The Datalifecycle® Company is an independent integrator of data storage and data protection solutions, focused exclusively on data storage and protection for over a decade. We leverage this experience, bringing together innovative hardware & software from a diverse selection of vendors and the open-source world, to deliver storage infrastructure that optimally serves our clients' IT ecosystem. We strive to use industry-standard components and products to ensure minimal vendor lock-in, and our approach not only helps our customers reduce capital investment and operational expenses, but also reduces the frequency of forced infrastructure upgrades. We also ensure that we are able to support our solutions for a significantly longer duration than is the industry practice. Our solutions are designed to be scalable for performance, capacity and redundancy, and address every stage in the lifecycle of data: from the conception and design of highly available data- storage infrastructure, to protection & archival, as well as secure disposal of retired and end-of-life data.