Compellent’s Storage Center is an enterprise-class Storage Area Network (SAN) designed to lower costs, reduce administration, provide high availability and enable virtualization. Our solutions uniquely manage data at the block-level, maximize utilization, automate tiered storage, simplify replication and speed data recovery.
Automated Tiered Storage and Intelligent SSD
Compellent is the only SAN that intelligently classifies and migrates your data at the block-level to the optimal tier. The result is storage that is automatically in-tune with your application needs. Using Automated Tiered Storage with SSDs can slash both storage costs and administration time, while optimizing performance and utilization.
- Reduce overall storage costs up to 80% by storing inactive data on SATA drives
- Lower drive counts and significantly lower power and cooling costs
- Mix existing and future drive technology in the same system
- Eliminate manual data classification and migration
- Manage multiple through a single pane of glass
- Showcase the savings over traditional storage systems using boardroom-ready reports
- Implement data tiering in a few minutes with automatic drive recognition and installation
The Killer Application for Solid State Drives
Apply the performance power of solid state drives to applications on demand, reserving the added horsepower for only the most active data. Plug solid state drives seamlessly into existing Compellent enclosures without downtime. Compellent automatically recognizes drives as they are installed and adds them to the appropriate tier. Implement an Automated Tiered Storage solution in a few minutes and optimize across multiple volumes, or dedicate your solid state drives to a specific application-the system manages SSDs just like any other drive.
Thin Provisioning That Improves Capacity Utilization
Compellent’s Thin Provisioning, called Dynamic Capacity, delivers the highest storage utilization possible by eliminating allocated but unused capacity. Dynamic Capacity completely separates storage allocation from utilization, enabling users to allocate any size virtual volume upfront yet only consume actual physical capacity when data is written by the application. And, with Compellent’s Thin Import and Free Space Recovery, you can extend the benefits of Dynamic Capacity to convert legacy volumes into thin provisioned data or optimize space utilization in Windows® environments.
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