Datalink Networks Technology Blog

The newly-hired IT Director at the California Community Foundation knew the organization needed a data center refresh, as its aging network’s reliance on a third-party hosting company had become too expensive and too limited. He partnered with Datalink Networks to design and engineer a new, hybrid cloud infrastructure that will scale with CCF for years to come.

The California Community Foundation (CCF) has served Los Angeles County for 100 years, stewarding nearly 1,600 funds and $1.7 billion in assets to address some of the core concerns of the community. CCF sponsors a range of competitive grants to other local non-profits in arts, education, health care, and transition-aged youth and housing and economic development throughout Los Angeles County.

We recommend Microsoft Office 365 because it provides you with the tools for your own unique requirements.

Do you have a good Backup Disaster Recovery solution in place to guard against disaster like a ransomware attack? Is it on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid cloud backup? 96% of SMBs with BDR report complete recovery from ransomware. A full 40% do not.
Join us for a webinar on Total Data Protection, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:00 AM PDT.

Backing up your data is like brushing your teeth: It's basic computer hygiene you probably learned when you booted up your first PC. But backup is not enough. Unless you can restore your data -quickly - after a ransomware attack or outage, your company is at risk.

The promise of the cloud has allowed business of all sizes to gain features and flexibility that were previously only seen in the largest and most sophisticated environments. These environments were the ones that had the resources to purchase and support these services. In recent years, this has all changed. Even a single user now can purchase features such as full groupware functionality, video conferencing and even big data, stood up and placed into production almost instantly.

We can understand how implementing modern unified communications revolutionizes our clients' businesses - because we're users, too. Our own organization benefited from the freedom and added flexibility our staff gained when we first deployed Microsoft Lync. And it's only gotten better with the improved UI and different deployment scenarios of Skype for Business - because every organization utilizes these tools differently.