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Choosing the Right IT Partner for Growth
Choosing the Right IT Partner for Growth

Choosing the Right IT Partner for Growth

  • Updated on August 19, 2026
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  • 2 min read

Merchants & Marine Bank shares why choosing DataBank as a strategic IT partner helped support growth, acquisitions, and long-term infrastructure planning.

Customer Testimonial | Scaling Your Business

Choosing an IT partner is about more than finding the lowest price. For growing organizations, the right partner needs to understand the business, support long-term goals, and scale as needs change.

In this customer testimonial, Stacey McElroy, Director of IT at Merchants & Marine Bank, explains why the bank prioritized a strategic technology partnership with DataBank.

As Merchants & Marine Bank continued to grow through acquisitions, the IT team needed a partner that could support expansion, help manage increasing infrastructure demands, and work as an extension of the internal team.

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Stacey shares why a long-term partnership matters when evaluating technology providers, especially for organizations that need:

• Scalable infrastructure support
• Reliable technology guidance
• A partner that understands growth
• Support for acquisitions and expansion
• More than a transactional vendor relationship
• Confidence in long-term IT planning

Rather than focusing only on the lowest-cost option, Merchants & Marine Bank looked for a partner that could help support the business today while preparing for what comes next.

Watch the video to learn why Merchants & Marine Bank chose DataBank as a strategic IT partner for growth.

Learn more about DataBank’s colocation and managed services solutions: https://www.databank.com/solutions/

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