep Up with Your Users' Daily Demands... How 'Desktop as a Service' makes your IT Easy!
The need to keep pace with your users' PCs, laptops, and mobile devices, as well as the constant updates they need - while dealing with unrelenting IT security threats - has placed enormous strains on businesses of every size.

To keep up with all of their daily IT demands, businesses are turning to an easier, more economical support model - "DaaS" or Desktop as a Service.

Reliable and Cost Effective

With DaaS, your DataLink experts coordinate, provision and support your users' IT endpoints to minimize upfront hardware and software costs, enhance security, and take on the ongoing management burden.

Streamlined User Support..
  • Desktop Builds and Deployments
  • Support for a range of peripherals and mobile devices
  • Microsoft 365 and Google services support
  • Antivirus / Antispam Security
  • Data Protection and system recovery
  • Updates, patches and repairs
  • Hardware warranty
  • Remote and onsite support
24×7 Support
  • Help Desk, Network Operations Center
  • Remote monitoring and management
  • Hardware maintenance
  • Software patches and releases
Take the expense and daily hassle out of installing, upgrading and supporting your users' devices... Learn more about DataLink's Desktop as a Service.

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Meet the newest addition to the DataLink team... IT industry veteran Rick Woodcock
DataLink is pleased to announce that Rick Woodcock has joined the company as our new Business Solutions Consultant.

Rick brings 20+ years of business, technical and leadership experience to DataLink, in addition to strong strategic, operational and management skills.

Rick provides overall client strategic direction and consulting on business technology solutions and leads his clients' technology delivery and service teams. He also acts as a Virtual CTO/CIO to help guide his clients through IT decisions and provide them with customized technology road maps.

Rick's background includes several roles at NASA, including Range Facilities and Information System Branch Chief, IT Service Delivery, Cal Tec/JPL trained instructor, and support of the early Space Shuttle program, as well as Healthcare, Government, Aerospace, and nonprofit leadership positions.

Prior to joining DataLink, Rick was a Technology Advisor at Cambridge Federal in Cambridge, Maryland, where he provided logistic and strategic direction, while developing new revenue streams through technology innovation, consulting, and government contracts.

Among other achievements, Rick, a service connected disabled veteran, spent 11 years as Chief Technology Officer at the US Naval Institute in Annapolis, where he drove logistic and strategic direction, while maintaining transparent Service Delivery to end users.

Rick is a welcome addition... With his leadership record in IT management and technology, we're looking forward to Rick helping us continue our tradition of providing industry leading support to our valued clients.

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What happens if you lose access to your business data - for an hour, a day, a week, forever?
Depending on your business, the answer may vary, but it's not something you want to experience to find out - especially when it can be avoided.

Prevent the unthinkable...

We're here to ensure that your data - and your ability to use it - remains safe, no matter what happens. Flooding, lightning, fire, theft, equipment failures, natural disasters, sabotage and other threats can all jeopardize the stability of any business. Companies that fail to guard against them can experience catastrophic consequences.

Critical elements of disaster planning include:
  • Identifying your risks, threats and exposure - before it's too late
  • Determining appropriate risk reduction remedies and alternatives for systems and networks
  • Assessing the need for data protection measures, off-grid power sourcing, and secure off-site storage
  • Evaluating mobility solutions that can keep your people connected and your business open during an emergency
Safeguard what counts 

Get started by engaging DataLink experts to perform a thorough audit. Our specialists find the gaps and map out better ways to protect your business.

We then work with you to implement action plans that can help you get through a crisis without causing disruption to your business.

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Simplify IT Security... Aruba's '360 Secure Fabric' framework covers Your Office & Mobile Users
Aruba, an industry leading DataLink partner, offers an integrated security framework that helps fast-moving businesses reduce risk in today's changing threat landscape. 

Aruba's 360 Secure Fabric provides analytics-driven attack detection and response from the edge to the core to the cloud.

The fabric not only simplifies security, it enables network and security professionals to respond faster to cyberattacks, minimizing the impact of a breach.

Aruba's innovative framework encompasses...
  • Mobile First Infrastructure with Aruba Secure Core features
  • Network Access Control with ClearPass
  • User and Entity Behavior Analytics with IntroSpect
  • 3rd party security and network infrastructure integration through the 360 Security Exchange Program
Centered around analytics, the Aruba 360 Secure Fabric provides protection with IntroSpect by ingesting network and security data, detecting anomalies, and enabling the infrastructure to respond. The combination delivers a complete 360 degree pre- and post-admission discovery, validation, detection, and response solution.


Looking for a better way to manage your company's threat detection and response capabilities?

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Is your network reliable and fast enough for your growing business?
With voice, data and video running across your IT environment, you need always-on, high-speed voice, broadband, and AV connections. 

DataLink experts simplify the networking challenge by providing:
  • Network Assessments - Our engineers take a close look at your network elements, transmission and QoS levels. Their detailed recommendations enable you to make informed technology and business decisions.
  • Design & Implementation Services - Experienced project managers provide seamless migrations. Need on-site help? Our engineers provide ongoing Operations, Administration and Maintenance Support.
  • Wireless Upgrades - Beginning with a site survey, our certified engineers map out and deploy wireless access point placements throughout your office to ensure optimal coverage and mobility.
  • Switches & Routers - We deploy manageable, secure routers and switches for optimal quality and network protection.
  • Security & Redundancy - DataLink provides a suite of security services, from firewall services to intrusion detection and reporting. We also support backup and recovery requirements.
Today's businesses have to stay connected... Learn more about DataLink's connectivity solutions and how they can steer your business into the fast lane. 

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Whether you have an IT team or not, DataLink helps you keep up with new technology so you can grow and protect your business.

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