Datalink Acquires Networking Team from Cross Telecom

Datalink, a provider of data center infrastructure, solutions and services, has acquired Minneapolis-based Cross Telecom’s networking solutions organization. 

This team brings expertise in enterprise data networking, a key skill set needed when helping organizations virtualize their data centers. 

Paul Lidsky (News - Alert), president and CEO of Datalink, said that the company can now expand value to its customers.

Additionally, Lidsky said that companies continue to move aggressively to consolidate their server, storage and networking infrastructures. Virtualization technology is accelerating this trend, and it delivers tremendous efficiency and productivity gains for customers. 

Company officials were of the opinion that with the convergence of storage and networking, this new team’s capabilities will add to Datalink’s expertise in designing, implementing and managing sophisticated storage, backup and recovery infrastructures. 

The team has extensive experience designing, deploying and supporting reliable, cost-effective and secure LAN, WAN and data center infrastructure and security solutions for customers ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small businesses. 

As a result of this acquisition, Datalink is now a Cisco (News - Alert) Silver Certified Partner. 

Datalink will immediately assume responsibility for supporting the Cross networking customers. Over the coming weeks, Cross’ sales force will introduce Datalink to customers who need storage and data center virtualization. Over time, the company believes this will provide incremental growth to Datalink. 

Back in September Datalink had announced two new services to help companies more effectively design IT infrastructures for virtual environments. 

The services provide an end-to-end view of existing servers, applications and storage devices. Cross domain visibility and related analytics help customers identify current and potential performance issues, as well as make informed design choices based on Datalink recommendations.

While virtualization technologies have grown to become an essential component for driving efficiency in the IT operation, they often introduce the need for architectural modifications. 

Datalink services enable organizations to optimize the performance of their virtualization technology investments and drive better systems availability, recoverability, performance, and scalability.