Partners

Datatrend partners with a variety of organizations to bring the best IT solutions to market. These partnerships include manufacturers, industry standards organizations, independent software vendors (ISVs), and more. See below for brief descriptions of our key partnerships.

ASCDI BICSI BroadSoft Brocade Carreker Corporation IBM

ISI Lakeview Technology Leviton Network Appliance Oracle Rackspace

Red Hat Verimatrix VMPowered VMware Vyatta

Association of Service and Computer Dealers International (ASCDI)
The ASCDI is a well-established, worldwide nonprofit organization consisting of member companies who provide technology solutions to the business community. Datatrend is a long-time member of the ASCDI and has served the association in many capacities. The ASCDI is especially known for its dedication to promoting and enforcing high ethical standards of business conduct within the industry. The association provides its members with many benefits, including opportunities to participate in forums which promote the exchange of industry ideas, educational and promotional assistance, and other services. For more information on the ASCDI, visit www.ascdi.com.

BICSI
BuildingBuilding Industry Consulting Service International (BICSI) is a worldwide association of low-voltage cabling distribution design and installation suppliers. Datatrend's Network Services team relies upon our affiliation with BICSI so that we can deliver world-class network infrastructure solutions for our customers. BICSI serves as a world-wide resource for technical publications, training, conferences, and registration programs. As a BICSI Corporate member, Datatrend employs BICSI certified personnel (Registered Communications Distribution Designer) on staff. Learn more about BICSI at www.bicsi.org. Click here for more information about our Network Services solutions.

BroadSoft
BroadSoft creates VoIP application software that lets fixed and mobile service providers offer the most advanced calling features to their enterprise and residential customers. BroadSoft’s customer base includes some of the world’s leading telecommunications providers. The flagship BroadWorks® technology empowers wireless and wireline carriers to deliver next-generation voice and multimedia applications and advanced features that increase revenue, enhance competitive differentiation and elevate customer satisfaction. Datatrend partners with BroadSoft to provide a turnkey infrastructure appliance that combines the BroadWorks VoIP application platform with IBM BladeCenter and System x servers running Linux. This solution earned the 2007 IBM Beacon Award for Best System x Solution. Click here for more information regarding Datatrend’s next generation network appliance solutions. For more information on BroadSoft, please visit their web site at www.broadsoft.com.

Brocade
Brocade is a leading provider of Storage Area Network (SAN) and File Area Network (FAN) solutions. With its comprehensive family of industry-leading solutions, Brocade is paving the way for more efficient data management throughout the data center and across the enterprise. Datatrend is a Brocade Alliance Partner. We include Brocade and McDATA (now owned by Brocade) products as part of our comprehensive storage solutions. Visit www.brocade.com for more information about Brocade.

Carreker Corporation
Carreker Corporation is a software application solution provider dedicated to improving earnings for financial institutions around the world. Carreker's integrated consulting and software solutions are designed to increase clients' revenues and reduce their expenses, while improving security and increasing the value of their customer relationships. Datatrend partners with Carreker as a leading infrastructure solutions provider serving mutual customers throughout North America. We deliver end-to-end solutions that integrate IT infrastructure (UNIX and x86 servers, storage, middleware) with Carreker applications. These applications include image capture and archive, image quality, image exchange and delivery, fraud detection, risk management, and more. For more information on Carreker Corporation, please visit www.carreker.com.

IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company and a leader in innovation with world-class products that lead the marketplace in price/performance. Our IT Products group builds some of its solutions based upon IBM server, storage, and software technologies. Datatrend is an IBM Premier Business Partner, the highest level of partnership available, and our solution center is certified as an IBM Business Partner Innovation Center and an IBM Data Retention Center of Competence. More information regarding IBM is available at www.ibm.com.

ISI (Infrastructure Solutions, Inc.)
Infrastructure Solutions, Inc. (ISI) offers specialized services in the areas of information services management; IT infrastructure assessment and planning; best practices for data center operation; data migration planning, augmentation and services; and a comprehensive recovery process for troubled information technology projects. Datatrend’s partnership with ISI has led to the development of one of the industry’s most thorough and valuable infrastructure assessment offerings – Datatrend’s IT Optimization Pro. This offering includes data collection, analysis, and reporting through the use of an "agent-less" tool which analyzes a client's IT infrastructure, including servers, storage, workstations, software licenses, networks, security, and applications. The assessment is designed to perform discovery and analysis, and offer suggestions to help customers realize benefits such as reduction in infrastructure and operational costs, improvement in IT productivity/efficiency, and reduction or elimination of security exposures and licensing/compliance risks. IT Optimization Pro can be used as a powerful planning tool for organizations who desire to regain control of their IT infrastructure and position their company for future growth. Click here for more information about Datatrend’s assessment offering, IT Optimization Pro. To learn more about ISI, visit www.isiisi.com.

Lakeview Technology
Lakeview Technology provides innovative solutions for ensuring high availability of systems and applications while meeting a customer's business requirements for cost effective operation and management. Datatrend and Lakeview partner together to deliver information availability, data replication, and clustering solutions to solve the needs of the information enterprise. To learn more about Lakeview, visit www.lakeviewtech.com. Click here for more information about Datatrend’s High Availability Solutions.

Leviton Voice and Data
Leviton is a leading producer of electrical and electronic products. The Leviton Voice & Data Division provides complete copper, fiber, and power network connectivity for enterprise, data center, service provider, and residential applications. Datatrend is a Leviton Premier Partner, authorized to design and install Leviton certified cabling systems. For more information about Leviton Voice & Data, visit their web site at www.levitonvoicedata.com. Click here for more information about our Network Services solutions.

Network Appliance
Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp) is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has pioneered technology, product, and partner firsts that continue to drive the evolution of storage. Datatrend's IT Products group provides NetApp based solutions that feature SAN and NAS offerings, as well as specialized storage solutions to address data protection, storage consolidation, storage virtualization, content delivery and security, and database and business applications. Click here for more information about our NetApp storage solutions. For more information on Network Appliance, visit their website at www.netapp.com.

Oracle
Oracle is one of the world’s leading suppliers of database technology and applications. Oracle’s line of database and business application products helps customers manage their critical information. Datatrend is an authorized Oracle Database reseller. To learn more about Oracle, visit www.oracle.com.

Rackspace
Rackspace provides managed hosting solutions for customers of all types and sizes worldwide. The Rackspace approach is simple - build extensive expertise in managed hosting and stay focused on the customer. This comes to life in Rackspace’s unique philosophy of Fanatical Support™, which guides Rackspace to go above and beyond customers' expectations when managing mission-critical hosting environments. Datatrend and Rackspace have partnered to provide integrated migration solutions that enable customers to experience a trouble-free transition to the Rackspace hosting environment. These solutions can include the migration of systems, applications, and/or data. Datatrend also helps Rackspace customers with upgrades of platforms, software, and operating systems from version to version, and the management of operating system patches, firmware updates, and more. Learn more about Rackspace at www.rackspace.com. Further details about Rackspace Migration Solutions provided by Datatrend are available here.

Red Hat
Red Hat is a leading provider of Linux and open source technology. Red Hat assures the necessary scalability and security of open source software and makes mission-critical Linux deployments possible. Datatrend is a Red Hat Ready partner certified in Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a reseller and technical consultant. Visit www.redhat.com for more information about Red Hat enterprise solutions.

Verimatrix
Verimatrix delivers software-based content security and revenue enhancement technologies in pay-TV networks. Verimatrix serves a global customer base of telecommunications providers, whose customers benefit with most favorable access to premium content, enabling the richest, most versatile viewing experience for digital video subscribers. Datatrend partners with Verimatrix to provide a comprehensive solution that combines the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for Internet Protocol television (IPTV) content security with a turnkey IT infrastructure solution in the form of an “appliance” based on IBM System x servers in a Linux or Windows operating environment. The result is a total solution that is fully tested and supported, and enables clients to leverage next-generation technologies that protect content and enhance revenue streams, while combating digital piracy wherever it occurs within the distribution chain. Learn more about Verimatrix and their solutions at www.verimatrix.com. Get more information regarding Datatrend’s next generation network appliance solutions here.

VMPowered
VMPowered is a provider of virtual server and virtual storage design and implementation/integration services that help businesses increase server and storage utilization, decrease operations complexity, reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and provide a greater Return on Investment (ROI). VMPowered provides analysis and planning for server containment/consolidation or new deployments using virtual server technologies from VMware. In addition, VMPowered provides analysis and planning for storage consolidation and backup technologies to help customers create a storage architecture that will service their enterprise and provide unmatched data protection and performance. Datatrend and VMPowered have forged a partnership to provide these solutions by combining the two companies’ respective strengths, as well as complementary solutions in the areas of high availability, disaster recovery, systems architecture, and data replication. For more information about VMPowered, visit www.vmpowered.com.

VMware
VMware is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry standard systems. VMware builds innovative solutions for the entire enterprise -- from the desktop to the data center -- to minimize total cost of ownership (TCO) of computing infrastructure by maximizing its manageability, flexibility, and efficiency. Datatrend is a VMware VIP Enterprise Reseller partner. We design and implement VMware based solutions for our clients’ x86 server environments to address their needs for server consolidation, business continuity, improved software development and testing, and desktop manageability and security. For more information about VMware, visit www.vmware.com. Learn more about Datatrend’s solutions by visiting our Virtualization solutions page.

Vyatta
Vyatta provides commercial-quality, open-source router and firewall solutions. Vyatta solutions combine the features, performance, and reliability of an enterprise router and firewall with the cost savings, flexibility, and security of open source to introduce new levels of economics, choice, and control into the network. Datatrend and Vyatta have partnered to provide a fully integrated, end-to-end solution that combines the Vyatta Open Flexible Router (OFR) and the IBM System x platform as a bundled solution running in the Linux operating environment … the “Vyatta OFR Appliance,” which is available as a “single SKU”, thereby simplifying the acquisition and deployment of the solution. Datatrend is a Vyatta Ready partner that is specially positioned to deliver this fully integrated solution based upon Vyatta’s unique router and firewall solutions. Visit www.vyatta.com for more information regarding Vyatta. Get more information regarding Datatrend’s appliance solutions here.

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